Technology + Communications
When you create a blog, or a forum post, or a group posting on the website, you have the opportunity to select a group that the post is relevant to. The idea is that the members of these groups will automatically get an email that let's them know what was posted, and gives a direct link to the post.
This group is a ROOTS Workgroup, which means that it identifies itself around a particular body of work.
Ride From Atlanta to Baltimore and Back
Clear Creek Festival
Theater Development Funding Grant
Greater New Orleans Foundation Impact 2010 Grant RFP
Fund for the South Grant
The Fund for the South has a smallish grant for organizations in the South for goals like anti-racism programs.
See this website for details http://www.fundforsouth.org/apply_grant.htm
Grant for Anti-racism work in the South
Can Technology throw a party and save the whole Universe?
I went down to the city of New Orleans about a month ago in a quest to continue to explore how what I do for a living can make a difference for the world.
Don't worry, it wasn't all so serious.
New Orleans is a playground, and I definitely played with my little collection of familiar places and good heart connections. I love New Orleans because it's the kind of city that goes un-phased seeing someone riding down the street in a bicycle and covered entirely in silver paint, but screeches to a halt, mouths universally agape, when they see me going for my run in the morning. Granted, my running form is probably a sight to behold, but this city has an uncanny ability to simultaneously not grok me, and invite me into it's celebrations and ceremonies, anyhow.
Rent our Technology: making the technology ROOTs has developed available to the system.
So this is a hunch, but it's an educated one. The technology that was recently created for ROOTS (integrated website, membership, registration, directory and development systems) might be something that could potentially be very valuable to other organizations. If this is true for you, read on.
It would be in the best interests of an organization with a mission like ROOTS to facilitate that technology becoming available cost effectively to ROOTS organizations.
There are a couple of different scenarios and business models that would support something like that.
Facebook and ROOTS
ROOTers get ready, cause this might make your head spin: You can now share AlternateROOTS with your facebook world, simply by clicking the blue facebook 'share' link at the bottom of the page/s you want to publish and share with your facebook friends.
In addition, when you write a BLOG or a FORUM on the ROOTS site, it will automatically publish to the ROOTs facebook page (hint: lots more people will read it).
And thirdly, people can now become facebook fans of ROOTS from the ROOTs homepage.
Can I get an AMEN?
Website Redesign take 2
This is a final call for folks who are interested in having a say regarding the idrection of the new site design. I am trying to get the group to participate for a variety of reasons:
1. to save money. if i do it myself and folks don't like parts of it, it will take more time/money on my end.
2. this is a group of artists who like to have a say, and if you do not jump in at this point, your say will have much less weight.
Please email me (ana at alternateroots dot org) and:
1. give me 5 adjectives describing what the site might look/feel like.
2. give me examples of other aesthetics/sites/publications that we might get inspired by or have been inspired by in the past.
National Dance Project Accepting Applications for Production Grants
http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/rfp/rfp_item.jhtml?id=271300019
National Dance Project Accepting Applications for Production Grants
Posted on October 29, 2009Deadline: March 2, 2009 (Round 1 Application)Administered by the New England Foundation for the Arts,
the National Dance Project provides a system of support for
contemporary dance by supporting the creation (production) and
engagement (touring) of dance in the United States and beyond.
NDP's production grants fund the creation of new dance work that
Technology Strategy for 2010
Alternate ROOTS Strategic Plan 2010-2013 Summary
The Alternate ROOTS strategic plan, developed over 18 months of work by ROOTS staff, members, and consultants, articulates the next set of changes for Alternate ROOTS. The process and the product of strategic planning have deepened ROOTS commitment to the value of art as a catalyst for social change, economic justice and other forms of oppression. Alternate ROOTS is ready for a new level of relevance, through connections made across generations of artists. ROOTS envisions providing a fertile ground for knowledge-building and reciprocal learning, now and far into the future.
Basic English Lessons for ROOTers…
Basic English Lessons for ROOTers…
Many ROOTS members are not writers as their first discipline, but we communicate every day through email, proposals, etc. Please take a few minutes to review the most frequent violations of the English language spotted in ROOTS communiqués.
Its – is a possessive. For example, “its place,” “its function,” “its proper usage…”
Roles + Responsibilities of the TechComm
(otherwise known as the technology and communications workgroup ;)
This is intended as an update/report for this team that I will also be presenting at the ExComm meeting. Please place comments below if you are interested in adding parts or have questions.
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The TechComm is composed of the folks who are getting this email. If you believe there is a dire error in this, please also comment here to say so.
Review of Projects:
WonderRoot Launches Literary and Visual Art Magazine Project
WonderRoot Launches Literary and Visual Art Magazine Project
Loose Change: a literary collection of community voices
Atlanta, GA
WonderRoot, a non-profit organization located in Reynoldstown announces the launch of a new literary and visual art magazine called Loose Change. Loose Change is a publication that strives to facilitate a supportive artistic environment for those who seek to express themselves in the world of literary and visual arts. We are devoted to allowing participants to explore their craft, allowing range of language and medium while participating in an evolving dialogue. We are committed to being a nurturing theater of learning for those who seek aesthetic growth.
October 9, 2009
Jo Carson, a founding member of Alternate ROOTS, is in the midst of a pitched battle with colon cancer.
Jo has been a self-supporting artist for more than 30 years. Since quality, affordable health insurance is extremely difficult for independent artists to obtain, the insurance coverage Jo has is utterly insufficient to her current need – her policy will cover her surgery, but not the extensive chemotherapy and radiation she is currently under-going.
You can help by making a donation through ROOTS to Jo's Medical Expenses Campaign. Please click here to make that important contribution.
Fractured Atlas Membership
Dear ROOTS members,
Any ROOTers out there a member of Fractured Atlas through ROOTS... or want to be?
ROOTS is a member of Fractured Atlas and they offer health insurance to artists...
and I would like to get some.
Please let me know and we can organize.
Membership is cheap when you are part of a group.
$150/year or $15.00/month Access for 3 people in your group
Additional users are $25/year or $2.50/month
Access to all programs and services
Peace.
Hope
New Orleans ROOTS Website Training
I will be in New Orlean's between the 21st and the 27th, but my time there is already filling up, so we kind of need to really get clear on how this is going to get organized and I need help from folks.
Here is what needs done:
1. We need to get a venue for the training with WiFi and maybe 20 or so places for people to sit.
2. We need for someone on the ground in NOLA to set up a time for this, and to fill the room with warm bodies.
If people start chiming in and sending contact emails to me, then I can also take on some of this organizing.
Thanks, people. As always, you can comment directly here by clicking the 'add new comment' link below.
