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CR Newsletter January/February 2013 Director of Community Relations :iconmoonbeam13: :
Table of Contents
1. New Submission Process and Thumbnail Examples
2. New Galleries and Gallery Additions or Change Requests
3. Why Wasn't I Chosen?
4. Volunteer Openings in Community Relations
5. Community Projects
6. Official Contests
7. Project Educate 2013
8. Art History Project
9. News from the Chats and Forums
10. News from the Galleries
11. Vacation Notice
1. New Submission Process and Thumbnail Examples
In my opinion, one of the greatest advantages to the New Submission Process, are the thumbnail examples and descriptions that appear when you're selecting a category. It's no secret that we have misplaced deviations throughout the galleries and it's probably the most complained about topic I deal with on a daily basis. My team and I have been working hard to improve the descriptions and thumbnail examples for all of the galleries, and I'm happy

Fix that miscat! ~ Artisan Crafts V. Still Life Fix that miscat! is the first of a series of articles which aims to help you distinguish between galleries that are commonly confused or abused in the category system here on deviantART. Submitting to the correct categories here can make a huge difference to exposure and feedback for your work as well as features within the Daily Deviations so we want to give you the best chances possible! Let's get started with Artisan Crafts Versus Still Life Photography!
Artisan Crafts (Culinary) & Still Life Photography
DeviantART is a hive of activity with work from all sorts of genres and areas being shared and submitted on a daily basis. So it's only natural that sometimes, confusion happens. And there are a few pesky categories that are difficult to define and differentiate between. We've recently found that Photography -> Still Life and Artisan Crafts are a great example of this.
Still Li

CR Newsletter - November/December 2012 Director of Community Relations :iconmoonbeam13: :
Table of Contents
1. Happy Holidays and Merry New Year
2. Volunteer Openings in Community Relations
3. Community Projects
4. Official Contests
5 Project Educate 2011/2012
6. Art History Project
7. News from the Chats and Forums
8. News from the Galleries
1. Happy Holidays and Merry New Year
As the old year begins to fade into the sunset, it is customary to reflect on the passing year and make plans for the upcoming one. Some do this in the form of resolutions, some people make action plans, some people just swing into the new year the same way they swung out of the old one

Whatever way you intend to welcome in 2013, I hope you're surrounded by love and that you do it safely!
I've been reflecting on the year and like many, with some focus on the unimaginable events of the last few weeks. Specifically, the shooting in Newtown. I know that it's "human nature" to want to find

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Photography Weekly: Edition Forty FourPhotography Weekly Header created by ~TouchedD
"Creativity, like human life itself - begins in Darkness "
-Julia Cameron."
I read a very interesting article this week debating Photography Vs Literature and which one of the two tells us more. Of course there is always the element that a picture could be accompanied by words but neither aspect is enough to tell a whole story. But as the article says, Photography has become a universal constant in the world today and is accessible to nearly everybody. Yet many still believe that only pure narration can truly tell a story. What are your thoughts? As Photographers we can choose to limit what we tell or show with a photograph, we can even mislead. Can we convey more with words? Or more with an image? You could describe a person with words but never truly give an accurate picture of who they are visually without a photograph...

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Gallery Makeover ProjectHello everyone

Recently my team and I worked tirelessly on a project to help improve the gallery descriptions and thumbnail examples. While that project was indeed tedious with almost 4,000 categories in our system, it was also educational. What I learned from sorting through thousands and thousands of categories was that we have a lot of redundancy and a lot of categories that seem to have been created on a whim that are now simply homes for junk.
Over the years, the desire to appease niche communities and people who just wanted a specific area has led to some categories that go up to 4 levels deep, and it's really no wonder it's so confusing for people to figure out where to submit their artwork.
The conclusion I've come to is simplicity. While I'm not about to rip apart everything and make 6 stand alone categories, I do believe that there is a lot we can do to simplify the category tree. That includes some of the following:
1. Merging categories that ma

Introducing...CRPhotography

This weekend #CRPhotography has launched! ^3wyl and myself have been working on the group the past week or so, getting it ready and tweaking bits here and there. But membership is finally open, just in time for you to head over, join and get settled for the big contest which will be launching in a few days time.

Head over now, start submitting your work and getting critique e.t.c and enjoy!
To help you get started with the group, please check out our Important Information box to find out how we can help you, including submitting your photographs into the group, receiving constructive feedback, promoting your photography contests and more!
Here's a taste of what you can participate in already...

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The other week, a piece of my writing was selected for a Daily Literature Deviation. If you're curious you can see the article here. I was humbled by that, but my reason for mentioning it in Photography Bi-weekly is that *0hgravity then highlighted a website to me that I found absolutely fascinating. It's soul purpose is to highlight Endangered Languages through Photography. 3170 lens are capturing the people who hold the key to the worlds most secret languages. Once again something like this highlights the complete and utter importance of Photography and reminds us of how far we've come, and how much we can do from mobile ph

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Did You Know? - My Groups Page, COPPA

Journal Entry: Thu Feb 28, 2013, 6:16 PM

My Groups Page

Did you know that you can see all the groups that you're part of (either as an Admin or a Member) without installing the Groups widget on your profile?

You can do that by using this link:

http://****.deviantart.com/mygroups
_{(replacing **** with your username)}

This works for every deviant as well. Just replace the username to those you'd like to see what groups they are in.

How do I deal with a COPPA?

COPPA stands for Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, and you can find more about that here.

FAQ #696: How does deviantART comply with COPPA?

If the user admits to being underage in a comment or on their profile: do not point it out to them, instead, go to the Help Desk and file a COPPA Report.

If the user admits to being underage on dAmn, point it out to a Community Volunteer if present. If there is no CV present, look for one in #help and let that CV know where the user is admitting to being underage. If you can't find a CV, copy the logs and and file a COPPA Report to the Help Desk. While the report won't be accepted, the user will still be looked into.

Whatever you do, don't tell the user that they're underage and will be banned. This will encourage the user to remove or hide any evidence associated with their being underage and is counter productive to dA enforcing the COPPA law.

What would you like to know?

As we write this article series for you, the community, we would like to know: What aspects of the website do you want to learn more about? Or what can you teach other deviants about? If we decide to use your suggestion we will be sure to credit you.

Thank you for your input in advance!

Let us know your ideas through our feedback page

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=SingingFlames Mar 2, 2013 Hobbyist Writer

That's how to look up groups. I'd tried using just "/groups" and it didn't work.

Thank you for the information!

!bugsbunny825 Mar 1, 2013 Hobbyist Artist

No normal person would care anyways..

!nounouisawesome Mar 1, 2013 New member

im new here dont have alot of groups only true and i can use some friends so check me out!!!!!!!!!!!

$namenotrequired Mar 1, 2013 Student Interface Designer

Welcome to the community

This may help you: [link]

!nounouisawesome Mar 1, 2013 New member

yes thanks will you tell me how you think about my literater in my gallery scince you know alot in this department.

$namenotrequired Mar 1, 2013 Student Interface Designer

I don't know much about literature sorry. But the Literature Forum has a monthly critique thread for giving and getting critique, to the top of that page

That may help!

*i-Moosker Mar 1, 2013 Student Digital Artist

The MyGroups thing is quite useful, unfortunately it was quite a shock that I'm a part of too many groups... ahaha..

Thanks for adding in the COPPA information, quite useful to this community.

`The-Lantiis Mar 1, 2013 Photographer

Yes to COPPA info! So many tell the users they will get in trouble for being under 13 years old like someone can magically make themselves a year or two older. There should be a FAQ called quite simply "Avoid the Drama" and list the most common drama-creators with the resolution of "shut up and report it" listed for each one.

The same can be said for any copyright issues too - shut up and report it. It is so pointless when people point it out and just cause drama and arguments. Even if the person doesn't know it is wrong (same for underage users), they won't like being called out on it and most likely defend their actions anyways.