I was chatting with one of my friends the other day about being supportive of our favorite artists online. There are of course many ways of going about this but we came up with a short list, feel free to add to it in the comments:

#1 Retweeting their tweets on twitter

#2 Sharing their Facebook posts, for that matter "LIKE"ing their facebook presence

#3 Watching their UStream

#4 Commenting on their blog posts, facebook posts, flickr and responding to tweets.

#5 Posting links on Facebook and Twitter to their blogs

#6 If you buy a piece from them, you can mention how awesome it is on YOUR blog, twitter and facebook

#7 Mentioning them during your UStream broadcasts

#8 Networking with other artists outside the internets.

One of the things that I think is commonly lost is that we are a community of artists, even if we are worldwide and may never meet in person, we are a community and we need to support each other for success. The days of gallery system competition can be brought down if we support each other rather than cut each others throat.