Clarity Solutions celebrates Gay Pride for the wellbeing of our entire community.
We urge all citizens of Minnesota to vote NO on the marriage amendment in 2012, and to help organize the defeat of that amendment until then. The constitution is not about discriminating against groups of people. Our community is most well when all members of our community are well.
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The DAILY s-PRESS reviews briefly CCLaP’s newest release, the futuristic Life After Sleep!
Always exciting to see the word get out.. Congrats Mark Brand (author) and Jason Pettus (publisher)!
CCLaP Publishing is an imprint of the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography (CCLaP), an organization dedicated to promoting the best of the underground and cutting-edge arts.
Filed under Chicago, Fun, Publishing
Can you match these theaters with their Mission Statement?
The twin cities is of course known for its vibrant theater community (more theaters per person than NYC!), and Kathy’s blog brings fresh insight every month.
Try her quiz and see how many you get right!
(Two weeks of early Fun – we’ll have to be extra serious next week!)
Filed under Fun, Local, Minneapolis, Site-Members, St. Paul
For Fun Friday this week, here are some items for your enjoyment:
River Art from Friends of the Mississippi River!
Energy FunFest with the Neighborhood Energy Connection, coming soon on April 9.
And Coffee House Press celebrates St.Patrick’s Day with literary conversations:
Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig, or Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Andrea brought in delicious stout cupcakes and Tricia baked some traditional Irish soda bread. And everyone is in green! What’s your favorite Irish movie, Irish writer, or Irish song? (The Quiet Man, Joseph O’Neill, Fields of Athenry)
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Radio Trivia Madnesss just one week away!
And more skating this winter, woo-hoo!
Also Music!
On Saturday, February 5, the Twin Cities Women’s Choir will meet with traditional Irish musicians, the HiBs and special guests for an interesting and potentially powerful mashup called Celtic Fire. This article about it written by Ann Treacy, site-member (Treacy Information Services)!
First, here’s the Brickfish contest link, which I’m involved in through a family member.
Ok, so last week was frenzy week, establishing web presence right and left, Tweeting and Stumbling and LiveJournaling and everything. Take away: there is a LOT going on in the internets! There are many choices to make and intentionalities to establish. I am excited about the nuances and varieties available for every possible message to every single particular distinct audience. Breathtaking!
Secondly, the contest itself has been like an amusement park ride. I’ve learned a lot through it.
It does provide gratification – when you post to another platform and there are votes – it shows on the viral map! But the gratification is delayed, and is not in a 1:1 correspondence with reality – the numbers for each platform are, I think, a proportion – but am not sure. I’m sure they aren’t votes specifically or views specifically either. So there’s response to action, but also a kind of looseness that makes it even more interesting sort of. I’ve learned about various platforms, and also about the Brickfish contest itself.
Sometimes I’ve learned about Brickfish that there is nothing to ‘learn’ – that sufficient information is not available. And that’s fine.. I would just like to know beyond that point sometimes.. For instance, I’m very curious about ‘other,’ which has aggregated a lot of activity. I first thought that was where sites with less activity were accumulated, but Hi5 and Xanga and MySpace showed up with ’1′ and ’2′ and so on. Kind of rules that out. So now I’m wondering – is it sites not based in the US? Non-English-language sites? Some whole other categorization completely? Would love to know..
I like the viral map a lot, but since all of us established it on so many platforms, it got really teensy tiny. And it doesn’t genie! Would be cool if it did the Apple-Dock thing, expanding on mouse-over, then contracting again.
You can expand the whole viral map, which makes it not fit in the window, then you can move the map around to see all of it bit by bit. So that works.
Also the Geo view is very interesting. According to it, all the views from Minnesota (where we’re from) total only about 1/4 of the views of this picture. I find that very surprising – I mean I appreciate everyone’s interest, but really? Just surprises me.
Then the whole mechanics as far as how often it was possible to vote, that’s been provocative. At first it was clearly once every 12 hours per browser/os/computer. Then sometimes the waiting period was 10 hours. Then… sometimes only 3 hours! Sometimes the browser would say ‘you can vote again in 7 hours’ for instance, I’d refresh half an hour later and it would say ‘you can vote in 1 hr’. I don’t know what to make of it! That sort of thing can almost become compelling, in and of itself.
Overall, I have to say it’s been a great fit for my own process, since I have this entity (Clarity Solutions) and my site-members and all, and I’ve been wanting to explore platforms and become more proficient with Hootsuite and all. It’s been Completely Perfect for that process of mine. Like when I was learning a new language, and at that point was working in the suburbs and had an hour-long commute, and so could listen to my language CD the whole time. A perfect fit.
I hope I haven’t been too pushy about it! On the other hand, any views/votes always welcome, and any ideas about further promotions (runs till 2/9) are very welcome! But also about staying this side of excessive..
Win/win is always my goal!
Filed under Fun, Social Media
Our local paper highlighted today the strengths and sustainability of our local bookstore in this great article!
This links to one of the other Clarity Solutions blogs I’ve also just established.. am figuring out which content will go where even as we speak. But thought I’d make it available.
And what the link is for is a brand new song by the group CrossTex out of Germany! My cousin there is in it so there may be further postings as well, and there are some past songs I may also post.
Enjoy!
Filed under Fun
And more wintry treats! Mmm..
