Grow Your Blog Community

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With Wix Blog, you’re not only sharing your voice with the world, you can also grow an active online community. That’s why the Wix blog comes with a built-in members area – so that readers can easily sign easily up to become members of your blog.

What can members do?

Members can follow each other, write and reply to comments and receive blog notifications. Each member gets their own personal profile page that they can customize.

Tip:

You can make any member of your blog a writer so they can write posts for your blog. Adding multiple writers is a great way to grow your content and keep it fresh and diversified.

Here’s how to do it:

  1. Head to your Member’s Page
  2. Search for the member you want to make a writer
  3. Click on the member’s profile
  4. Click the 3 dot icon ( ⠇) on the Follow button
  5. Select Set as Writer

Design a Stunning Blog

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When it comes to design, the Wix blog has everything you need to create beautiful posts that will grab your reader’s attention. Check out our essential design features.

Choose from 8 stunning layouts

Your Wix Blog comes with 8 beautiful layouts. From your blog’s settings, choose the layout that’s right for you. For example, a tiled layout is popular for helping visitors discover more posts that interest them. Or, choose a classic single column layout that lets readers scroll down and see your post topics one by one.

Every layout comes with the latest social features built in. Readers can easily share posts on social networks like Facebook and Twitter and view how many people have liked a post, made comments and more.

Add media to your posts

When creating your posts you can:

  • Upload images or GIFs
  • Embed videos and music
  • Create galleries to showcase a media collection

Customize the look of your media by making it widescreen or small and easily align media inside your posts.

Hashtag your posts

Love to #hashtag? Good news!

You can add tags (#vacation #dream #summer) throughout your posts to reach more people. Why hashtag? People can use your hashtags to search through content on your blog and find the content that matters to them. So go ahead and #hashtag away!

Now You Can Blog from Everywhere!

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We’ve made it quick and convenient for you to manage your blog from anywhere. In this blog post we’ll share the ways you can post to your Wix Blog.

Blogging from Your Wix Blog Dashboard

On the dashboard, you have everything you need to manage your blog in one place. You can create new posts, set categories and more. To head to your Dashboard, open the Wix Editor and click on Blog > Posts.

Blogging from Your Published Site

Did you know that you can blog right from your published website? After you publish your site, go to your website’s URL and login with your Wix account. There you can write and edit posts, manage comments, pin posts and more! Just click on the 3 dot icon ( ⠇) to see all the things you can do.

#bloggingtips #WixBlog

The VIPP Report: Kin Killin’ Kin Artist James Pate Visits Louisville

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(Louisville, KY) The Kentucky Center for African American Heritage is exhibiting James Pate’s KKK Series Kin Killin’ Kin Traveling Art Exhibition September 14 – November 12, 2018. The artist James Pate will give a gallery talk during the opening reception on Friday, September 21, 2018, 6:00 – 9:00 pm. Pate will discuss what motivated him to create Kin Killin’ Kin featuring scenes of young African-American men donned in Ku Klux Klan hoods committing acts of violence, creating an overt comparison between gang violence and the terrorism of the KKK. Pate says, “the numbers of Blacks killed by other Blacks since reconstruction far exceeds those lynched by “Whites”. Sadly, this pattern continued year after year, up to the present day”. The Center for Disease Control cites homicide as the leading cause of death for Black males between the age of 15 and 34.

Pate’s Kin Killin’ Kin is designed to shock and stop the viewer. Pate says “mainly, I want kids to pause and reflect”.

To close out the exhibition, a Youth Voices Against Violence Forum will held at the Heritage Center on Saturday, November 3, 2018, 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. During this forum, District 15 Councilwoman Cheri Bryant Hamilton will facilitate a panel of youth from our community who will discuss the themes of gun violence and other forms of violence occurring in our society today. This panel of youth will examine the themes of gun violence within the context of public health, bystander action, healing through arts, and mobilizing for change through community dialogues.

Kin Killin’ Kin curator Willis Bing Davis says, “art holds the power to promote change”. For Davis, that’s partly because art is a language that everyone understands. “It is the universal connection of the art,” he said. “Art is one of the things that touches all of us.” Art is also a liberating language, he says. “Sometimes the art can say something that we can’t say in words.”

The Heritage Center views this exhibition as a powerful tool to promote community dialogue and community action by delving deeper into the themes of the exhibit, highlighting current efforts in violence prevention in Metro Louisville and cultivating the youth voice in the community. The Heritage Center recognizes the increase in gun violence and its impact on the communities it serves and presents Kin Killin’ Kin for the community to take action.

If you would like to setup an interview and/or tour the exhibit, contact Sherlene Shanklin with VIPP Communications at 502-295-0435 or by email info@vippcommunications.com.  We hope you are able to post on your calendars so your viewers and/or listeners get an opportunity to see the exhibit while in Louisville.

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The VIPP Report: Inaugural DRIPFEST announces artist lineup

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INAUGURAL DRIPFEST ANNOUNCES OCTOBER 19TH LINEUP AT THE LOUISVILLE WATER TOWER PARK

(Louisville, KY) The music scene continues to grow in Louisville bringing in all types of genres.  Now, a rap music fest is coming to give you a diverse platform and several types of rap from southern to east coast rap.  DRIPFEST will be held on Friday, October 19th at the Louisville Water Tower Park, 3005 River Road.

This year’s headliner will be Tekashi 6ix9ine.  The artist known for his unconventional appearance but contagious lyrics and explosive stage performance that you normally see at a rock music concert.  Known for his 2018 hit “FeFe” featuring Nicki Manaj and Murda Beatz which debuted number #3 in the Hot 100. In 2017, his hit “GUMMO” also landed in the HOT 100 ranking. In April, he also released “Gotti” and created a music video in the Dominican Republic and donated money to people in need.

Also, performing at DRIPFEST on October 19th will be artists Dusty Leigh, BSimm, INDY Cut and BBlasian

To support area entrepreneurs, we will have a food trucks for you to purchase their specialty foods at an economical price.  Gates open at 6:30 pm. The show will begin at 8:00 pm. General admission tickets are $60 and VIP tickets are $75 with a special meet and greet. You can purchase tickets at Eventbrite.com or stop by Michael JS in Mall St. Matthews, 5000 Shelbyville Road; HairLaFlair Boutique, 1859 Berry Blvd; DBA Couture, 5017 Poplar Level Road; Lil Pat’s Barbershop, 821 North Wilson Road in Radcliff, KY; Better Days Records East, 1765 Bardstown Road and Better Days Records West, 2600 W. Broadway #104.

Be sure to tune into 98.9 FM and 93.1 FM to win tickets to DRIPFEST 2018 at the Louisville Water Tower on Friday, October 19th.

For additional information and/or to be a vendor, call 502-315-9443.

Please announce and/or post on your media platforms.  If you would like to setup an interview with the organizers of DRIPFEST or local artists performing contact VIPP Communications at info@vippcommunications.com.

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