Sydney Art Galleries and Art Community

Sydney Art Galleries and Art Community is a Online community about the art scene in Sydney, Australia.
The 'Sydney Art Galleries and Art Community' group ia is a Sydney based discussion forum through facebook, for artists to meet, add listings for new shows, have conversations upload artworks, view web links of art galleries, art shops, magazines and other art related associations.
They produce a weekly e-news letter with the upcoming shows for the following week, through the generousity of the members and galleries information.
Over one year has pasted since the group was set up in the beginning of 2009, the arts group now consists of over 2200 members from Australia and around the world.
Motivations and barriers to contributing to online communities
Successful online communities motivate online participation. Several research studies have investigated methods of motivating participation in online communities.
Online community virtuous cycle
Most online communities grow slowly at first, due in part to the fact that the strength of motivation for contributing is usually proportional to the size of the community. As the size of the potential audience increases, so does the attraction of writing and contributing. This, coupled with the fact that organizational culture does not change overnight, means creators can expect slow progress at first with a new virtual community.
As more people begin to participate, however, the aforementioned motivations will increase, creating a virtuous cycle in which more participation begets more participation.
Community adoption can be forecast with the Bass diffusion model, originally conceived by Frank Bass to describe the process by which new products get adopted as an interaction between innovative early adopters and those who follow them.
List of artists
Many from are members of this online community.
For more Australian artists
Also see
*Arts in Australia
*Australian Garden History Society
*Culture of Australia
*Botanical illustration
*Contemporary Art
*Indigenous Australian art
*Contemporary Indigenous Australian art
*Australian artist-run initiatives
*Photography in Australia
*Biennale of Sydney
*Power Institute of Fine Arts
*South Australian Living Artists Festival
*Rock Art Research
*Australian Feminist Art Timeline
 
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