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IndieWeb Inspirational Cards

I’ve been tinkering with and test driving some various image creation tools.  To test them and simultaneously have some fun, I made a series of creative inspirational cards/inspirational posters/postcards for the IndieWeb. All the images are royalty free from Pixabay, and I’m releasing the text and additional work with a CC0 license. Feel free to download and use them to your hearts’ content. They should hopefully all be relatively well-sided for sharing on social media.

I’d love to hear folks’ thoughts about them in general.

Click any of the images below for a slideshow presentation view.

an orange Riviera typewriter angled on a black leather couch superimposed with the text "Your words. Your way. indieweb.org"
jar of thin paint spotted paintbrushes superimposed with the text "The web is your canvas. Which brush will you choose? indieweb.org"
tubes of acrylic paint and a paint brush superimposed with the text "The web is your canvas. Don't let a corporation limit you. indieweb.org"
blueprints superimposed with the text "The home you've always wanted on the internet. indeiweb.org"
fresh tomatoes, spaghetti, and basil on a wooden table superimposed with the text "Slow Social: Try eating what you cook on your own website. Rely less on the unhealthy fast food of corporate social media. indieweb.org"
a dilapidated barn and grain silo with the superimposed text "Don't let your content rot in the dilapidated corporate social media silos. indieweb.org"
view of a sunny green vineyard in a valley superimposed with the words "Reap what you sow. Plant your content into the field of your own website. indieweb.org"
two hands knitting a green swatch superimposed with the words "Knit your own web identity. indieweb.org"
a sheep's head looks condescendingly down at the viewer superimposed with the text "Why are you posting your content to social media instead of your own website? indieweb.org"
sun shining down on a person in front of a vibrant forest superimposed with the text "The IndieWeb is a people-focused alternative to the 'corporate web'. indieweb.org"
dreamy view of grass and a forest through which the sun is rising superimposed with the text "Happy Newww.Year! indieweb.org"
a black audio soundboard with various controls superimposed with the text "All our amps go to eleven. indieweb.org"
a person with a rainbow umbrella stands in the midst of a structured tunnel looking out at blue sky and trees superimposed with the text "Figure out how you want to fit into the network. indieweb.org"
black and white image of floating umbrellas with a single yellow umbrella in the center superimposed with the words "Do your own thing. indieweb.org"
View of a desk with a typewriter, notebook, glasses, a book, a decorative pinecone, a slide box with superimposed text "All the tools you need to create your own space. indieweb.org"
Hundreds of knobs on a control board superimposed with text "Control you don't typically find in social media. indieweb.org"
View over the shoulder of a female architect working on blueprints superimposed with the text "Build the internet home you've always wanted. indieweb.org"
a bare, but somehow lit lightbulb on a wooden table superimposed with "The bright idea corporate social media missed. indieweb.org"
close up of the type arms in a typewriter with the superimposed text "Who needs a billion dollar typewriter? Type it for your website. indieweb.org"
black and white photo of apples with the one in the middle being red. Overlaid texts reads "Not all social media is the same. indieweb.org"
Background image of a forest and mountains covered in haze superimposed with the words "Once the haze of 2020 lifts, consider a healthier way to manage your online identity and social media. indieweb.org"
Watched Improve your memory in 4 minutes with Yanjaa from YouTube
Yanjaa, the IKEA Human Catalogue shares her mind palace technique. Perfect if you want to remember passwords, anniversaries or if you want your child to do well in studies via creative learning.
This is a clever bit of marketing on Ikea’s part. She gets to show of some memory techniques and in doing so she highlights some of their products.
Read Standards Watch: Introduction (Backpacking Light)
Intro to a monthly column that explains important backpacking product standards, interviews key people, and analyzes industry standards.
This is an interesting area and highlights the fact that marketing and standards can sometimes subsume the actual facts and make it that much harder for people to make informed choices. This sort of investigative work and comparison becomes important to help level the playing field, but then again, finding sources like this is yet another task in itself.
Read A black, female-owned company was flooded with hate speech and 1-star reviews after it was featured in a Target commercial (CNN)
A black female-owned feminine hygiene company was bombarded with negative reviews and online abuse after it was featured in a Target commercial, but its founder says the experience has "turned out to be a really beautiful thing."
The story really never got into what the controversy was about. I suspect it’s missing some necessary context?
Watched Welcome to Winona (Big Game 2020 Film) from Squarespace | YouTube

Winona embarks on journey of self discovery to find the true Winona. First stop: Winona.
View Winona’s photo essay at https://www.WelcomeToWinona.com

I’m not sure I quite got the shorter version that aired during the Super Bowl.

I do quite like their tagline here of “A website makes it real”.

Read How I did a Twitter giveaway, got 10K+ new followers and discovered you can hack most giveaways to win them (levels.io)
It was almost New Year's Eve and I wanted to do something special on Twitter. I had 69,800 followers and because I admittedly am an imperfect and superficial human addicted to vanity metrics, I wanted to get to 70,000 followers before midnight and it becoming 2020. To celebrate

My friend Marc again to the rescue. He suggested that since there was 10,000+ people RT’ing and following, I could just pick a random follower from my current total follower list (78,000 at this point), then go to their profile to check if they RT’d it and see. If they didn’t, get another random follower and repeat, until you find someone. With 78,000 followers this should take about ~8 tries. ❧

Technically he said it would be random among those who retweeted, but he’s chosen a much smaller subset of people who are BOTH following him and who retweeted it. Oops!
Annotated on January 13, 2020 at 01:10PM

So, based on your write up it sounds like you’re saying that if one retweeted, but wasn’t following you, one had no chance of winning. This means a few thousand people still got lost in the shuffle. Keep in mind that some states have laws regarding lotteries, giveaways, games like this. Hopefully they don’t apply to you or your jurisdiction.