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Accessibility on Social Media

M+R

Captions are an important tool to make sure your content can be widely consumed. . Auto-captioning is a great tool to take advantage of when in a rush, but it isn’t the end all be all. . Additionally, you may see special characters used to create artistic typefaces for profiles on Twitter and Instagram. Link Sharing.

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Friday Fun Links: Saving Libraries, One Million Bones, Faith in Your Calling, Food Revolution, and a Summer Hair Chop

Have Fun - Do Good

Still totally inspired by Save Oakland Library. This week they had a 14-hour Read-in , presented 14,500 petition signatures to the City Council, and showed up at City Hall with shovels, rakes, and hammers to protest the potential closure of the Temescal Tool Lending Library.

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Ask Britt: How Do You Increase Blog Traffic?

Have Fun - Do Good

Between the internet strategy teleseminar for the San Francisco Writing Conference I did on Monday, the blogging presentation I did for the Oakland branch of Ladies Who Launch on Tuesday, and the consults I had with individual bloggers on Wednesday and Thursday, I've been asked several times this week: "How do I increase my blog traffic?"

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How Can You Attract New Audiences Without Alienating Your Base?

Museum 2.0

As Peter wrote: If someone enjoys Arts Event A because it’s social, informal, energetic, fun, and hip, why should we expect her to also enjoy Arts Event B if B is individual, formal, quiet, serious, and traditional (at least in its presentation, if not artistically)? Dias de las Muertos or Chinese New Year to attract new audiences.

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Favianna Rodriguez: Political Digital Artist and Printmaker

Have Fun - Do Good

I think about how hesitant I was to become an artist, because I didn't see role models, and even to this day how hard it is for me sometimes to find peers who are women of color, because of how systematically they are pushed out. I'm an artist and an institution builder. The kind of art I do is art that gets engaged into the public.

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Community Funded Reporting: Interview with David Cohn of Spot.us

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Which is great (and I can't wait to see that backlash, when the pendulum swings back), but what are tips or tools for people who have projects, who want to collaborate online in some way? It's becoming this new tool that people are expected to be able to do, and I don't know that we're really trained for it at this point.

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Ask Britt: How can I combine the creative arts with social impact?

Have Fun - Do Good

Our web site serves as an international resource for anyone interested in the healing potential of art, especially environmentalists, social activists, artists, art professionals, health care practitioners, and those challenged by illness. We use song as a tool for organizing in communities around the country."

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