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I started getting involved on the Behance network back in October of 2009. Being a 17 year old who had a passion for art and design, it looked like a great place to grow and gain some exposure, but to be honest, what I really wanted was a free online portfolio. A few days into my Behance experience, I discovered that Behance is loaded with endless amounts of inspirational people, art, and community. It's extremely professional in comparison to other portfolio sites. Behance has become one of my main sources for inspiration. I log in every morning, look at new work, and I'm instantly on a creative high for the rest of the day. It's also a great platform for networking. I can't tell you how many relationships I have built and opportunities have come out of my time on Behance.

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I joined Behance right before I decided to go back to school a couple of years ago, trailblazing from business to creative, and basically every job I've gotten since has been thanks to my profile on Behance. It's like an innovative adamantium-infused catnip for unbelievably creative employers. Just in the last year, I have been contacted by Oakley, RPA, Digitaria agency, and many others. For a freelancer going back to school, I couldn't be more grateful.

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Based on our promotion with AcceptPay over at the 99%, we wanted to use the system ourselves. So, we rolled out AcceptPay as an option for Teams on AMO. A new service from American Express, this is a great alternative for those of you unable to pay via our traditional credit card system. Upon request, we can invoice you for payment via eCheck or ACH.

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Given our team's obsession for tips and insights on how to execute bold ideas (there's even a Behance book coming out that is aptly titled "Making Ideas Happen"), we were thrilled to provide a few questions for the legendary Sir Richard Branson. As you may know, Richard Branson is the founder of Virgin and has executed innumerable ideas. And as you can imagine, our questions for him are all about EXECUTION, and how he pushes bold ideas to completion.

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Charles Williams, a UK based designer specializing in Typography shared his Behance Success story with us this week:

I posted some typography on Behance in October 2008 - just a selection of various typographic bits I'd worked on in the past 2 years in a project called "Typos."

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Last week on Twitter and Facebook, we asked you what creative fields you were most excited to see progress from in 2010. We loved hearing your thoughts, from the very specific (ex. Brain Synapse Replications) to the pandemic (common sense and education). Here are a selection of responses:

Yesterday on Twitter and Facebook, we asked you what your go-to websites for creative inspiration were. Many of you responded - we chose some tweets and Facebook posts suggesting excellent creative websites to share with you today.  We hope you add some of them to your daily creative roster or Google Reader!

Enjoy!

Looking back on 2009, we're incredibly proud of the progress the Behance Network has made, and excited in anticipation of the major upgrades and developments that are on the way. Have a look at our "2009 And The Year Ahead" email that was sent to our community last week. Highlights below:

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The Behance team was invited to take part in HP's "Input/Output" interview series. So far, the series has featured Chris Anderson (WIRED) George Halvorson (CEO Kaiser Permanente), and Richard Florida, (best selling author, The Rise of the Creative Class). HP has asked us to help cover the conversation with this week's interviewee, author James Surowiecki, author of The Wisdom of Crowds.

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Each day, you'll notice fresh featured content on the Behance Network and our Served Sites. We're proud to show you the very best from our talented network of Creative Professionals, to help these greats get the exposure they deserve. Each day, the curators go through every single project that is uploaded; we get a lot of questions from network members asking how we choose the featured content on both the Behance Network and The Served sites.

Well, we'll tell you (what we can). Innumerable factors go into how featured work is chosen, but the Curatorial Team has put together a list of a few outstanding features that they look for when sorting through the freshly uploaded projects each day. If you won't rest easy until your work gets on the front page or a Served site, keep these guidelines in mind:

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