MS Podcast#136
The largest online art community.
(WORLD) The MediaSnackers podcast focusses on individuals, organisations or companies who are simply impressing us and which are crying out for more discussion.
Fiona Hooley, Director of community operations for DeviantArt, the largest online art community, discusses her new role.
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0.00—0.17 intro
0.19—2.03 DeviantArt and Fiona’s role
2.04—2.59 sense of scale (re: community)
3.00—4.08 what the platform offers
4.09—4.36 niches
4.37—6.15 areas of development
6.16—7.22 what is exciting
7.23—8.41 differentiating between other social networking sites
8.42—9.50 future plans
9.51—10.01 thanks and outro
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April 20th, 2009
Great interview DK. As a long time member of deviantart (writing poetry under a pseudonym) it is good to see the direction and growth they have taken without, as Fiona said, looking like they are jumping on a social networking bandwagon.
April 20th, 2009
Many thanks for taking the time to listen and commenting David – always appreciative of any comments
May 3rd, 2009
Cool interview, as a long time member of dA it was great to put a voice to the face!
May 17th, 2009
One of the worst things dA did was take her on board. She is taking them in the wrong direction, sorry to say.
May 18th, 2009
Why do you say that Melisa?