EntryThingy Blog and Podcast

Center for Furniture Craftsmanship

2012-05-15T14:12:37UTC

In this episode, Peter Korn, executive director for the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship in Rockport, Maine talks about their recent exhibition Regeneration: Fine Woodworkers Under 30:

0:00 - About studio furniture
1:15 - The exhibition
2:20 - Exposure
3:25 - Voting on Facebook
5:50 - Sponsorship
6:40 - Opening and show
7:30 - Show organization & management

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Peter Korn	Regeneration: Fine Woodworkers Under 30	Center for Furniture Craftsmanship

Ground Arts and Rogue Space | Chelsea

2012-05-08T15:31:46UTC

In this episode, Kevin O'Hanlon and Kelly Worman talk about their project Ground Arts, a not for profit organization helping artists receive exposure and opportunities in the art market, while helping build art programs around the world for children. They also talk about Rogue Space | Chelsea, one of Chelsea's leading venues for art openings, fashion shows, corporate meetings, photoshoots, and art related soirees.

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Kevin O'Hanlon	Kelly Worman	I am Haiti Project

I am Haiti Project	Rogue Space \| Chelsea	Rogue Space \| Chelsea

New tutorial video: Admin and juror notes

2012-05-02T21:09:52UTC

In this video you'll see how the admin and juror notes work - and how you can show juror notes to entrants:

Orange County Center for Contemporary Art

2012-05-01T16:58:23UTC

In this episode, Jeff Alu talks about art calls for entry and shows at the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art in Santa Ana, California.

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Emailer update when voting per image

2012-04-23T21:25:04UTC

Now, when you use the emailer to send emails to entrants and you're voting per image, each entrant receives only one email with a list of images (title, number and space) with the selected status.

Add the word IMAGESINFO to your email text where you want the list of images to appear.

As always, please let us know if you have any questions or comments!

NextByDesign: Occupy: What's Next? call for posters

2012-04-17T16:33:52UTC

Here's the first episode of a podcast series we're starting called "Art of the Call" where we'll be talking with the people behind art calls for entry and shows about the whys, whats and hows.

In this episode, Jean-Benoit Levy, Erik Adigard and David Peters with NextByDesign talk about their call for posters "Occupy: What's next?".

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Please click over to the NextByDesign blog for images of entered posters and more information.


Jean-Benoit Levy	Erik Adigard	David Peters

Hide contact form on signup

2012-04-16T16:36:38UTC

Now you can hide the contact form where entrants are asked for their address, phone number, etc when they signup with your EntryThingy to submit their entry:

Login as admin, click Admin, [preferences] and set the first option on the left to "Do not show contact info form on entrant signup".

New Paypal button wizard

2012-04-03T16:19:50UTC

Click over to the FAQ, scroll down to and click "How do I integrate payment options such as Paypal?" to try out the new Paypal button wizard. It'll generate customized payment button code that you can use to receive entry fee payments through Paypal.

There are all sorts of options to have the payment button automatically calculate the entry fee based on the number of images/files uploaded, dropdown option selected and checkbox checked.

And, it'll automatically put the name of the call into the item name and entry number into the item number so you'll see that in your Paypal payment lists, making it easy to consolidate payments with entries.

Email alerts for new entries

2012-03-06T01:12:13UTC

Now you can have alert emails sent to up to 5 email addresses when you receive new entries. Login as admin, click into Admin, [preferences] and you'll see the new option on the right (if not, press F5 on your keyboard to refresh). Enter up to 5 emails, separated by commas.

Map of current calls for entry

2012-02-29T02:02:47UTC

Now there's a map of all current calls for entry hosted by EntryThingy.

Click a pin to see details for each call and a link to the call's site. Select from a dropdown to filter the map to show calls with show dates in that month.