Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Use Usenet newsgroups

Task: Find a discussion on 'Google Groups'.Reflect on how useful you find these discussions.
http://groups.google.com/group/art?lnk=
this site deffinately fulfils its purpose because there is alot of activity going on.Also the content in this group consists of a wide variation on different topics e.g. watercolour painting or you can exhitbit your work: http://groups.google.com/group/art/browse_thread/thread/64cb7d2dc8e7e284#
On this site Carol Pentleton allows you to register her site and on her sitehttp://www.thedigitalartist.com she has a large amount of educational materials,including art education videos, career information,job postings,daily headlines, free monthly newsletters & articles about the business of art.

Limitation:required to join the site,could be annoying if someone just wants quick information about a certain topic.
Benefit:Registering is really easy.Requiring to register suggests they take this group seriously and don't want inappropriate information/artwork on their site.

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