Introducing Blog4Culture
A New Platform for Your Ideas

August 19, 2009 — This month, we're very excited to be launching Blog4Culture at blog.4culture.org. This is the brand new *news* section of 4Culture, designed with some special features in mind to make it more accessible and tailored to YOU, our constituents.

With Blog4Culture you are always just one click away from knowing the most up-to-date news at 4Culture. Whereas our old news format was sent via email just once a month, we'll be posting new funding opportunities, calls for artists, regional job opportunities, recommended events and stories about culture in King County weekly, even daily. As soon as we know about them, you’ll know about them, if you keep tabs on Blog4Culture.

Once you get to Blog4Culture you can sort all the posted stories by category or archive month. So you want to look back and see what's been happening in the Gallery4Culture, or you want to browse our heritage news, or see what questions your peers have had over the months by reading "Ask4Culture" posts… all you have to do is click on the category name on the right and the blog will sort the info for you! For those of you savvy with RSS feeds, you can also sign up for RSS feeds for our categories and stay in touch with us daily. Just click the orange boxes next to the categories that interest you.

Perhaps most exciting to me, our blog allows you to join the discussion. We love conversation about culture and our communities in King County. We want to hear from you. We encourage you to join us in dialogue and comment on Blog4Culture, and we don't expect everyone to agree. However, we will monitor comments on Blog4Culture and will not post any comments that contain personal attacks, hate speech or offensive language.

With all these changes, it only seemed right to re-design our monthly enews to merge with the blog. Those of you on the list will still receive an email from us about once a month - linking you to the top stories or conversations on the blog.