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How To Videos

Welcome to the Library of How To Videos for archiveThing. 

This is a custom site designed and built with artists and creative practitioners in mind. Some functionalities will be familiar to you and others have been developed specifically to give space to art and design practices. 

We will continue to add to this Library. Pop back if you need a refresher on how to do something specific. 

If we have missed something, please send an email to Michelle, Barbara and Barry. 

Thanks all!

 

How To - Login and Edit Artist Bio in MY STUDIO section

HOW TO LOGIN to MY STUDIO

This video shows you how to LOG IN (from the main archivething.com site).

Using the Artist Login Button and follow the walk through in the video.

This video also shows how to EDIT your MY BIO section.

archiveThing - How To - Recommend a colleague to join archiveThing community

HOW TO Recommend a colleague to join the archiveThing Community.

It is easy. Login to My Studio, and select the tab "Recommend an artist to archiveThing". Fill out the form with their name and email and we will receive a notification that you have made a recommendation.

We then send a custom email to your colleague with instructions on how to create an account. The custom email indicates that YOU invited your COLLEAGUE. They will then see where the invite came from, who initiated, and how to start an account.

Below are samples of the INVITATION text and WELCOME text, so that you see the steps we've designed to make a custom invitation.

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INVITATION LETTER SENT to a recommended artist

After a recommendation has been sent, the recommended artist will receive instructions on how to activate their new archiveThing account.

Sammy Jones, Michelle Gay would like you to join archiveThing.

Hello Sammy Jones
Michelle Gay has invited you to be a part of archiveThing.
This is a new place to share and discuss work, meet other practitioners, archive your works, develop collaborative projects and more!
Please click on the SET PASSWORD NOW button at the bottom of this email to get started.  Your email will be used as your login name.
Cheers!
Michelle, Barbara, Barry (archiveThing team)

 

WELCOME LETTER SENT TO NEW ARTIST

After an invited artist has created an account, they will receive a Welcome letter.

Sammy Jones - Welcome to archiveThing

Hello Sammy Jones,
We would like to invite you to be a part of archiveThing. 
A new place to share and discuss work, meet other practitioners, archive your works, develop collaborative projects and more!
Please click on the SET PASSWORD NOW button at the bottom of this email to get started.  Your email address will be used as your login ID.
Cheers!

         Michelle, Barbara, Barry

artist metadata on archiveThing space

ARTIST METADATA - Building an archive from the Ground Up, from the artist's perspective.

We have designed a system of archive drawers that you select and add content to. They are akin to the physical grey archive boxes where artists may have stored their works. The metadata system is meant to act as prompts or suggestions for the work you want to share. We have purposefully left the drawers open so you can design and implement the structure that works for your work.

Drawers work on the row system, and inside each row, you can add Images, Texts, Videos, links, pdfs. 

You select the number of drawers that you want to activate. As soon as you have shared content in a drawer, the system displays ONLY that drawer. The more drawers you add content the more drawers appear in your portfolio of that work.