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Engaging with young people on Deviantart?
OK, this is a new one for me -- young women at an art group I'm assisting with (they brought me in for the webcomics/manga angle) want to engage on Deviantart! I've gone through the usual set-up and establish process -- an interesting experience because you have to "become a deviant" to join, ha ha -- friended, commented, added some content, the usual.
Language issues aside, I was wondering if anyone else has any hints/tips/ideas/things to watch out for about engaging on online art communities? Deviantart have a really solid etiquette page which lays out their expectations of behaviour from users, but I was more interested in expectations of interaction, etc.
Somewhere to go now I'm feeling a bit bored by Facebook, anyway, neh!
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Comment by Dave Danis on October 5, 2010 at 19:22 -
That sounds pretty interesting, keep us updated. Whats the age range of these artists? Preparing your participants to receive both constructive and non-constructive feedback. This can become a great opportunity for them to network and create their online image, if art is the field they wish to pursue. I'm not too familiar with this domain, so my feedback is quite limited.
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Comment by DK on October 6, 2010 at 16:31 -
Haven't got any tips other than to listen to a podcast we did with their Director of community operations last year :
http://www.mediasnackers.com/2009/04/ms-podcast136/ - good luck with the project :-)
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Comment by Jeremy Day on October 7, 2010 at 11:18 -
Thx DK, interesting chat about how Deviantart differs from other social networks there. I'm already getting the feel that it's much more akin to something like Etsy or Threadless than a more traditional all-stream social network.
Dave, it's a full youth group (8-19) but the Deviant Art users seem to be the mid-teens. They're all manga comics fans, and it's a mixed language group so cartoons/drawings are a big aid to communication
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