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Of interest to U.S. members is that the US Senate has passed a bill giving artists and others a tax deduction of the full fair market value of their donated work. At this time, the deduction is still only for the cost of materials used to create the work.  The House version does not include this, so we will see if the final version does. If this is important or potentially important to you (and it may just be!), contact your Congressman and Senator. You can read more about it here .

Unique visitors (visitors who are counted once only) for the month of November were 49,126 a bit below the prior month due to the holiday in the United States. Total visitors were 75,145. Page views were over 2 mm and hits were 3.1 mm.

The above stats do not include visitors to the individual member sites. That number is considerably higher with some members enjoying 1-2,000 unique visitors for their sites alone. These are the members who put a little extra effort into getting their URL's out. This is not hard to do. Our rule of thumb is to send out your URL to one new person a day.

We had another good month for new member sign-ups, our total for November was 53 new members!

We have set up a mailbox for scams and spam. Forward any emails you get to report-spam@artspan.com and we will block them from all Artspan email addresses. Do your part to stop spam!

We are getting close to implementing some exciting new features for Artspan sites! We have received requests for a portfolio feature that will allow members to arrange works by medium, subject, etc. Also featured will be a jump page option. This means that instead of your gallery page being your homepage, there will be a separate homepage. We have gotten the new Artspan homepage designed and now we are in the nuts and bolts stage of coding the new changes in.

Yes, we all get very busy around this time of year, and it's easy to let your site ‘fall through the cracks' during the next month or so. Take a few moments to freshen up your site-try a different color theme, add a few new pieces of art, or send out a newsletter of your own with the mail feature in your member admin. Be sure and check the ‘new art' box at the bottom of the edit image page when adding new images, that will alert anyone that is signed up for new art notification.

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