Hello all of you who over the last 8-10 years have been generous to share your ideas, show reviews, tips and stories in the Blog here on ArtFairInsiders.com. During this time over 6000 posts have been added to this blog. Impressed? I know I am ... however ...
Changing times means even AFI needs to make some changes now and then. Starting today if you come to this site to add a blog post will you please instead post it in the "Discussions?"
I hope by moving the blogs to the discussions area it will make it easier for the members to read and respond and keep the conversation going. This is a test. Let's see if it works.
In the meantime, where would this site have been without you? I hate to start naming names, but I'd guess the champion blogger is Nels Johnson. Melanie Rolfes has really kept us up to date in recent years, Richard Sherer reports in on every show he does ... That is such a short list, I'm embarrassed to start.
See you in the "Discussions." Click here and then click on "ADD", write it up, then choose the category you want it to be in ... who's first?
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Bad idea. I like the Blog post format different from the Discussion section. Discussions are about posting an idea and having discussed. Blogging is about taking an issue and pontificating about it. I only posted a few things for discussion. I preferred to Blog about something I felt strongly about. I prefer to Blog about things.
Sounds like a good plan, Connie, but just to clarify...there will be a Discussions page and a Reviews page, so what exactly goes on the Blogs page? Has the Classifieds page taken over the Blog posts?
Whoops, I neglected to mention S. Brian Berkun as a person who we can always depend on to bring in a great review, mostly of Western shows, and we really need those reviews to maintain any kind of a semblance of this site being useful to artists across the country.
Thanks for that point, Judy. I agree with you and that is partly why I'm asking people to post in the discussions for now instead of the blog, so we can get the "good stuff" out there ... this site is about much more than tent selling and I'm hoping by reformatting the meatier posting will be noticed better. This is only a test.
Melanie, thanks for asking. I've just added a new category "Art Fair Reviews" and am looking forward to hearing your latest news.
I always thought there was a separate section for selling tents and panels elsewhere or at least it seemed that way in the past. A new person might get discouraged thinking everyone was going out of business from all of the selling posts.
I have to agree with Richard about the posts selling equipment. I land on the homepage, browse the left side posts, and most are buying or selling.
If someone new landed here, they would miss all of the good info.
So I posted a comment in someone's blog (that should have been a discussion) about mid-west art fairs. The system said my comment needed to be approved before being posted. So if that's the way it will be, why not tell us that upfront in this news that blogs are changing? Or is what happened to me a mistake?
Great! Missed you a lot, Barrie. Hope you and your family are well.
And there are plenty who write blogs when they should be discussions. I'm posting a discussion in a minute.
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