This excellent LunaMetrics post by Dan Wilkerson includes an infographic & table with information about how to size images for more effective use in social media. Very useful for freelancers, bloggers, artists, educators, writers, and anyone needing to communicate visually across a variety of social media platforms.

Best of all -- this resource ( Read more... )

A Romanization table of the Cherokee Alphabet has been approved by the American Library Association (ALA) ALCTS Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access (CC:DA).  The table was approved by the Cherokee Tri-Council meeting in Cherokee, North Carolina.   Read more about this at the Cherokee One Feather site.

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Thanks to the @HerFilm Twitter feed for this link:  a list of global crowdfunding websites.

The page has an overly busy visual design, but scroll down for a list of crowdfunding websites in various countries. Create and promote your own project or someone else's project.  The majority of the sites seem to be based in North American or western ( Read more... )

Here's a useful resource for Pride Month:

Theorizing Homophobias in the Caribbean: Complexities of Place, Desire, and Belonging
www.caribbeanhomophobias.org/

"A digital multimedia collection of activist reports, creative writing, critical essays, film, interviews, music, and visual and performance art reflecting the complexities of homophobias in ( Read more... )

The Eldis Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Change website provides links to resource guides, online films, and related information. This appears to be a rather extensive website, inclusive of collaborative projects. ( Read more... )

Happily interested in this: "A blog by the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art and partners in conjunction with the “African Cosmos: Stellar Arts” exhibition opening in June 2012."

The blog will feature weekly posts exploring  "the meaning the cosmos holds for various cultures past and present, and to discover the rich astronomical ( Read more... )

Courtesy of Tech Soup, some good suggestions for nonprofit organizations.

Computer Refurbishment and Accessibility

Digital Images of Yale’s Vast Cultural Collections Now Available for Free