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ATTENTION ARTISTS, ARTS organizations and creative entrepreneurs - the Maine Arts Commission is delivering an online collaboration venue.
MaineArts.com will continue to be the state's official arts website; however, to help foster improved communications with our constituents, we are initiating online social networking. Our first step is the development of the Virtual MAC blog. Virtual MAC will be utilized as a place to discuss issues, share ideas and be an educational resource for the arts community. Agency staff will initiate a topic for conversation, monitor and contribute to the discussion, and categorize topics for ease of retrieval. A navigational page will familiarize visitors with the Virtual MAC blog.
The Maine Arts Commission is developing its blog in the same way that most artists would. Primarily our concern is a mix of usability, features and cost. The latter was easily solved by utilizing one of the internet's many free blog hosting sites. The features we sought included a searchable calendar, RSS feeds, a search function and the ability to add images, video and audio.
In the near future, our efforts will expand Virtual MAC's presence into other social networking arenas such as YouTube, MySpace and Facebook. This social networking presence will work in unison with the agency's official website, MaineArts.com, which currently has visitors from more than 100 countries. The website has experienced over 48,000 page views from November 2007 to January 2008, coming from 12,000 unique visitors. Utilizing other online networking opportunities in addition to the official website will vastly increase the exposure of Maine's great art and artists.
You will find the link to Virtual MAC on mainearts.com or you may go directly to
http://virtualmac.edublogs.org/.
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