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The ability to share ideas
via the Internet is providing users an unrivaled vehicle for
creative expression. No longer dependent upon publishers, mass
media, and other traditional distribution channels, thousands of
artists, writers, poets, scientists, musicians, students, and
others are making their work available to others around the
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The existing latent creative talent
surfacing in the exchanges of the Internet confirms that as
individuals we have not yet become nearly as passive or
simple-minded as critics of our society, and our education
system, would lead us to believe. On the contrary, given this
vehicle for being heard, individuals of all ages are engaging
in complex, educational, and highly creative interchanges. As
people, together learn to become more creative, the Internet
provides them a mechanism through which they can share their
enthusiasm and discoveries with others.
Here are the advantages of having an
online presence:
- This site gives you the opportunity
to share your creative work with the global population.
Rather than relying on exposure only in the Ottawa Valley
or Canada, through this site you can gain world wide
exposure for your ideas and talent.
- You will be joining a network of
community artists who can work together to bring art
enthusiasts into our community, studios and shops. The
trickle down effect of tourist populations visiting our
communities can be felt throughout the entire economic
strata of the community and lots of people and businesses
benefit.
- Every painting or piece that you
sell for yourself, by yourself, rather than relying on a
gallery, which charges consignment fees and commissions,
increases your bottom line.
- Many galleries have websites, and
would consider linking to your page on the Rideau Valley
Artists Website. This would give your work added exposure,
as space on a gallery site is at a premium due to the
large number of artists a gallery represents.
- The internet is no longer in its
infancy, and has proven to be a valuable reference,
promotional, and sales tool. The concept for this site is
to use it to promote artists and artisans in the Rideau
Valley area, Grenville Leeds and Lanark Counties, and the
Rideau Lakes areas. We need a tool which will invite
people to come out and see us, to take a country drive on
a fine Sunday morning, armed with the knowledge of what
they will find if they take the time to drive in our
direction. We have to invite them and let them know how
much fun they will have if they come this way. That is
what this site is all about. To let the people in Ottawa,
Hull, Montreal, Toronto, Canada and the rest of the world,
know that we are more than just simple country folk
artists.
- Within the internet community, sites
and companies welcome a concept called reciprocal linking.
This is when two sites each agree to post the other site's
linking banner. This creates a traffic exchange between
the sites and is called affiliation. Every attempt will be
made to have this site affiliated with such sites as: the
National Capital Commission, Tourism Ontario, Tourism
Canada, the National Gallery and so on. That is the scale
we want to be on. That is how to reach people and bring
traffic on to our site. We all know we are here and we
have a lot to offer. We have to let the rest of the world
know.
The author, editor and webmaster of
this site, Eleanor Binder, gained her Web Development and Web
Design education at Computech Career College in Ottawa,
Ontario. With 3 years of experience at three established
internet companies, Eleanor 's interest in art and artists
drives her ambition to represent the Arts community on the
web. She has been involved with Fine Arts and
Photography for all of her adult life. To view
Eleanor's own art work,
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Revised: June 28, 2007
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