Did you know there is an unbelievably easy way to keep people up to date on your artwork at Imagekind? It’s called RSS, which stands for Real Simple Syndication. Read on and I’ll show you just how “Real Simple” it really is.

With RSS, all you need is a link and an RSS reader, and you can keep up with hundreds of thousands (maybe millions to billions) of different content sources on the web. From blogs and news sources, to YouTube and yes, Imagekind Galleries and Groups. Just click and your RSS reader will automatically update every time there is new content to view.

At Imagekind, we’ve incorporated this same technology to make it simple for people to stay up to date on their favorite galleries and groups on Imagekind. Whenever someone adds a new image to a gallery you are following via RSS, or posts a new image to a group, the reader will automatically update and show you what image was included and other useful information about the artwork for sale.

So, whenever you encounter an artist’s work on Imagekind you particularly like, scroll down to the bottom of the gallery, and click the “RSS for this Gallery.” Next time the artist adds more images to that gallery, your RSS reader will update, allowing you to easily simply view the new content.

The Potential for Artists

Incorporating RSS into Imagekind provides huge marketing potential for Imagekind Artists. With RSS, artists can share their feed links with their friends, family and fans outside of Imagekind. That way, they can click and stay up to date when an artist posts new images to their galleries.

To share your RSS feed link, simply right click on the and select “copy link location.” You can then paste that link as you would any other URL. Once you have the link, share it on your favorite social network, twitter, flickr, blog or even send an email. Once someone clicks the link, it will ask if and how they would like to subscribe to your gallery via RSS.

See, a real simple way to share your content and keep people up to date on your artwork for sale on Imagekind.

Want to learn something else you can use your Imagekind Gallery RSS Feed for? Read the post An Easy way to Display your Art Online and discover how to market your Imagekind galleries with banners via RSS.

Note: please allow some time between posting new images and them showing in the RSS reader. There is an expected delay for the reader to update.

Congratulations to Arup Halder, who won 1^st place in the photo contest over at A Singular Creation.

The category was “Architecture of the World”. Here is Arup’s winning photograph:

‘Pattern’ by Arup Halder

Arup won a one year platinum membership to Imagekind ($95 value) plus $50 cash from the A Singular Creation folks.

This post is not exactly related to art and photography but it does pertain to how we built Imagekind.  For whatever reason, I get a lot of emails from start-up entreprenuers each week asking for tips as to how Imagekind was able to raise VC money with relative ease. These are only my thoughts in no particular order based on my own opinions. I hope some of this is helpful for you if you’re looking to get your own company funded [Click for rest of post on Curious Office]

Imagekind member Daniel Teeter gets some exposure for his Imagekind presence in the Oakland Newspaper today.  Pretty exciting!  Read the article here.

You may notice some issues with the site. Some of you loyal followers already noticed that there has been A LOT of tweaking on the site lately. We’re getting ready to launch a big partnership and that includes introducing new webservers and a dedicated  image processing machine. With a site that is as dynamic as ours, I can assure you that this is easier said than done.  Will breaking out all these various functions to multiple machines to help prepare for growth create a few strange bugs that you may observe?  Yes.  It is entirely possible.

Bear with us. Growth has its upsides and downsides.

Kelly Smith
Imagekind founder & CEO