_What's in your email signature? [that's the part at the end of your email that often lists your phone, email, websites.] Many artists also include a picture, logo, quotes and more. My advice? Like almost everything I talk about: Keep It Simple.

If you give me too many options, I will probably do none of them. If you want me to pay attention to your email signature, try making your signature shorter and include just one thing, one action: maybe a link to a special page on your site where you put your latest art.

__Lori Theriault: Homemade Tastes Better on Handmade. Lori also writes about food and shares recipes on the Sexy Food Blog

Barbara Fisher: Paintings and Silk Scarves, Studio open Fridays in Asheville's River Arts District

Laurie McCarriar: Photographic Art and Artist Geek! The CLICK! Photo Project through May 22

_How do you name your photo files? Emailing images to curators, galleries, contests, and the media is something we do all the time.

If your image file name does not include your own name, it may get lost in the shuffle.

Artist Geek mini-workshop coming soon—best practices for file-naming, and ways to re-name files all at once instead of one-by-one.

Joyce Thornburg works in Asheville's River Arts District at the Wedge Studios.
Mark Holland, Asheville NC
Barbara Elliott, Art Cloth Wearables, Burnsville NC. “Let the beauty we love be what we do” —Rumi
Laurie McCarriar, Photographic Art and Artist Geek! The CLICK! Photo Project opens Feb 14

_Is your email inbox filled with emails that you need to take action on, but not until 2 weeks from now? And don't those emails always seem to get lost in the shuffle way too easily? Wouldn't it be great if you never lost an email again?
I use a free online service called FollowUpThen.
Here's how it works:

_1. Take the email you need in 2 weeks (or 1 day, or 6 months - any time period)
2. Forward it to: 2weeks@followupthen.com (or 1day, or whatever)
3. throw out the email.
4. in 2 weeks Followupthen will send it right back to the top of your inbox, ready to work on.

If this looks interesting, but still seems a little too techie, suggest it over on the Classes page and I'll add it to the Artist Geek Workshop schedule.

Barbara's scarf designs are named after women in her family.
"I have some fascinating ancestors who had some good names— names such as Avanel, Sydney, Karne, Ida, and my great grandmother Helvina Lofte."

You can find the full line of Barbara Fisher's scarves online at www.fishcakedesign.net, or in her studio at 170 Lyman Street in Asheville's River Arts District.