In my last post, I introduced the basic concepts of website accessibility, and how making your website more accessible will benefit everyone. Based on that, here are six accessibility improvements that you can work on for your site right away.

By now you’ve probably heard numerous rallying cries advocating the need for diversity, representation and inclusion. It seems that each day there are new headlines either exposing the lack of diversity in X industry or celebrating the moves towards it in another. These aren’t just buzzwords or the latest trends in the business world. It’s simply a reflection of a very real flaw in our society that demands to be addressed. According to the US Census Bureau, America is becoming increasingly diverse with all racial and ethnic minorities growing at a faster rate than whites from 2015 to 2016. In fact, it’s projected that people of colour will make up the majority of America’s population by 2043 – that’s just a little over two decades from today!  And that’s just diversity in terms of race and ethnicity. That doesn’t even address the growing diversity in […]

Every day at Mediavine, our favorite thing is to hear how blogging changes lives.  Whether it’s learning new skills that can shape your career or earning a full-time income from things like sponsored work and Mediavine ad revenue, being a publisher is a pretty awesome job.  That’s why we loved hearing how our publisher Betsy Eves of JavaCupcake has been teaching others what she has learned about blogging.  Betsy currently works at Operation Gratitude as the Wounded Hero & Caregiver Program Director, but she also teaches blogging classes to the military community through her work at the Dog Tag Inc. Fellowship Program and the Elizabeth Dole Foundation Military and Caregiver Fellows.  She asked us to contribute by taking part in a recent Blogging 101 webinar and an upcoming workshop in Washington, D.C. (More on these below!) We in turn asked Betsy to come on the Mediavine […]

There’s no question that working from home has advantages. We wear our pajama pants to virtual meetings, make our own hours and can do a load of laundry in the middle of the work day.  But if you’re anything like the Mediavine team, it can also come with a big challenge: SEPARATION of job (church) and home (state).  One of the best strategies we rely on to maintain sanity is organization, and for that, we’re fortunate to have specialist Sara Volk. She’s our Office Manager, aka project manager, keeper of the spreadsheets, birthdays, addresses, travel plans, meeting times and a million other things that we don’t even know about because she’s GOT them.  We’re so in awe of her strategies and skills that we asked her to put her best tips in one place, so we could pass them on to you guys.  Without further […]