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Wow, this has turned out to be much more of a pain than I thought! I have figured out the best way to record the screencasts, but how to present them to you is the current sticking point. I am trying out Screencast.com and thought that was working, but the file I uploaded was an avi file and I had trouble watching it on my Mac. I’m now working on uploading it as a Flash file which should hopefully do the trick. If I was dealing with “normal” video that could be streamed through YouTube or Blip.tv or… any of the other video hosting sites, there would not be a problem. But a screencast has to be large enough and of high enough quality to see the words on the screen, hence the difficulty.

I appreciate your patience as I get this worked out. It’s been a great learning opportunity and will have to be the subject of a future series of screencasts!

Peace,
Chris

I signed up to have new posts sent directly to my email. When I received my first one this morning, I saw how incredible weird it looked! I accidentally chose a template and it came with a bunch of extra stuff by default. I just got done removing that template and when you receive this post in your email (if you’re signed up, that is), it should hopefully look normal. If it doesn’t, send me a quick email to chris@onlineartsmarketing.com.

The second technical difficulty is the weekly video podcast. I’m starting a series on customizing WordPress and it consists mostly of screencasts that SHOW you what to do instead of just talking about it. My first video is 122 Mb and needs to be viewed rather large (the little screen on the front just ain’t gonna cut it!). So I’m trying to figure out the best way to do this and will spend the whole day working on it until I DO figure it out. So keep checking back and I’ll make another News post, also. And if you Twitter, you can follow me at twitter.com/peacefulbirder.

Thanks for hanging in there!

Chris

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I spent a beautiful Sunday completely redesigning OnlineArtsMarketing.com and I am very happy with the results. There have been a lot of changes, such as:

• Categories have been streamlined and consolidated. I removed such redundant categories as “Art” and “Internet” because after all, that’s the whole point of this site! There are five main categories, not including “All Posts”.
• I moved the site from the /blog folder to the main root folder. If anyone goes to www.onlineartsmarketing.com/blog, they are automatically redirected to www.onlineartsmarketing.com. If you have any links to specific posts, you should relink because those have also changed.
• There will be three main features each week. Mondays will see the longer post on marketing, Wednesday will be the day I release the video podcast (soon to be on iTunes), and Friday is still the featured artist post. Any posts that fall out of the realm of those will be placed here in the News section.
• The RSS feed should work the same, but you might want to keep an eye on it in case it doesn’t. To be sure, you can always unsubscribe and then resubscribe.

The redesign is part of my overall plan for OnlineArtsMarketing. I will share that plan with you sometime in the next few days.

Peace,
Chris

I came across a great blog yesterday called Confident Writing by Joanna Young. Her latest post is about a group writing project where everyone that wants to take part writes a post about “My Love Affair With Writing”. It sounds like fun and I definitely have a love affair with writing, so I’m going to give a go.

I fell in love with writing when I was in elementary school. And not just the creativity, but the actual act of writing. I would practice my penmanship whenever I was bored and eventually my printing became very, very neat. I once was told that my printing could be its own font!

I also practiced writing what I thought was calligraphy. I didn’t follow any formal standards of calligraphy, I just created my own. I still use that style when I write on the envelopes of greeting cards and other “formal” situations.

This is not to say that I am not in love with writing for the process and creativity. Writing is satisfying on so many levels. I love the process of communicating with someone through the written word and it often seems that I can communicate more clearly through writing. As with Natalie Goldberg, I often feel that writing can be a deeper vehicle of meditation for me than zazen. Writing helps me reach a place deep inside of me that is often hidden from other forms of meditation.

I love writing.

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Chris O’Byrne
www.OnlineArtsMarketing.com
www.YourArtMarketing.com