November 12, 2007 10:58 PM
MyARTINFO: Social Networking for Artists
From a Canadian publisher and philanthropists comes a social networking site specifically made for artists, MyARTINFO. Although, the My+Niche Word branding is kinda cliché already, for Louise McBain it doesn’t really matter at all.
McBain established MYARTINFO as a venue for artists whether famous or lesser known to showcase their artistic work, chat with fellow artists online and even blog about, what else but art. MyARTINFO aims to assemble all artists, and even non-artists who are members of the art community under one whole network of people and art works freely available to the web consuming public.
There’s a lot of stuff being offered by the social networking site offers to its members. But of course the most important of which is the ability to set up their own public galleries where they can showcase their art work. Of course those art works should already be in digital form.
Other features of the site include, featured artists, highest rated artists (so prospective buyers could have an idea which are among the best artists in the site, new artists which spotlights newest member of the social networking site. Plus a slew of other nifty social networking facilities all yours to use for free.
Technically, the site looks pretty promising. In fact, it has attracted 810 users from around the world in its first few days displaying more than 5,000 works. Not bad for a highly specialize networking site’s initial beta stage.
We may not be seeing MyARTINFO to get that much headway as the more general social networking sites, but for advancing the cause of art and the artists, MyARTINFO certainly deserves some much needed attention from us, web netizens.
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