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Just bumping this journal because it means a lot to me!
Race for Life 2013
Hello all!
It's that time of year again when I am asking for your help in a cause that is close to my heart. Race for life is a 5K charity run raising money for Cancer Research UK. Cancer Research do life-saving work into preventing, diagnosing and treating cancer.
This is my 5th year in a row doing Race for Life, and every year it becomes more and more important to me. There are far too many people suffering with cancer; too many families, friends and individuals and the work Cancer Research do is so important to help find a cure.
This year, the lovely Kaylee (~CurvyLemon) and my sister Rachel (~racheljj) are joining me in the race- and I encourage any woman in the UK to sign up too!

This is me last year, 28 weeks pregnant and dressed up as superwoman because I surpassed my target. If I raise more that my target of

This tiny insignificant thing mildly displeases meI love browsing the Suggestions forum but am seriously blown away by how many times people post threads suggesting/requesting/demanding that dA alter the way the site works in order that they never have to see anything that isn't to their specific personal taste.
I'm not talking about the Mature Content filter or submissions with violate dA's policies here. I mean people expecting the entire site to change so that they don't ever encounter a thumbnail-sized image of a cat or My Little Pony or [insert other random object or concept here] while looking at the front page in Newest or Popular modes.
I find myself typing pretty much the same thing to these people on a regular basis, so thought it would be easier to simply make a journal about it that I can link to. So here it is.
Ok, first of all, context. dA is a huge, global website for artists and art appreciators of all ages with all sorts of tastes in what they create and look at. The fron

Gallery Makeover ProjectHello everyone

Recently my team and I worked tirelessly on a project to help improve the gallery descriptions and thumbnail examples. While that project was indeed tedious with almost 4,000 categories in our system, it was also educational. What I learned from sorting through thousands and thousands of categories was that we have a lot of redundancy and a lot of categories that seem to have been created on a whim that are now simply homes for junk.
Over the years, the desire to appease niche communities and people who just wanted a specific area has led to some categories that go up to 4 levels deep, and it's really no wonder it's so confusing for people to figure out where to submit their artwork.
The conclusion I've come to is simplicity. While I'm not about to rip apart everything and make 6 stand alone categories, I do believe that there is a lot we can do to simplify the category tree. That includes some of the following:
1. Merging categories that ma

Pimps and Whoas - January 17, 2013Pimps
Official dA News

Holiday Card Project 2012 Wrap Up

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Seniority Announcements January 2013

Site Update Commissions, deviantART Muro brushes

Apparel Collection Monster Talk
Official Contests
All "official" contests will begi

Community Relations Newsletter - March/April 2012Table of Contents
1. Gallery Clean Up Project
2. Feedback
3. Volunteer Openings
4. Share Your Opinions
5. Community Projects
6. Official Contests
7 Project Educate 2011/2012
8. Art History Project
9. Gallery Description Project
10. News from the Chats and Forums
11. News from the Galleries
1. Gallery Clean-up Project
The Gallery Clean-up Project will focus on literally cleaning up the category tree in several ways. This first part of this project, is all behind the scenes. Over the years there have been categories that have been "removed", merged, or changed and there are back-end changes that need to be done to fully remove them from the tree. This part will not affect you, and if everything goes properly, you won't even notice it

The second part of this will be ensuring that the categories are all accepting the correct file-types. If there is a file-type that isn't being allowed in a particular category or

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Official dA News

The Enduring Enigma of Collage

Site Update: Survey

Join us for a deviantMEET in Seattle WA

Site Update: Bug Fixes and Discussion

Site Update March 7

Selling on the Premium Con

CR Newsletter - November/December 2012 Director of Community Relations :iconmoonbeam13: :
Table of Contents
1. Happy Holidays and Merry New Year
2. Volunteer Openings in Community Relations
3. Community Projects
4. Official Contests
5 Project Educate 2011/2012
6. Art History Project
7. News from the Chats and Forums
8. News from the Galleries
1. Happy Holidays and Merry New Year
As the old year begins to fade into the sunset, it is customary to reflect on the passing year and make plans for the upcoming one. Some do this in the form of resolutions, some people make action plans, some people just swing into the new year the same way they swung out of the old one

Whatever way you intend to welcome in 2013, I hope you're surrounded by love and that you do it safely!
I've been reflecting on the year and like many, with some focus on the unimaginable events of the last few weeks. Specifically, the shooting in Newtown. I know that it's "human nature" to want to find

Everyday we're CV'ingAs a Community Volunteer - I do as much or as little within the community that I feel comfortable doing. We're not pressured to do this and that, we don't even have to give a Daily Deviation every day, we choose how we promote our selected galleries/chats and forums and we're not fixed to any specific rule on how much or how little we do. But I do believe that it's important to share with you just what the community volunteers do and why we do it. More importantly it's so easy to get lost on this site full of many people - and miss out on the awesome that's going on. So I'm going to share with you exactly what the latest awesome is...
Project Educate
Almost every week since October last year the Community Volunteers have been working hard both independently and as part of small teams to bring You Project Educate.
Project Educate is about bringing forward art forms whether they are popular or overlooked and giving

CR Newsletter January/February 2013 Director of Community Relations :iconmoonbeam13: :
Table of Contents
1. New Submission Process and Thumbnail Examples
2. New Galleries and Gallery Additions or Change Requests
3. Why Wasn't I Chosen?
4. Volunteer Openings in Community Relations
5. Community Projects
6. Official Contests
7. Project Educate 2013
8. Art History Project
9. News from the Chats and Forums
10. News from the Galleries
11. Vacation Notice
1. New Submission Process and Thumbnail Examples
In my opinion, one of the greatest advantages to the New Submission Process, are the thumbnail examples and descriptions that appear when you're selecting a category. It's no secret that we have misplaced deviations throughout the galleries and it's probably the most complained about topic I deal with on a daily basis. My team and I have been working hard to improve the descriptions and thumbnail examples for all of the galleries, and I'm happy

Welcome Maytel, Arctoa and rydi1689!!^maytel, ^arctoa, and ^rydi1689!!
Please help us in welcoming the newest members to the Community Volunteers team!!!

:iconMaytel:
^maytel
Artisan crafts

:iconArctoa:
^arctoa
Abstract & surreal photography

:iconrydi1689:
^rydi1689
Manga/animne

Dictionary Holiday 2012 EntryThis article will be dedicated to all things Holiday 2012 on deviantART. Keep an eye on this for contests, projects, events, giveaways, and deals associated with the Holidays. If you think we've missed something that you think should be included, send us a note and we'll update the article!
#dA-Dictionary
Official Articles
Holiday Headquarters
$Ikue would like to remind us of the Help Desk's Holiday ClosuresHappy Holidays from #hq
Projects
The official Holiday Card Project

Pinboard: Current Community EventsHallo everyone, I hope you all got through the transition into 2013 mostly unscathed!
This is just a short piece of correspondence to let you know about some current Community Relations-led events that might be of interest and relevance to the Abstract & Surreal community. Feel free to take part, or to inform me of other abstract and surreal happenings that I could promote.
#photohunt Chat Event
The PhotoHunt chat, hosted by `AshleyxBrooke, is holding a special event on the 12th January at 14:00 EST. Lots of prizes are being given away and it's definitely worth your time if you've a free few hours to take photographs in a time-limited theme-set environment. Full information about the event can be found here.
#Abstract-and-Surreal December Contest Results
#Abstract-and-Surreal's December contest is over and has been judged. The theme was Christmas

dA Related CR Update: December 2012Welcome to the last deviantART Related CR Update of the year!

News
News posted between the last CR Update and now:
Winners of the devID Spooky Make-up ContestCSS Did You Know? - November 20, 2012, November 28th, 2012, and December 4th, 2012Did You Know? - Username Changing, Llama Locking and

Community Week November 19th - November 25thHello Everyone
�`JamminJo and ^ValaSedai Welcome You to #projecteducate's Community Week November 19th - November 25th. We have been working hard on putting together a fantastic week to help bring our deviantART Community together to learn from each other and have some fun too

Currently we have three time slots available, if you are interested in participating later this week on Friday, please note both `JamminJo and ^ValaSedai with your idea(s) and the time slot of your interest. As many of you know the end of this weeks is a holiday weekend for those that celebrate Thanksgiving.
Community Week November 19th - November 25th
Monday Morning: Introduction blog by `JamminJo
Monday Late Morning: Muro and Chat Announcement by `Arichy
Monday Afternoon: Interview with =Aida-Art by `lintu47
Tuesday Morning: Fun with Plz Accounts by =SingingFlames
Tuesda

The CR Stamp Project

Stamps are a great way to show your support for a project, a person or a group of people, spread awareness for a cause or promote a contest. It is also valid to do them just for fun, with just a funny image and/or message.
Since their introduction to the deviantArt galleries, millions of stamps have been created with a great variety of messages, both silly and serious, and you can see them all over the place, from journals to profile widgets.
The Community Relations department exists to encourage, facilitate and develop the relationship with our deviantART community. Our goal is to nurture our community by encouraging, stimulating artists to create, collaborate, and participate in a friendly, safe, and supportive artistic environment.
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Welcome Neiio, Valasedai and Lost-angle!!

Wed Nov 28, 2012, 11:44 AM by ^Kaz-D

`neiio, ^ValaSedai & `lost-angle!

Please join us in welcoming new additions to the Community Volunteer Team!

`neiio
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=SingingFlames Nov 29, 2012 Hobbyist Writer

Congrats!

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^PirateLotus-Stock Nov 29, 2012

HELLO!

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`OtisBee Nov 29, 2012 Interface Designer

^neiio is a great choice. he'll not disappoint. i'm sure.
that's not to say that the others will disappoint or that anyone has ever been a disappointment.

congrats to all of you guys.

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^sTiViA Nov 29, 2012 Hobbyist

Welcome! ♥

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^kingmancheng Nov 29, 2012 Professional Filmographer

Welcome!

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^maytel Nov 28, 2012

Hi! welcome~~

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