Artician's official blog is now here! "Artician Labs" is built on the new and upcoming groups platform that will be released on Artician within the next few weeks. Artician's blog will take place of the previous method of making global announcements through the discussion forum. Artician Labs aims to inform users of new features, and important announcements on Artician, and will be updated regularly. We will also be allowing public user participation in providing feedback and suggestions.

We hope that Artician Labs will provide a more profound environment for Artician staff to collaborate, as well as a friendlier method of keeping the community up to date.

We have done our best to migrate over existing posts and comments from the announcements forum, but due to some complications, some data could not be ported over. Either way, a fresh new start is always a good thing.

We've been notified of some minor spam related incidents. We will be working very hard to fight spam and bots from being able to abuse Artician, and it's members. This is something that comes with large amounts of traffic, and we just have to do our best to deal with it.

What should I do if I see or receive spam related content?
Please report the content right away. We have a "Report" button on nearly every piece of content. Comments, Submissions, Private Messages, Userpages....This will notify the correct authorities on Artician. Please do not send administrators private messages, or email us. The report system was built to efficiently deal with these types of things.

Thanks for everyone's cooperation!

You asked, we listened. Artician is working on literary support for submitting all kinds of writing and text based media. We will post updates in this topic, but we decided to announce it since we were receiving so many questions and emails about it. We hope to encourage and support literary talent, and will do our very best to attend to the needs of this creative crowd. Thanks for your feedback! First step for us is developing the category system. Once we have a rough draft, we will post here for additions, suggestions, and feedback from the community... Keep on rockin! :)

http://chris.pirillo.com/what-web-communit...do-artists-use/

"I’ve long believed that creativity is the pinnacle of intelligence… to take something that is in your head and create something that the rest of the world can enjoy. It just doesn’t get better than that. I’m not creative in the least. I just sit here and talk and wave my hands around! Luckily, I have many friends who are creative.

So how do artists connect online? I’m glad you asked! A creative friend of mine recently started a new website called Artician for just this purpose. Artician is a new community for creative professionals! They make it easy for anyone to build, manage and customize their portfolio. They also promote and feature creative talent… showing your work to the World!"....Read More

Artician Scouts?

As Artician grows (very quickly) we are looking to create a new group of user status'. This user group will be known and referred to as "Artician Scouts". Sounds interesting, you may say to yourself...what's it all about?

Artician is growing, Fast.

Because Artician is growing so rapidly, it is becoming quite difficult for Artician developers, and even Artician Moderators to keep an eye on all the wonderful talent that Artician has been receiving lately. At this point, thousands of new submissions are coming in daily, and we want to give everyone a chance to shine, especially if they really deserve it. To ensure that no one goes unnoticed, we will do what it takes to keep pushing forth talent, and providing recognition to those diligent hard-working artists, designers, and photographers in the Artician community.

So, how are we going to do this?

A new team will be assembled on Artician to be known as "Artician Scouts". The primary task of this newly accumulated team will to be seek out talented work found on Artician, as well as other community oriented tasks which are listed below. We hope that by creating a large team of scouts we could expand our seeking ability to provide recognition to artists who would otherwise be lost in the mix. Artician is dedicated to finding alternatives in creative promotion rather than just relying on programmatic algorithms to "find talent, popular users, and good content". In retrospect, we anticipate a preliminary scout team starting out with about 25-30 people..

What will Scouts do?

• Will have methods to browse content on a mass scale.
• Will be able to influence a featured status on a submission by adding it to a que for further review.
• Will be able to moderate content on a basic level, such as "Flag, as mature", or "Correct a category".
• Will have the responsibility to be involved with the community, welcome to new users, and guide them with they need help.
• Users who are a part of the Scout team will be recognized as such by their account status.

Sounds cool, I'd like to join...

Artician Scouts will be in effect by the end of March 2009. We will be open to accepting users to be a part of the Scout team. The primary attribute we will be looking for is dedication. If you've been on Artician for a little while, you simply have a better chance of joining the Artician Scout team. However, we've seen plenty of new users who took Artician by storm, and have just be a pleasure to see all around the site. Friendly, patient, influential, and helpful are all keywords that describe a member of the Scout team..

I have an idea!

If you do, then we want to hear it! Our concepts are fresh, and ready for molding. We would love to hear feedback and suggestions that would improve the formation, organization, and goals of the Artician Scout team. Even if you have other, yet relevant ideas for promoting users, and talent found Artician - we totally are all ears..

So, with that said, we will soon begin working on this new platform for Artician Scouts, and you will certainly know the difference. As much as us developers love being involved with the community, we need help from you :) Like I always say... Community, you are awesome.

Hello every body! It has come to our attention that some of our users have been getting spammed through their private messaging system. We would like you to know that we ARE aware of the problem and are working to get this straightened out as I am typing this message.

Please continue to report any forms of spam or harrassment so it can be dealt with right away!

Thank you and have a great day!

Artician Pro is Here!

(Below is an edited version of our welcome message to Pro Users)
Take advantage of Artician Pro features, as well as the removal of annoying advertisements from Artician, and anyone who views your content / portfolio. Artician Pro users entitled to additional exposure, which you will notice around the the rest of the site, and anytime we update Artician Pro and it's features you will automatically be eligible to use them. We plan to continue adding, improving and assembling new and exciting features to keep Artician Pro up to date and perpetually serving your needs as a creative professional.

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Here are some things we're keeping in mind to make Artician Pro as useful as possible to you.

• We know you have clients or other outside crowds that will be looking at your work. That's why we focus on presenting your work in the most efficient and professional way possible - without all fluffy stuff.


• Being a creative professional is no easy task, and requires much time and effort. We make it quick and easy to maintain your work, so you can focus on what you do best.


• We all have our ups and downs, and sometimes all it takes is a little extra inspiration to complete a project with full satisfaction. Now you can browse artician with 150 thumbnails per page so you can soak up all the inspiration you need to get that spark.


• Communicating with other Artician Pro's is essential. Collaboration, teamwork, and feedback is what will be pushing you to the top. Here in the forums, you can privately discuss with other Artician Pro users to get the premium advice you've been looking for all along.


• Getting recognition and exposure these days, is like trying to make your own parachute in mid-air while skydiving. You can't keep up, and eventually you're gonna' crash. Artician does it's unrivaled best to promote YOU and your work - above all the rest.

...We are not done yet either!

Artician Developers are working around the clock to perpetually improve Artician Pro. Not only to scale and deliver, but to meet the real needs of Creative Professionals around the globe. We will continue to listen to your feedback and implement your ideas to ensure that Artician Pro isn't just something that is "nice to have", but something that you can rely on to cater to your professional needs.

As we get ready for second phase promotion, we have released another very beneficial utility for new users of Artician. The Artician Wizard is a simple guided, step by step process that helps newcomers easily populate primary profile information and user content to their profile. Once a new user signs up on Artician, they are immediately guided to the wizard. Because it is optional, the user can also choose to skip the wizard at any point.

We hope this help get new Artician users started with their basic profile information.

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(The overall process shows one stage at a time, with a sleek horizontal scrolling effect)

Just a small update that I'm sure everyone would be glad to hear about. We've been getting a rapid pace of submissions and are now up to 25,000! Congrats to the Artician community for all the support!

We hope to see the numbers to continue to grow because to put it simply, our servers are hungry! So far, Artician's infrastructure and platform has been scaling better then we had hoped, our server's aren't even breaking a sweat! You know what that means right? Yepp.... I can haz submissions?

Keep em' coming folks!

There are so many more features to come, you have no idea.

Hey everyone!

Just wanted to announce some new features before we move into second phase promotion, which will be happening very very soon!

We have just released a powerful new invite system that allows you to invite friends and contacts from a vast selection of email service providers and social networks alike. The new viral invite system provides the ability to login to any of the services shown below to retrieve a list of your contacts. After doing so, you can select which contacts or friends you'd like to invite. Artician will automatically send them an email invitation, OR if you are using a social network, it will send them a private message on that network.

We encourage everyone to invite their friends, or anyone that would find Artician beneficial

Invite Your Friends!

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