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If you're an artist who is thinking about licensing your artwork to manufacturers, or if you're already licensing your art and want to expand your range of licenses, then you can learn a lot of useful information about licensees and the market by using RSS feeds.
RSS stands for Real Simple Syndication. You've probably seen the RSS logo or just the tag RSS up in the corner or at the bottom of a lot of the blogs or websites that you visit on a regular basis.
What RSS enables you to do is to have the most recent articles from a blog, news site or information site automatically sent to you at no charge whatsoever. For instance, I have a free account at Google, and the main personalized page that Google gave me is on what they call iGoogle. It's my main page, and it's full of articles from RSS feeds from blogs on art and art licensing, and from news sources that deal with licensing, art, retail and manufacturing. That way I stay on top of what's going on in the world of art and brand licensing.
You can use Google as your "target" for an RSS feed, or Yahoo or any of a number of locations where the RSS feeds will dump new articles as soon as they appear online.
I use RSS feeds to keep up on what's going on in the worlds of art, art licensing, general licensing, international and national news, foreign news, and commentary from magazines that I read regularly. You can even click the RSS button or logo on this article or the site as a whole, and have new postings sent directly to you as they occur. There's nothing to it and it offers lots and lots of benefits.
So when you see Post RSS or just the symbol by itself, click on it to get started. You'll be very happy that you're in the loop, so to speak, and getting all the latest news on art and art licensing. That can make the difference between understand the current state of the market and knowing who is licensing what, and being unaware of the environment that you wish to be a part of.
