This page is information for the Art Works Downtown community on how this blog page works. The "AWD Community" refers to studio and associate artists, staff, board members, volunteers, residents and others.

A blog (short for "web log") is kind of an online diary, informational but easy to update. This blog is meant for the AWD community to share their news and any announcements of events, shows, openings, and other accomplishments and happenings, kind of a self-published online newsletter. Only AWD blog members will be able to post on the blog but it will be viewable to anyone in the greater community and will be accessible through the Art Works Downtown website so this is not meant to be a forum for internal politics. We encourage everyone part of AWD to contribute so hopefully you find the blog to be user-friendly. However, if you are uncomfortable with self-promotion or with technology in general, we can also make announcements for you.

If you are part of the AWD community, you will be sent an invite to join this blog. If for some reason you have not received an invite, please send an email here.

You must respond to the invite to be a blog member. If you do not have a blogger/google/openID account, you will be directed to set up a google account. You can use your own email address to sign up for a google account.

If you have any problems or questions, please send an email here.

PLEASE NOTE: You will need to sign in (upper right) to the blog page to make a post or comment. The create blog button is for creating a whole new blog, which you will find is pretty easy to do.

POSTING

Posting is easy:

Once you sign in, from the Dashboard page or on the upper right of the Blog page, click NEW POST.

From the Posting page, add a TITLE and write your text in the large text area. It's not necessary to use any of the formatting tools on the top. However, with the tools you can change the font, color and look of your post and also include links, picture or video.

You can PREVIEW your post or SAVE AS DRAFT to finish later.

Make sure to click PUBLISH POST on the bottom when you are finished and VIEW BLOG to see your new post.

CREATE A PROFILE

From the Dashboard page, you can create a profile by clicking EDIT PROFILE on the right hand side.

SUBSCRIBE

Rather than checking in, if you'd like to receive an email whenever someone makes a post, enter your email address in the right hand sidebar. You will be sent an email confirmation to activate this feed. Updates are sent out once a day, only when there is a new post.

Click here to return to the blog.