1-day workshop for artists, musicians, and small businesses

February 20, 2010
9:00am to 4:00pm
Room BC-246, Benton Center, Corvallis, Oregon
$105

To reserve a seat, dial 541-917-4929 for LBCC’s Small Business Development Center.

Corvallis artist, businesswoman, and educator, Pam Van Londen, will assist small business owners in setting up a freely hosted web site in just a few hours.

Agenda

• Overview: what is a web presence and how can you have a successful one?
• Demonstration: how to plan ahead.
• Demonstration: how to keep inventory to streamline the process.
• 15 minute break

• Demonstration and practice: how to optimize images and documents for fast-loading web pages.

• 1 hour lunch break (on your own)
• Build a site: Create a web site and add your biography and photos, documents, or movie links (using a free online service).
• 15 minute break
• Demonstration: 10 free options for promoting your new web site

Follow-up

• One free consultation via email (must happen within 2 weeks of the workshop).
• If enough students are interested, I’ll schedule a half-day catch up class for $30.

Student requirements

1. Comfort with basic computer skills. Please review this list to help assess your comfort level.
2. Access to web mail (bring username, password, and link to your online mail site).
3. Comfort with using a USB stick drive (also known as a thumb drive).
4. Bring in at least 4 digital photos, music files, and/or documents on a USB stick drive.

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Create an Online Presence workshop at Linn Benton Community College

1-day workshop for artists, musicians, and small businesses

April 4, 2009
9:00am to 4:00pm
Room BC-204, Benton Center, Corvallis, Oregon
$95

To reserve a seat, dial 541-917-4929 for LBCC’s Small Business Development Center.

Corvallis artist and businesswoman, Pam Van Londen, will assist small business owners in setting up a freely hosted web site in just a few hours.

Agenda

• Overview: what is a web presence and how can you have a successful one?
• Demonstration: how to plan ahead.
• Demonstration: how to keep inventory to streamline the process.
• 15 minute break

• Demonstration and practice: how to optimize images and documents for fast-loading web pages.

• 1 hour lunch break (on your own)
• Build a site: Create a web site and add your biography and a gallery (or other documents) (using a free online service).
• 15 minute break
• Demonstration: 10 free options for promoting your new web site

Follow-up

• One free consultation via email (must happen within 2 weeks of the workshop).

Student requirements

1. Comfort with basic computer skills. Please review this list to help assess your comfort level.
2. Access to web mail (bring username, password, and link to your online mail site).
3. Comfort with using a USB stick drive (also known as a thumb drive).
4. Bring in at least 4 digital photos, music files, and/or documents on a USB stick drive.

Create an Online Presence workshop at Linn Benton Community College

These links take you to new web sites created by attendees of the Building an Online Presence workshops. Watch the list grow!

Gorilla Grams Blog, Balloon Bouquets & Classic Decor, Costumed Delivery & Balloon Twisting

Dylan McMahon, Fine Arts

Carolee S. Clark, Painter blog, web site, collaboration web site by Carolee Clark

Donna Beverly’s blog, web site, collaboration web site by Donna Beverly

Rusty Van Rossmann’s blog by Rusty Van Rossmann

Procession of the Species (Albany) by Tia Swanson.

Herb Berman, oil painter by Regina Berman

Rose Gate Pottery and Boundless Gallery by Becca Lemon

Linda J. Edwards Visual Arts by Linda Edwards

Jan Maitland Portraits and Paintings and JanMaitland.BoundlessGallery.com, Jan Maitland

Barbara Levine and her blog, by Barbara Levine

Willamette Valley Farmlands by Ellen Hamill of Oregon Art Photos

Ted Ernst Pottery blog & website by Ted Ernst

Clay with Fire and Willamette Ceramics Guild by Steve Aulerich

Fibers of Faith by Cindy McNutt-Kaestner

Anita Cook Landscapes in Pastel and AnitaCook.BoundlessGallery.com by Anita Cook

Fine Fiber Press & Studio by Pat Spark and Kathe Todd-Hooker

SparkFiberArts and blog by Pat Spark

Noris Dairy, Angela Spalt

Umbrella Painting Journal by Diane Widler Wenzel

JR Young, PC

Create an Online Presence workshop at Linn Benton Community College

After a successful first run of my Building an Online Presence for Artists workshop at LBCC’s Benton Center this spring, I’ll be teaching it again this summer and fall. Instead of teaching it hands-on computer-lab style, I’ll present it seminar style so those artists and others with lower computer skills can spend more time asking questions and less time fiddling with an unfamiliar computer.

For more information, call me at 541-760-1449. To reserve your seat, call (541) 917-4929.

3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m. Thursdays
July 3- August 14, 2008
BC-244, Corvallis LBCC Benton Center, 757 NW Polk Ave.
$245

I will present the many low-cost or free options available to artists and provide at-home exercises to help you create a web site, gallery, and shopping cart ready for patrons around the world. Discover the online presentation and sales methods that work best for your style, schedule, and budget. Incorporate an online
presence in your art marketing plan to help sell your work online, make residual income, and
stay in touch with your collectors while keeping the process simple. Here’s a rough schedule:

DAY 1: Overview and how to optimize images
DAY 2: Explore inventory systems and try a database or spreadsheet
DAY 3: Explore Google tools and try Google Docs and iGoogle
DAY 4: Review blogs and set up one account
DAY 5: Review of galleries and set up one account
DAY 6: Review of affiliations and stores and set up one account
DAY 7: Present attendee web sites and discuss promotional options

“I’ve enjoyed your workshop and hope to incorporate lots of the ideas into my blog/website as soon as I have more time and develop more computer skills. I did learn quite a bit despite this being a difficult subject for me and I appreciate your knowledge and enthusiasm.”

Spring workshop attendee/artist