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We need help with your feedback!   As we prepare to add a tutorials section to the site, we’re also prepping for additions to the home page! We've reached out to a few of you individually, but we would also like to request feedback for a better overview. 

We'll use these quotes on the homepage in our next big update! Please take a few minutes and reply to this post (or e-mail [email protected]) with anything you like about WatchMeWork.com! It can be in regards to the people, something you’ve learned, or a reason why you stream with us! Some ideas are: - people in the community - features of the site - profile features - the design / ui/ux - learning and teaching opportunities available We want to know and we want other’s to know too! Send back your info and we’ll quote you when we do the redesign!

Thanks and keep collaborating!!

This week we added a cool new feature! Thanks to our intern Divij Nagpaul for leading the charge on this.      You can now make a custom thumbnail that will appear on your stream for the first 2 hours. (after which it will be replaced with the Youtube preview image). Once users start customizing their thumbnails, the All Live Streams page will look consistently awesome! The pixel dimensions are: 303 x 225 but will resize larger photos as well.

I’d also like to welcome 4 new members to the Watch Me Work team: Elle Marzec, Tayler Olivias and Noah Hendersonare our new Admins focusing on community engagement and outreach and McCoy Buck is our third creative partner. Elle’s goal is to help people eliminate the fear around trying new things. Whether it be crafts, as in this case, or in life in general, she believes you shouldn't be afraid to try, and sometimes fail. She’ll tackle everything from traditional arts such as embroidery and knitting, to Pinterest Fails, and will take on any user challenge! Tayler is a student studying Illustration and Concept Design in the field of Entertainment at a college in Laguna Beach, CA. He’s interested in expanding the platforms he’s engaging in as well as learn from various art communities. Noah is a talented character artist working professionally and is interested in continuing to improve professionally as well as grow his artistic network to learn from others. McCoy has a huge passion for animation and teaching. He’s been animating for a little under two years and is constantly learning. He works in Sketchbook Pro 7 Anime Studio Pro 11 Gimp/ Photoshop Ink Scape / Illustrator Aesprite / Pyxel Edit and is looking forward to hosting critique shows and the potential to teach.

That’s it for today! Thanks and keep collaborating! 

Good day!

The big news this week is the announcement of next months’ Exquisite Corpse Contest! Over the last 7 months WMW streamers have collaborated on Exquisite Corpses and now we’re turning it into a contest! It will be really fun and the winning team is going to receive WMW merch and prizes! Their winning piece will be featured on the front page scrolling header and all over social media! July 1st we'll launch with two teams of 6 and part of the criteria for the winning team will be how many more artists they get involved over the course of July!

Last week’s art class was amazing! Check out the replay here!

We’ve also given profiles a few updates, including social media buttons in live-stream view. All your followers are now available on their own page!

We also welcome our 4th WMW Admin, Andrew Pealock! If you're interested in getting involved as an Admin, contact us here or on the site!

That’s it for today!

Hey Tumblr! Just so everyone knows, social media links are now live on WMW profiles. Use ‘em, love ‘em and we can promote you when you’re live!

The Critique Show we have on Wednesdays is now a Podcast. So if you ever miss the stream, it's even easier to watch later! Speaking of which, 10 Minute Art Critiques are live NOW! You can catch them every Wednesday at 3 P.M. CST. If you have art that you would like critiqued, send it to one of our Creative Partners, JasmoColors, she'll add you to the next available Wednesday. We also have our very first Development Intern, Divij Nagpaul!

This week we released an update that allows users to delete their previous streams from profiles! Log in, go to your profile view, scroll down to your streams and you'll see the ability to any of your streams from the site. In the future we plan on offering the ability to allow users to organize their previous streams as well.  Remember your video will still be on your Youtube channel, unless you delete it from there too.

This week we hit 1,000 WMW users!  This is a meaningful milestone as it proves the incredible growth we've had over the past year. This time last year we had about 25 core users signed up on the site. To have 1,000 only a year later is great validation that we're building a unique community that matters and one that people need. Thank you all for being a part of it!