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So you want to be a CV...Sometimes I like to wander through the #communityrelations group, and I always come across comments from people so willing to become volunteers, (and a lot of comments from `phoenixleo ._.) specifically in the The Community Relations Team journal, where the opening positions are listed.
To those people: take this journal just as a personal opinion coming from a former volunteer, who currently is just a regular deviant (as in: non-admin of any sort) like you, from someone who, like you, love the community and is willing to contribute and give back the way he can:
I think is great that people is so enthusiastic and passionate about volunteering, it's something that shows. People constantly say "I so would love to help!", "I can't wait to be 18 to apply!", "I so want to be on the team!", there are some who list the complete CR roster in their personal profiles, who openly s

How to be a devious deviant: Take TwoHow to be a devious deviant.

Community Response
People read this and commented on it.
Thank you! I can't believe I got such a positive response from you guys!

I did say I was going to find time and make the actual article someday. So without rambling on forever, I present to you...
How to be a devious deviant, written by you! You are all so freaking devious!

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Give a llama to your visitors.
Give points to people who have their birthdays.
Go to the toDAy site and greet the new deviants.
Greet random deviants in their comments section.
Feature deviants' art in your journal.
Shout in someone's shoutbox.

How to promote other people's work on dAOne of the great things about dA is that it's not only a place where you can promote your own work - it's also a place where you can promote art you admire by other people. There's a whole bunch of ways that you can do this, so if you'd like to help draw attention to awesome art created by your friends or brilliant things you've found while browsing, read on and find out how you could make someone's day.

FEATURING ART IN YOUR JOURNAL
At present, using images and thumbnails in your journal is a subscriber only feature. If you look around dA you'll see al sorts of different features - selections from people's recent favourites, thumbnails of work on a theme, collections of prints etc. You can feature other people's work on your Shoutboard as well as in your journal entries as the thumb code will work on your Shoutboard too. Here are a few FAQ entries that will help you to use your journal to feature other people's work...
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The Community Relations TeamThe Community Relations Team is made up of Community Volunteers who liaise with Director of Community Relations $Moonbeam13
Community Volunteers help the community out by providing you -- the community -- with a specific contact point in relation to galleries, chat and forums. You’ll find them doing the following;

Helping run community challenges and educational projects

Supporting community events

Helping moderate forums

Being part of the #help team

Being part of the team that moderate #devart and other official chatrooms

Liaising with $Moonbeam13 and $fourteenthstar on community matters

Bringing rockstar deviants to your attention via features, articles and Daily DeviationsPlease read :faq85: before applying for a Community Volunteer positionNote that you must be 18 years of age or older to qualifyPlease do NOT send notes
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'Why is this a DD?' Why are you asking the artist?The cool thing about art is that, unlike pretty much everything else out there, it's meant to elicit an emotional reaction.
Sometimes this reaction is rage. Or something close to it.
Sometimes when you see a DD you don't like or get or something, it's doing exactly what the artist intended. But other times, it has nothing to do with the art itself. Because, you know what, we all see DDs we don't "get" every now and then. I'll say it now: I don't like every single DD that has been posted.
More relevant to this conversation, I don't get why some of the DDs that have been posted were considered featurable (which, as we're trying to get across, really means: I don't personally think that some pieces merit 24-hour massive exposure).
And I have the right to think these things.
You do, too.
What's the appropriate place to find out why something was given a DD?
Protip: it's not the art.
It might be a self-suggestion or not, the fact o

Getting the Most out of dA: CommentingUsually, when you read something involving 'Commenting', you think of deviations and the commenting platform that allows other members of the community to voice their thoughts and opinions on the art shown. However, what is pretty evident, and something that most of us may forget, is that deviantART runs on the ability to give and get comments, be it on pieces of artwork, our profile pages, +forums, and everywhere else in between.
In a sense, without the ability to give and get comments, deviantART wouldn't be much of a website, much less #1 of online art communities around. Comments are not solely the cause of what makes deviantART what it is, but it has a huge impact on a lot of things. By giving and getting comments, not only do we interact with other members to really make this a community, we also have the ability to get our voices heard.
It's quite an odd concept with us all facing screens, typing out our thoughts and opinions, but one thing we shouldn't forget is that commen

Celebrating Deviousness - November 2012

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Celebrating Deviousness December 2012

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Congratulations to `UnicornReality



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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

Seniority Announcements - January 2013

This article marks the latest additions to the dizzy height of Senior members in our community. With just over 1000 deviants holding the highly saught after ` -- it's clearly a moment that deserves recognition.
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So what does it take to become a Senior? That's a question many have asked and have never really been able to get a straight answer on. Some have gained Seniority as a thank you for their time spent as a Volunteer, or to recognise their contribution to a particular project or collaborative action. Some have gained Seniority because of their community spirit, providing help and assistance to many other deviants and taking time out to promote the work of others in the community. 
Some people have received Seniority because of their artistic endevours, having a positive influence on their peers by sharing resources, providing constructive criticism and by being a voice that stands out above the many other

`Ticked OffOh my gosh!

Today, I have been honored to receive my ` mark with a bunch of other amazing deviants.
First off, thank you to $fourteenthstar and anyone who suggested me.

You are all amazing!
Whoa, a lot of familiar names on the list!

I hope to get to know some of you more.

`daekazu

`mirz-alt

`Ravenswd

`SavageFrog
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`thetaoofchaos
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dead by `thetaoofchaos
Sand and Waves on a Sunny Day by `SavageFrog
`vespera
Poem for a Mother by `vespera
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How to make a great Journal featureJournal Feature Tutorial
How to make a great Journal feature!
This article has been written for #projecteducate by `miontre.
Featuring other artists in your Journal is a great thing to do, because everyone wins! Not only are you supporting other artists by giving them some extra exposure, but you can also earn some exposure for yourself and make new friends too. Additionally, those who view your feature have the opportunity to find some new art and artists.

Therefore, it pays to make your Journal features the best they can be. Making a really good Journal feature can involve a lot of time and work - planning, collecting artwork, arranging the artwork in a Journal, publication, and promotion. Taking these steps instead of merely dragging in thumbs from your Favourites will result in an appealing and rewarding Journal feature. In this tutorial, we're going to produce a feature with images arranged like this:

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How to be a guiding light and a shining example

by `RockstarVanity, Mar 1, 2009, 10:23:14 AM
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This journal was updated in July 2012 to include some new information and replace outdated terminology.

How can I help?

At regular intervals, new faces appear in the Community Relations team as open positions for Community Volunteers are filled. All these new additions to the team can spark interest in volunteering for dA and can inspire people to ask "What can I do to support my favourite gallery?". You don't have to be a Community Volunteers or have a fancy symbol next to your name to promote and support artists within your favourite gallery. The suggestions listed below are for everyone, and in case you want something a little more useful than just my ideas I've included links to FAQ entries with more information.

Featuring art

To avoid repeating myself, I'd like to point you in the direction of an article called How to promote other people's work on dA that I wrote back in December 2008. It's a few years old but the information contained is still relevant, including...

Featuring art in your journal

Featuring art in news articles

Making sure your features are accessible to all

Suggesting Daily Deviations

Sharing deviations

Contests and collaborations

While dA almost always has a few official contests on the go, hosted by the CR team or run in conjunction with an outside sponsor, anyone is welcome to run their own contest.  Running a contest can be great fun and is a wonderful way to inspire your fellow deviants and encourage participation in a community-wide event.  Please bear in mind though, if you want to run a contest with prizes you can't rely on other people to provide these prizes.

Volunteers (people with ^ and @ symbols in front of their username) do not have a contest prize budget, so while some of us may volunteer to offer prizes for unofficial contests relating to the galleries we moderate it is unfair to expect this.  GMs are here to help though, so we can help you to promote your contest through our journals and news articles.

You can find out more about running your own contests on dA in this dA Life article at #fella.

Running a contest with big prizes isn't the only way to hold an inspirational and exciting event for your fellow artists.  If you're not in a position to give big-money prizes but would still like to run your own event, here are some alternatives...

Have an art trade, where you create a piece of art dedicated to someone else and they create one dedicated to you.

Offer gift art or ask your friends to inspire you by suggesting topics or subjects to base your next work on.

Instead of prints and subs, offer journal or userpage features as prizes. On a site as big as dA, a bit of extra exposure can really make someone's day.

Start a thread in the Thumbshare Forum asking people to link you to pieces of art that they'd like critique on, or ask for examples of work on a theme to illustrate a news article or journal entry.

Start a collaboration project to encourage people to work together, either on small creations shared between two people or on something bigger than you create as a group.

Be a teacher or a mentor

If you have a brain packed full of useful information, share it! Anyone can submit a tutorial to the Resources gallery and whatever you write about, someone will appreciate you sharing your knowledge. If you enjoy writing tutorials, make a folder for them in your gallery and display it on your userpage so that other people can easily find all the useful things you've made. If you enjoy collecting other people's tutorials, you can feature the collection on your userpage.

FAQ #90: How do I customize my profile page?

If you'd like to share your knowledge in a more personal and involved way, you can offer critique on other people's art (keep it polite and constructive, please!) or volunteer your time as a mentor. Check out #ArtistsHospital or write a journal to let people know that you'd like to critique people's work or help a younger or less experienced artist by mentoring them. I can guarantee that you'll have people jumping at the chance to receive helpful comments on their work from someone who knows what they're talking about!

You can browse deviations with critique enabled here and find out more about how to use dA's official critique feature in this FAQ...

FAQ #95: What is the Critique Feature and how do I use it?

Set an example

Who inspires you more - the person who submits three dArama-filled journal entries a day, bitches about other people all the time and publicly insults everything that isn't to their taste?  Or the person who writes tutorials and helpful news articles, features art in their journal and helps out with promoting other deviants' projects?

I'm not saying that everyone should censor their opinions or silently tolerate unpleasantness, but when the majority of your journal entries are based around complaining about things you hate without offering suggestions, you aren't doing anyone any good.  If you've got a problem with something, try and deal with it maturely.

You get out what you put in, so if your interactions are based in positivity you'll have a much more positive experience.  It sounds obvious, but it never hurts to have a reminder...do unto others, and all that.

Make yourself known

Say hi to a Community Volunteer today!  We aren't scary and unapproachable, and when you send us notes or leave comments talking about the galleries we look after you are NOT bothering us or annoying us.  We want to get to know you better, to be introduced to the artists who submit to and care about the galleries we moderate.  We love it when community members help us out with promoting projects and contests and give us a hand with sharing important information, so displaying stamps and linking to our informative journals is definitely appreciated.

We also want to know all about the contests and clubs YOU run, the news articles you write, the art you love and the artists you admire.  We're here to help you promote your projects and we actively want you to feed us with awesome things to pimp.  We aren't just here for the good stuff either.  We're also here to help you deal with any problems that you're having and bad stuff that you've noticed going on.  If we can't help you directly, we'll be able to let you know who can help or contact a staff member on your behalf if necessary.

So don't be scared to make friends with your GM - we WANT you to and we love meeting active members of the community!  When you dedicate time and enthusiasm to supporting us and each other, your efforts certainly don't go unnoticed.  If you aren't sure who your GM is, you can find a list of the current CR team at #communityrelations.

If you do want to volunteer in an official capacity...

If you do want to volunteer for dA, whether as a Gallery Moderator in the Community Relations team or a Message Network Administrator in Community Operations, check out this FAQ for more information:

FAQ #85: Can I be a volunteer on deviantART?