💛 #PortfolioDay News - Issue #10
Boo! October’s #PortfolioDay is near! #PortfolioDay turns 5 🎉
Well would you look at the time? The final #PortfolioDay of 2023 is just two weeks away on Tuesday, October 10th! That means two whole weeks to add that final polish to the latest version of your portfolio. Read on to find out how you can put your best foot forward and reel in those clients!
Preparing your post
TIP: You can prepare a Twitter post ahead of time via the web app. Just click the calendar icon below your post before hitting "Tweet" to schedule it for later. For Instagram and Facebook, take a look at the Meta Business Suite to help you plan and schedule your posts.
Remember to include:
Short introduction
The kind of work you are looking for and your availability
Portfolio link
Contact info
The #PortfolioDay tag
4 of your best works
Protect your work
We at #PortfolioDay are encouraging you to run your work through Glaze before uploading anywhere online to help prevent your work from being used in datasets without your consent. To find out more, please visit the Glaze Project.
Some other precautions to consider:
Only upload web-sized images to the internet.
Watermark everything.
Consider cropping images that you share to social media and only displaying full versions somewhere you control.
Keep your portfolio behind a password or paywall.
Hey Clients and Recruiters!
Need to hire a creative but don't know where to start? Take a look through the #PortfolioDay tag! Creative collaborators are ready to meet you. Use the search function on your social media of choice and type in #PortfolioDay + *any search term* to find the right pro for the job. This works any day, not just #PortfolioDay!
TIP: Use Advanced Search to really refine your search.
5 years of #PortfolioDay
This October will mark five whole years of #PortfolioDay! That’s five years of connecting artists with clients. Five years of filling feeds with incredible work. Five years of witnessing the incredible strength of the creative community. Thank you so much for supporting one another all this time and thank you for supporting my efforts to keep this thing going.
It goes without saying that the last couple of years have been a dizzying time to be a creative. It gives me strength to see artists still doing their thing despite it all. I am in awe of the incredible activist artists who have been lending their time to causes that benefit us all. Help when you can, preserve your energy when you can’t.💛
The future of #PortfolioDay
I’m gonna level with you, running this event takes a lot of work. Ever since Mr. Musk started messing with Twitter, many sites have cropped up to try and claim their throne. At this time, there is no way for me run this with the same energy on all of these platforms. #PortfolioDay makes the most sense when it functions as a way to connect artists with clients and it needs to run where those clients spend time. Right now, Mastodon and Threads don’t seem to be it. #PortfolioDay will still be on Twitter (until it becomes paid only, and then ✌️) and I’ll be redoubling efforts on Instagram.
I’ll continue to evaluate where people want to be and–if it makes sense–I will pivot where #PortfolioDay is being actively run. Thank you for your understanding!
🔭 Around the Industry
🔸Deal or no deal? A tentative agreement has been reached! The end of the WGA Strike could be near.
🔸The New York Times Bestsellers List is challenging AI in court.
🔸Insert Coin to Continue - Video game voice actors authorize a strike!
Do you know of important creative industry news that needs to be seen? Drop us a line at portfoliodayinfo@gmail.com with the subject line "For the Newsletter" to be considered!