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Help Editing Your WomenArts Network Profile
General
Information
You can create a good-looking profile page by simply typing your information
into the spaces provided. You can use quotation marks or capital letters
to set off the titles of your works or to add emphasis. If you would
like to add boldface, italics, or other formatting features, you will
need to add some simple HTML tags. Read more>>
Please note that you must fill in the boxes for your Personal Statement/Mission
Statement, Current Projects Description, and Short Bio/History in order
to create your basic profile page. If other fields on the form do
not apply to you, just leave them blank. A photo is a great addition
to your profile, but it is optional. The resume and review excerpts
pages are also optional, but it is a good idea to have them online, either
as part of your WomenArts Network profile or as part of your own website.
People usually want to see that information before they hire you, and
you won't have to mail it to them if you have it online.
Click on any of the topics below for more information about them:
Profile
Status
Your profile is not visible to visitors to the website until it has been
activated by you and by The Fund for Women Artists. Once you have
created your account, you can log into the WomenArts Network as often
as you want to edit your information. When you feel it is ready
to publish for the first time, click the Activate button. This will
send a message to us that you are ready to have your file activated.
We will review your materials, and if you fit our guidelines, we will
activate your profile and send you an email notification.
After your profile has been activated, your changes will be visible to
other users as soon as you make them, and you are free to edit your profile
at any time. We will periodically review your edited files to make
sure that they still conform to our guidelines.
You can deactivate your account at any time by clicking on the Deactivate
button which will appear once your file has been activated. If you
deactivate your account, you can reactivate it by clicking the Activate
button.
The Fund for Women Artists reserves the right to deactivate your account
if we find that your profile does not conform to our guidelines or if
your email address stops accepting mail. We will send you an email
or attempt to contact you by other means if we deactivate your account.
In this situation, you will need to contact us to reactivate your account.
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Choosing Whether to
Create a Personal or Organizational Profile
If you work as an independent artist and also lead a qualifying arts
organization, you may create two profiles - one for you and one for
your organization. Please see the Guidelines section of the
WomenArts Network Overview page for more information about the requirements
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Email
Address Options
One of the main functions of the WomenArts Network is to help people
contact women artists easily. Every artist who creates a profile
page is required to give us her email address, but you do not need
to display that address on your page. If you use the anonymous
email forwarding system, people will be able to click on a link that
says, "Email This Artist", and then they can fill in a form
to send a message to you. The form does not display your email
address, but the contents will be automatically sent to you as an
email.
We recommend that you use the anonymous email forwarding
system unless your email is already posted elsewhere on the web or
you are creating a profile for an organization. That way, it
will not be possible for people to get your address from our website
for spam or other marketing purposes.
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Mailing
Address
We do not recommend making your home address available in your profile.
You should use the mailing address box if you have a P.O. Box or the
business address of your organization or manager. If you click,
"Show a different address" and leave the box blank, the
Contact line will show up blank on your profile page.
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Website
Address
If you have your own website, please type the address in the Website
URL box. Visitors will be able to click on a link to your site
that will appear at the top of your profile page next to your name.
If you click the boxes indicating that you have photos, video clips,
or audio clips on your site, then small icons will appear next to
the link for your website. These icons of a camera, microphone,
and video camera will let visitors know that these features are available
on your site.
If you would like to include references to other web pages in the
text of your personal statement/mission statement, current project
description, or short bio/organizational history, it is possible to
do so, but you will need to surround the name of your website with
the correct HTML tags. Here is an example:
If you want:
My website is www.womenarts.org
To show up as
My website is www.womenarts.org
Type the following: My website is <a href="http://www.womenarts.org">www.womenarts.org</a>
Be sure to include the http:// and the quotation
marks around the web address inside the tag.
For more information about the use of HTML tags in the WomenArts
Network - Go to List of HTML
Tags>>
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Personal
Statement/Mission Statement
The first sentence (i.e. all of the text up to the first
period) in your personal statement/mission statement will appear under
your name when people are browsing or searching through the network.
In many cases, this sentence will determine whether people decide
to open your page and read the rest of your information. It
is worth taking some time to make sure that your first sentence conveys
a strong message about your work. If you are creating a profile
for yourself, you should use this space to express your personal artistic
mission or goals. Women who are creating profiles for organizations
should use this space to enter the organization's mission statement.
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Current
Projects
Use this box to describe any projects you are currently working
on or want to highlight for visitors to your page. Contact
us if you would like to store a document on our site that
describes your workshops or performances. For a modest
fee, we can create and post Adobe Acrobat documents that
anyone can download to read about your work. For
more information, write to:
info@womenarts.org.
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Short
Bio or Organizational History
This should be a short bio or organizational history that someone could
use in their program if you were featured in one of their events.
Create your bio here so that you will never again have to scramble to
put something together at the last minute for an anxious producer!
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Using
Boldface, Italics & Other Formatting Features
By using HTML tags, you can use boldface, italics and other formatting
features in your personal statement/mission statement, current projects
description, and short bio/organizational history.
An HTML "tag" consists of a letter or letters
enclosed in a set of brackets. For instance, <b> is the
tag for turning on boldface. When you are using HTML tags, you
generally turn a formatting feature on with one tag and turn it off
with another. The tag that turns the feature off looks the same
as the one that turns it on except it adds a backslash after the first
bracket. You can use these tags in combinations, you just need
to remember that when you enter a tag to turn a feature on, it will
stay on until you enter the tag to turn the feature off. Here
are some examples of boldface and italics tags:
You type:
People will see it online as:
This is my <b>boldface</b> text.
This is my boldface text.
I am adding <i>emphasis with italics.</i> I am adding emphasis with italics.
This is my <b><i>boldface and italic</b></i>
text. This is my boldface
and italic text.
The WomenArts Network does not support every HTML tag. There
is a list of the available formatting features and HTML tags in the
Help With Editing pages attached to the Resume and Review tabs of
your profile. Go to the list
of available HTML tags>>
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Art
Forms & Type of Artist/Organization
You may pick up to five art forms or types of work. Organizations
may find that the Type of Artist categories do not apply to them.
You are not required to make any selections for Arts Forms or Type
of Artist/Organization. If you do not feel that the categories
fit you, we encourage you to write in your art form or type of organization
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Themes & Keywords
The theme and keyword fields are designed to make it easier for people
to search the WomenArts Network for artists working on a
specific topic. We often receive calls from people who are looking
for artists to include in conferences or other events on particular
issues. We want to make it as easy as possible for these people
to find and hire women artists. Also, we want to encourage collaborations
between artists who are working on similar issues by making it easier
for them to find each other.
If your work addresses particular issues or if you are interested in working
on specific issues in the future, we encourage you to make selections
from our list of themes and also to fill in keywords. If these fields
do not apply to you, you can leave them blank.
We want people to find you, even if they do not search on
the exact keywords you have entered. The list of themes is designed
to address this problem.
For instance, if someone did a keyword search on 'breast
cancer', your profile would show up if you had listed 'breast cancer'
in your keywords or mentioned it anywhere else on your profile page.
However, if someone did a search on the word 'health', you would not come
up unless you had mentioned the word 'health' in addition to 'breast cancer'
on your page. If you click on the theme 'Health/Medicine' in addition
to using the words 'breast cancer' as keywords or elsewhere in your answers,
then you will show up whenever anyone searches on health themes.
We realize that the list of themes is not all-inclusive, and so we encourage
you to enter keywords as well as themes. Remember that when someone
does a keyword search in the WomenArts Network, the program will search
through all of the text you have entered in your profile to find that
keyword in addition to looking in the keyword and theme fields.
So you don't need to worry about having a long list of keywords.
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Search
Engines and Your Page
Your
page will show up in Google and other searches, but it may take 4 to 6
weeks after your page has been activated. Material is gathered for
the search engine programs by "robot" programs that go from
page to page on the internet keeping track of the words on each page.
When you create a new page, it takes awhile for the robots to find it
so that it shows up in searches for your name or other words found on
your pages.
Many search engines focus on a part of each web page called
the "meta tags" that you don't see unless you are looking at
the Hypertext Markup Language source code for the page. The WomenArts
Network program creates a "Keyword" meta tag when you save
your profile page that consists of your name and your themes, keywords,
and geographic region.
If you want to see these keyword meta tags, go to your page with your
browser (or click on View My Profile) and then go to the "View"
menu in your browser or right-click on the page. You will see a
menu item that says 'View HTML Source" or something similar.
Click on that and you will see all the code for your page. The meta
tags are in the top section of the page. Back
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