PTS PARAGON - Photography

Hello, Members!

Thank you all for your interest and membership! We're finally back up & building fast, and this newsletter is to inform everyone of all the new changes.

If you have been a member for awhile, you know we hit some rough spots with our host, and ultimately decided to move our dot com at one point. While we enjoyed a more stable site, we were disappointed with the lack of creative control. We've since returned to our original host, and have been busy doing a site-wide, "face-lift".

Older members should immediately note, that when membership was first introduced, (January of this year), many of the areas for members to post were not open yet. Members may now post in all Club Forums, and members of any of the Paragon channels: Art, Beauty/Fashion, Comedy, Dance, Film/TV, Modeling, Music, Photography, Radio/MC, Theatre, Vaudeville, and Writing -- also have posting abilities in the Blogs, Photo Galleries, Video Galleries, and Calendars.

The, "GET LISTED", area -- once available for Artists to list their links -- has been replaced by our, "Artist Index", and accompanying, "Featured Artists", pages in each Paragon channel. We had many Artists take advantage of our, "GET LISTED", feature, and we apologize for the inconvenience if this change applies to you. We now only list Artists who make some sort of contribution to our pages.

Log back in to your profile, and you will notice a new area to identify whether you are an Artist, or a Fan of the club you've joined, places to add your website links, and a new, "Creative Space", for you to add more text, pictures, and/or links.

We've added a Site Map, a Wordpress blog to follow Website Developments, a Twitter account, and Blogger blog on the way, (Behind the Scenes with The Queen), to watch Pensacola Talent Show grow.

There's a new, free ringtone of our Pensacola Talent Show Processional Theme Song, and we've added a chat room to the bottom of most pages. (*Note - We are currently using a meebo chat room, which is attracting a horrible amount of spam. We will soon be going back to a cbox chat room -- see the bottom of the Site Map as an example -- and, not only will members be able to include an avatar, we will be able to ban IP addresses and delete posts. Yay!)

Remember -- our site is being built in anticipation of our, "Grand Opening", Competitions -- Local Events & Online Contests, which will be advertised! So, get in there and start posting early! Every time an Artist posts, it helps us show up in search engines around the web, and when we get noticed, YOU get noticed.

We've recently passed 12,000 visitors on our Home page, and our Music Club alone now has 300 members! We'd love more Artists represented in the other Paragon channels -- please spread the word!

As always, if you have any questions or comments, please post in the Forums, or email us at: pensacolatalentshow@yahoo.com

xoxo,

Queen Wendy

www.PensacolaTalentShow.com