Cathee Weiss is a serious woman of conviction to watch. As you know I appreciate and support powerful women. Wednesdays in Mississippi is a documentary about women dedicated to a cause taking risks to work for change during an important historical time in 1964. I recently attended an event to introduce the producers of Wednesdays in Mississippi.

Cathee Weiss

is a producer of numerous award-winning projects, her recent credits include television specials for ABC/Disney on school reform entitled "Schools That Work", KCET's award-winning show, "California Connected," the feature documentary "The Hunting of the President," and a series of one hour films for educators entitled, "Creativity in the Classroom" produced in collaboration with Harvard School of Education and the Disney Company. She works extensively with non-profits (Feminist Majority, Para Los Ninos, Alliance for Climate Protection, Exceptional Children's Foundation, After School All-Stars, among others) to create strategic communications viewed across digital platforms. She managed the non-fiction division of Mozark Productions where she oversaw and collaborated on numerous nationally recognized political films, including the 1992, 1996 and 2000 National Democratic Convention films, including "The Man From Hope."

The Film

The only civil rights project run by a national women’s organization, “Wednesdays in Mississippi” (WIMS) was the brainchild of National Council of Negro Women President, Dorothy Height and her close friend, Polly Cowan. Their plan brought Black and White women from Northern cities like Boston, New York, and Chicago into Mississippi in 1964 during Freedom Summer.

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Flowtown - Social Media Marketing Application

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Producing a valuable infographic requires a significant amount of work and talent. It is worth it because the company that commissions the infographic has a vehicle to drive traffic back to their website. Infographics are published in such a way that when they are used by others, they link back to the originator.

The disturbing trend is to link together several existing infographics and list the original links to give the producer credit but wiithout giving an actual link.

These are the two items I found just this morning:

http://blog.datajack.com/broadband-internet-speeds/

This promotes a commercial site. I accidentally re-pinned this on Pinterest, then removed it when I realized what it was.

http://www.davidrisley.com/blogging-platforms-compared/

This has inaccuracies, at least about WordPress. I noticed it again on Pinterest and followed it to the source in the interest of commenting on the inaccuracy about WordPress. The pin was to a blog post at JeffBullas.com.

Jeff has produced interesting success by creating blog posts using several infographics on one topic. The people who comment on them apparently have no clue what an infographic is because they comment as though Jeff created rather than curated the infographics. Jeff links back appropriately and no criticism is intended to his work - except that in choosing infographics - I would avoid this rehash no-link type.

As publishers we should have an obligation to give credit to creators of work. In the case of infographics, really that should be a link.

I want to publish this to my Social Media Infographic board on Pinterest which means it needs a "proper" social media infographic visual. Here is one by Argyle Social. The only thing I'd like to see that I don't is the name of the designer. I think it is nice when that is included, especially if it is done by an outside company, the design company should be included as well.

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This beach scene on the south shore of Kauai was taken in front of Lava's at 6:30 PM right before meeting Judy and Allan for dinner there. It was our first time here. Judy and Allan really like it and said we hit an off night. But the beach is beautiful. Fish and chips or a burger are not options for me. There weren't enough healthy choices on the menu for me. So few restaurant designers have figured out lighting. Unfortunately, neither has this one. Seating choices are between harsh over-lighting and dark. No sector lighting, all on one switch which can be turned up or down. Lighting is a very important element in a restaurant. The ladies should always look pretty but you should be able to see your food. Lava is relatively new and we haven't given up on them.

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