About us
We are a loose collaborative of folks that have worked in the arts, tech and politics.
Guiding principles
- build simple solutions
- demystify tech
- embrace a minimalist aesthetic
- center accessibility
- model & teach reusable, mappable skills
- build tech that supports content and communications
- build with a plan b & c in mind: build redundance into the system
- build multi-threaded channels of communication
- be agile, adaptive and flexible to meet a rapidly changing world
- build affordable solutions
- be multi-modal in nature: embrace channels that span face-to-face, print, web, email
- facilitate fluid, rapid transition between personal data (like email addresses) and anonymous, transferable points of contact
- center an ongoing skill share that respects people's very busy schedules in these overwhelming times
- choose to archive rather than erase
- remember that we are writing history ::: resonate & amplify the now but also record history in the making ::: record stories & shape the narrative
- center text-first in written communications. Images are great. Posters are colorful means to promote events but make it a priority to also provide text information outside the frozen image.
- liberate content: apply formattting & styling & platform specifics as a final part of the publishing process. think of content as data : a reusable core resource
- build libraries not advertising brands
- build hypertext, relational, interlinked information environments that encourage traversal ::: that empower exploration and deep dive opportunities
- facilitate quick, easy access to a rapidly shifting news and action landscape. couple brief summaries with "learn more" and "take action" links to source information and calls to action
- encourage open source, creative commons, duplication ::: make it easy for others to copy our content
- touching both the surface content and the meta-structure revealed in the underlying code/markup helps us think
- the visible text and the underlying semantic structure of a document both matter ::: be a web writer
- hypertext writing facilitates a clear declaration of the relationships within a text and between texts
- avoid web builders which so often create code bloat and opaque, inaacessible documents
- keep learning together in a rapidly changing technology landscape with all its promise & its perils
Collaborators include:
- Kathy McTavish
- mctavish.work
- Wildwood River Press
- wildwoodriver.com
- datapoets
- datapoets.com
- River Box Press
- riverboxpress.com
& the organizations we serve such as: