Here goes... a 5 point guide to replacing your webpage 'grey head'

First find an image (preferably a JPG) you want to use then Sign in with your username and password  (username is the last bit of the web address for your page and is usually based on your first name. You can also get a new password sent to your email if you've forgotten it)

1.  Click on 'MY PROFILE'  (to the right of Twitter, Facebook logos)

2. Click on 'EDIT PROFILE'  (to the right of your name)

3. Click on 'EDIT PROFILE ICON'  (on the left in blue)

4. Click on 'CHOOSE FILE', find your file/image in the menu & click 'Choose'

5. Click 'UPLOAD'

The rest is optional (eg. dragging a square across the image to make the small icon how you want it)

GOOD LUCK and thankyou for uploading Dotbiz!

Hi AA2A Artists 2011/12!

I'll start by properly introducing myself, I'm the AA2A national coordinator and I work part-time on the project with Wendy Mason (AA2A national director) and Jim Pledger (AA2A administrator). I'm also a practising artist, based in London, I work mostly in sculpture, performance and film.

Well that's enough about me, now you! It is an absolute pleasure to manage this website and see day to day the new image albums and blogs you're putting up.  Thank you if you've already started sharing your work, and if you haven't yet we look forward to seeing your work soon.  If you're already in college do let people know they can see your work on this site.  Also if you put work up  onto the site you're in with a chance of being our 'Pic of the Week' on the AA2A Twitter and Facebook pages (our weekly posts showcasing work from the AA2A Dotbiz networking site).  We have to tell you we've been absolutely spoilt for choice!  Have a look at this week's:
AA2A Twitter     AA2A Facebook

If you have any trouble with image albums, have a read through Wendy's help blog:   Wendy's image album help blog  If you're still having trouble just email/message us.

More about voting soon but if you'd like to see the winning AA2A artists of last year (as voted for by students/public) they now each have a feature on our other website:  Artists Features

Best wishes

Georgia
Email:  georgia@aa2a.biz

Welcome to AA2A and to our networking site 'Dotbiz'.

As a few of you are already uploading images (thanks for that) we thought we'd include a few notes on uploading and editing albums.  Do let us know if you ever get stuck.  We're here to help.

Create an image album

1. Select ‘Create new album’ from side menu:

2.  ‘Add image album’, enter a Title, Description, etc. (You can also edit ‘access’ – to control who can see the album).

3.  ‘Save’ and you’ve now created the folder that the images will go in.

4.  Add images to album, ‘browse’ and select the images you want  (must be under 1mb and a .jpg .png .gif) select the image/s ‘upload’ and when you’ve finished - ‘Save’

5.  Edit image properties - add individual title, caption, tags - Also you need to select one of your images as the image album cover, finally ‘save’

To make changes to an existing album

1. Go to 'Your image albums'

2. click on the album

3.  You can then choose to ‘add images to album’, ‘edit album’ (where you can change 'access' to 'Public', 'Private', 'Logged in Users') or ‘delete album’

Hi AA2A artists

Did you know that if your work has appeared in a-n, Crafts (and most other magazines) you are entitled to money!...

"Any visual work that has been published in a UK book or magazine that has an ISBN/ISSN/Barcode number on it is valid for inclusion in a Payback claim. This is even if that work is included in an advert."

You may already claim but just in case this is all new to you, I would encourage you to register with DACs and see if you can claim as it really is 'money for nothing'!  

The last day for claiming for this year is Friday 9th Sept 2011.   

If you've got any questions - please contact DACs directly: payback@dacs.org.uk

Best wishes

Georgia

BIG THANKS to the AA2A student reps!

There have been some glowing comments about students reps from the artists evaluations, so we'd like to thank them for all the work they've done this year, both in college and on this website. 

Don't forget students (and the public) can still vote for their favourite AA2A artist of 2010/11 until the end of the week

Best wishes

Georgia

Hi AA2A Artists,

Last chance to vote!

If you are still working/exhibiting in your AA2A college please could you encourage students to vote? Direct them to this site and every artists page has 'vote for this artist'.  They can vote for any artist on the scheme this year; you don't have to ask them to vote for you - although you can if you want!  Students who vote currently stand a pretty good chance of winning our prize draw, so there's something in it for them and it also really helps us spread the word about the scheme.

Public vote is also still open - don't forget you can vote for other artists too and you're welcome to tell people about that too/promote on your facebook page/your blog/twitter etc.

CLICK HERE TO GO TO VOTING PAGE

Happy voting!

Georgia

Hi AA2A artists,

Artists - this week you should have received an email about the 'AA2A Artists Evaluation' Please could you contact us if you have not received this: georgia@aa2a.biz

We've had a good response so far, so to all those artists who've completed it; thankyou very much! We really appreciate your feedback about the scheme and your experience, it genuinely makes a difference to how we run the scheme in future.

Thanks

Georgia

Great news!!

AA2A has received funding from Arts Council England so that we can deliver more than 120 AA2A placements in 2011/12.

The grant has come from their Lottery 'Grants for the Arts' fund.  This follows on from the previous GftA grant which allowed us to set up AA2A as a social enterprise organisation dedicated to delivering and developing the AA2A project.

So a big thank you to ACE and to all of you for your support.

Full steam ahead for next year!

Woohoo!!

Hi AA2A artists, student reps,

Great to see more images of your exhibitions!  Thanks to those who've put up details in the exhibitions listings and images of the whole show on behalf of others. Please feel free to individually add images of your work and more details about your project.

Just a reminder that each week we're choosing our 'Pic of the week' from artists' images on this website and showcasing it on our Twitter and Facebook pages - so a bit of extra publicity for your work (we have over 250 followers/fans) and another incentive to use this site.

Check out this week's pic of the week

Best wishes

Georgia