About authoring articles on this blog

Each member of CAGEY gets author privileges on the CAGEY blog, although we may revoke that if a member uses it inappropriately. I just sent an invitation to be an author to every CAGEY member who emailed me at cageymail@gmail.com when you first joined the team. If you did not get an invitation, then please send an email to the address above.

Members are encouraged to post articles that are interesting and informative to members OR to jewelry purchasers. If you write an informative article on your own blog or if you find one elsewhere online, please make a post on the blog linking to it. If you are simply linking to an article, please do not include any bio or other self-promoting material. If you write an informative article and post it in its entirety to the CAGEY blog, you are welcome to include a brief bio and a link to your shop or an etsy mini – a perk for contributing!

Each member is allowed to make one tasteful self-promotional post per month. Please make this a post that people will be interested in reading. Ideas include an overview of new pieces, announcement of a sale, a new technique you learned or some wonderful new stones you got – try to make it read like a newsletter and not just an ad.

If you make a treasury featuring CAGEY members, by all means post the link!

Also, we have our first official thread going over on the etsy forums - please drop by and enter into a discussion! http://www.etsy.com/forums_thread.php?thread_id=5849764

Jessi

Supurb article on show security for jewelers

I was really impressed with this and wanted to share it with everyone. It's from the Lapidary Journal and is one of the best security articles I've ever seen.

http://lapidaryjournal.com/archive/jan00bus.htm

Team info from etsy

These are some useful excerpts for team members that I received in the acceptance email from etsy.

• You can email updates to your Team's profile page to teams@etsy.com. We update the pages from the inbox in the order they're received. We do reply to each and every email we get there, and you'll know your email was received when you get an autoresponse after sending it. Unfortunately, for the time being, this is the only way to make updates to your Team's page. Thanks in advance for your patience. New members should always be sent in the username, username, username format (similar to how they appear on the page). Please just send the bits that need to change. This expedites the process greatly.

• There is information on how you can have information on your Team included in the Storque, Etsy's blog, at http://team.etsy.com/digests.html and http://team.etsy.com/storquesubmissions.html

• If your Team plans on using a tag for people to search, the tag needs to include the word "team" in it somewhere for Etsy to recognize it as a Team tag. Find the guide to Etsy Team tags at http://team.etsy.com/teamtags.html

• If you have questions, check the Teams FAQ here: http://team.etsy.com/teamQandA.html, and do use the Guides and other resources linked from the top nav bar at http://team.etsy.com/guides.html