APN CR Update: February / March

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Published: Mar 6, 2014

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Last few months

In the last few months I've been mainly brainstorming about a new APN contest. I asked you guys for input, suggestions, opinions and I've created a poll with my own idea and the suggested ideas. After one week I closed the poll and the results were in. With only one vote difference my own idea won, so I guess my idea was likable! The theme will be;

World of Water

People seemed to be enthusiastic about the fact that there will be two different categories; Close up and Waterscapes.

It will be an 'all new' contest, so every entry has to be made after the start date and it will probably last for two months. I personally think one month is too short and three months is too long.

I do need a bit of brainstorming about the prizes, but I promise they'll be great! If you can donate prizes (features, llamas, other things?) it will be greatly appreciated! Send me a note or leave a comment if you'd like!

Next few months

I hope to start the contest in the upcoming month. I'm a bit busy currently with work, but I'll try to set it all up a.s.a.p!

I know I've mentioned the interviews about a gazillion times now, but I really haven't forgotten about them!

Is there anything else you want to see for the APN galleries? Or for the community? Any ideas, suggestions? Things, groups, contests or anything else you want to expose to a bigger audience? Let me know!

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DD suggestions

Please keep your DD suggestions coming. Don't ever think that you're bothering me or the other volunteers with DD suggestions. Remember we've signed up for this, we want your suggestions! I might not respond to them usually, but if you add a line that you'd like to know if I'll feature it or not, I'll reply to you. I don't want to give anyone the feeling that I'm ignoring them. I really appreciate every single suggestion I get. I respond to suggestions that should've been send to another CV as well and of course I reply to the suggestions that I've chosen to DD!

I love the cats that get suggested, and I really like all the hummingbirds and rainbows, but I'd love to get some Aquatic photographs suggested, or from the Geology category. And Funghi! I feel I don't feature those enough. If you feel I don't feature a certain category often enough, please suggest some shots!

I recently copied a poll from GinkgoWerkstatt, asking you if you suggest DDs. I'm rather surprised that some people don't know how to, since I believe we advertise a lot with how to, or links to the FAQs. Do you think there should be more advertising? Or do the DDs need to get a more prominent place on the site? What are your thoughts?

Did you know? - Suggesting DDsDD is short for Daily Deviation and is - like the name lets you presume - a daily feature of artworks from different the galleries.
DDs can be featured by Community Volunteers and Staff members.
Suggesting DDs
While browsing it can happen that you come across deviations that you think should be featured as a DD, but how?
First of all you need to take a look at the gallery it was submitted to.
You can find this information in the description area, directly below the artwork itself.

With that category in mind, we are now heading over to communityrelations to take a look at this CV overview. It lists all volunteers and the gallery they take care of.
Beside the overview at communityrelations you can also find the same list at :faq18:
For our example we now need to search for the Photography CVs.

As you can see there are plenty of t

This is a very detailed guide from GinkgoWerkstatt and it's very easy to read! And it explains very clear how to suggest a DD to either me, or any other CV that features DDs!