This recent BusinessWeek article discusses some of the recent developments on- and off-line in the already well-established arts and crafts world across the US and Europe. New communities of do-it-yourself (DIY) arts & crafts, many of them under 30, are benefiting from concepts like open-source ideology and new web-enabled services to share know-how and sell their creations on global sites.
Certainly for Hawaiian communities, within which small arts & crafts (A&C) side business are common, such new communities and services should be looked at as possible ways to grow what might just be a small endeavor into a real-income generating venture with global reach.
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