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The Difference Between Blogging and Great Blogging
So you're blogging, or you want to start blogging...but you want to do it well, and hopefully attract some readers. The key to good blogging is to write well. Jay Gabler, associate editor of the Twin Cities Daily Planet and author of the Front Row Seat blog, offers a two-hour class on writing, etiquette, and promotional tips for bloggers. What information should you offer? How much of "yourself" should you put in your blog? How long should blog entries be? How do you connect with other bloggers and share your blog with people who might be interested?
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Twin Cities Indymedia Presents: Movement Mediamaking For the Masses
Do you want to grow radical social movements? Do you want skills for chronicling and fighting injustice in the Twin Cities? Do you want to add mediamaking tools to your toolbox? Then you can be more than a citizen journalist - you can be a radical movement mediamaker. If this could be you, then, this March: [dramatic movie voiceover voice; cut to montage] Join activists across the Twin Cities metro area in connecting movements and leveraging our power. Three participatory class sessions will culminate in an optional fun community event at which participants can present their collective work, which will also be featured on www.tc.indymedia.org.
Because this is NOT simply a "citizen journalism" course, participants should have an interest/investment in social justice activism and a general agreement with the Indymedia mission statement and principles of unity (found below and at http://twincities.indymedia.org/page/info).
Also note that this course will go beyond completion of the final session. We want people like you to be better equipped to continue having fun making radical media for the benefit of Twin Cities Social movements. We want you to stay involved with telling the stories that reflect our communities. Radical media does not bring justice by itself, but is a role all freedom fighters can and should take a turn at filling. Join us and help make it happen!
We intend for this class to be an intergenerational space committed to anti-oppression practice, including but not limited to the challenging of white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, classism, and transphobia.
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