For you.
In our ongoing efforts to improve Feministe and keep content coming, we’re going to be adding a few regular features. The first, as I mentioned in a previous post, is Feministe Feedback — a weekly (or as often as we receive them) question for the peanut gallery about how to deal with various real-life feminist issues. If you have a question for Feministe Feedback, we’d love to hear it — email us at feministe -at- gmail.com.
The second thing is that you can now help us to spread feminist messages ’round the interwebs. Tools like Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon and other content aggregators are great resources for people of all political persuasions to find news, opinion and other information. So we’ve added a “Bookmark” button at the end of all of our posts — just scroll your mouse over it, and you can add Feministe posts to Digg, MySpace, Reddit, Furl, StumbleUpon, Del.icio.us, Facebook and more. You can also add posts to your favorites and your Google bookmarks with one easy click. And, not to be too obnoxiously self-promoting, but we would really love it if you would Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon, etc our posts, and other feminist posts that you like — the more we spread the feminist message the better, right?
Another feature we’re going to be adding is a weekly highlight of a blog we love. We try to link to other blogs as much as possible, but there are a lot of good ones that just don’t get the attention they deserve. So every Wednesday, we’ll be highlighting one of our favorites. (No catchy name for this feature yet, but we’re accepting suggestions). That’ll start today.
Lastly, this isn’t a Feministe thing, but it’s worth mentioning: Feministing has started a meet-up alliance so that feminists across the country can get together in person. It’s a great tool, so check it out.
Further suggestions for how we can improve Feministe are always welcome.
These are all really great features! Yeay for building a feminist community :)
I just wanted to say how much I love, love, LOVE this blog. Feministe, along with Pandagon and Crooks & Liars, help keep me sane in this very puritanical country.
Yay! I already try to use StumbleUpon on your posts, it will be great to see others doing so too.
The only problem with Digging Feministe posts is that the comments over at Digg would undoubtedly make me want to slam my head in a door repeatedly. Still, maybe they just need more exposure to feminist ideas.
Ideas on how to improve Feministe… well ya know it would be nice if you kept the liquor cabinet stocked. Who drank all the tequila???
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Huzzah! It all sounds awesome.
Side note – the Bookmark button is slick, but would it be possible to have it right-aligned? As it is, occasionally I mouse over it by accident while going to read comments, and then the pop-over obscures the comment link. Inconvenient.
Oooh… I agree with Cadence. It has been driving me nuts. Good tool though. Just bad placement.
Your other ideas are amazing, as usual. I swear, I learn everything from this blog.
What Cadence said. It’s a minor complaint for sure, and way less annoying than those crazy floating ads that took over Feministing a while ago or Pandagon’s captchas…
Really happy to see the “blogs we love” feature. I try to have something written for shameless self-promotion Sundays, but I’ll admit that I often don’t read more than five or ten of the comments there, so it’s nice to have someone do the work for me!
I’ll try to right-align it.