The various musical and promotional projects collected under ‘go! media needed a website that collected their multiple social networking identities into one place. The site is based on WordPress, uses Widget Logic and Sociable (two of my favorite plug-ins) and is a slightly altered version of the Old Popular Yolk theme. Each of the artist/project pages include links to each member’s social networking presence, which is the primary way they promote their events.
As part of a complete web makeover for the Oak Park Regional Housing Center, which maintains two websites currently and is planning a third, I redesigned their organizational page – www.oprhc.org, transforming their previous wordpress-hosted blog into a new website.
Over the weekend, I put together a quick-and-dirty conference website for the Metropolitan Area Research Corporation and the Gamaliel Foundation. Together they are sponsoring the Building One America summit this September in Washington D.C. to push for federal policies that promote regional equity and opportunity. The summit promises to be an inspiring event, and I hope to see you there. The site is built on WordPress and is using a lightly-altered version of the Big City theme.
You can register for the conference and learn how to become a co-sponsor at www.BuildingOneAmerica.org.
From the Community Media Workshop’s “The NEW news: The Journalism We Want and Need” report:
While the lines continue to blur among the quality and types of content produced by traditional media and their Web-based counterparts — including amateurs, hobbyists and start-ups — the battle over distribution is just heating up.
Wall Street Journal editor Robert Thomson recently wrote of Web sites, like Google, that aggregate content without paying fees to the content creators, “There is no doubt that certain Web sites are best described as parasites or tech tapeworms in the intestines of the Internet.”
This criticism of aggregation without payment has merit but misses the broader point. Once traditional media operations opened themselves up to search engines and began sharing their stories in RSS feeds, the cat was out of the bag. Disconnecting their online presence from the rest of the Internet simply isn’t an option, and nearly all experiments with Internet-only subscription fees have been unsustainable.
This article is part of a larger report on the state of journalism and local information in Chicago, commissioned by the Chicago Community Trust as part of the Knight Information Needs effort. The full report is available online here.