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Chainmaille By MBOI:
For those of you that actually read the weekly newsletter you already know this.
But the handmade artists forum now has a blog!
The address is http://handmadeartistsforum.com/ I bought the domain name a couple of days ago.
There's not a lot there obviously but I did take the time to put our featured members ads up on a members shops page, click the members shops link at the top of the page and see.

Now for the fun part.

I'm looking for someone two  head up this project. Should have some working knowledge of wordpress software. I will help get this thing off the ground but would like one or two of our blogging members to help me as authors.

This is how I see it working members can submit their blog posts by email to me and whoever helps me, we will copy and paste it into a post and voila you have a blog post. I don't care if your blog posts are an article about handmade, shop promotion, tutorial, show experience, whatever. The point is between our collective membership  we have expertise in this industry and this will be another platform to share it.

The purpose of this blog is not to replace the forum but to enhance our presence in syberspace.
I intend to promote this blog also but not until it has at least 30 posts and gets established. The possibilities are endless so I would like to open this thread for input and for volunteers. There is alot to discuss on this matter so lets here what you think.

enjoy

Jeanne:
Great idea.  What assistance with the Blog do you need?  I have no problem helping.  Just my way of giving back for all the great ideas I have gotten.

Jeanne

Chainmaille By MBOI:
Well first of all, what I need is ideas and participation.
Thoughts on color schemes, the theme I'm using is highly customizable.
Then I need someone willing to add posts that will be submitted by email.
Need ideas on pages and topics. The theme I'm using is the same one that I use on http://chainmaillebymboi.com it hads drop down pages for the menu bar so the site can look more like a website than a blog.

Once we get 30 posts or so I will start a project wonderful campaign to run traffic to the site to promote all the artists work.

The thing that makes a blog or website work though is content. So I need all the bloggers to submit posts to become our content. The content should be original, if you make a post on your blog but want it to be on the Forum blog also that's fine, but you should cahnge around the words add a litte take away some. Search engines are smart they don't like duplicate content.

So right now I'm looking for volunteers and feedback as to the direction we should go as a community.
This project is going to take a while to get going so lets hear what you think.

Manic Butterfly:
That sounds great Andrew-I'd love to help in any way I can, I'll try to shoot some ideas your way.

I'll take a look and see if I can come up with any suggestions  ;)

Chainmaille By MBOI:
Thanks Manic and Jeanne, I'm looking for someone to help with the writing and administration for this project. It would help if you have blogging experience and especially wordpress software. Wordpress is very user friendly and I can help teach anyone is wants to get involved.
 Now who is in?
Like I said the posts can be about anything handmade, your shop, tutorial, any type of article along these lines.

Thanks again

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