We receive a steady stream of emails updating us on events, activities and feature stories on various Web sites. We also get notes from our blogger friends about new series and features on their blogs. We thought we’d share a few of our favorites with you today to give you some insight into what we find most interesting and relevant to advancing the conversation about gay and lesbian communications:
- Dana Rudolph of Mombian regularly features information and resources of value to lesbian moms (and to all gay parents, really). If you’re wondering how best to communicate with gay parents as an audience, visit Mombian to learn more about what motivates gay parents and the issues they care about. Check out her most recent "LGBT Parenting Roundup" for background on the latest developments across the country affecting LGBT parents.
- Joe LaMuraglia of GayWheels.com needs no introduction to regular Advocate readers who have noticed the regular auto review features Joe and his team have been writing. Gaywheels.com covers the auto industry like no one else in our community and provides information about the auto industry leaders doing the most to reach our community. Check out their regularly updated list of top 10 researched vehicles to gain an understanding of the cars our community is most interested in.
- Nina Smith and the team at Queercents focus on finance, accounting and personal budgeting for LGBT people (I love their site tagline: "We’re Here, We’re Queer and We’re Not Going Shopping without Coupons"). Reading their posts gives you a great sense of how to communicate with our community about money and financial issues and just what we care about the most when it comes to our wallets and pocketbooks. And don’t miss their ongoing 10 Money Questions series which features insightful interviews with well-known gay people about their views on money: the newest interview with Mariah Hanson (founder of The Dinah) is really interesting.
- Michael Lamb’s Echelon Magazine bills itself as "the source for GLBT business professionals" and features news and information about business communications efforts relevant to our community. They’re a good resource for the latest news on business initiatives, consumer and other survey results and related activities. Check out their recent story on the Air New Zealand "Pink Flight" if you’re interested in the latest on this marketing effort that we covered extensively last fall.
Note that you can visit these sites and blogs anytime by clicking on the links to the left. If you visit any of our friends, come back and let us know what you think. And please let us know your favorites, particularly if they include sites that we don’t list: we’re always interested in learning about additional LGBT communications resources on the Web.
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