Category: Updates
March 14, 2006
Follow-up from Howard Henry Chen
We recently received the following email from Howard Henry Chen regarding this entry:
hi there,
you guys listed the show at the MoCP on vietnam that i was in. i've been meaning to thank for some months now for running my photograph on your site.
(november 29, 2005).
and in the shameless self-promotion department: i had my website re-done, in case you were interested.
http://www.howardhenrychen.com
in any case, thank you again for the mention.
best,
Howard Henry Chen
posted in Updates by Nate C - link - comments (0) - trackbacks (0)
July 6, 2005
We're back...and better than ever
Welcome to the new and improved Chicago Photobloggers website, serving the greater metropolitan Chicago area including southern Wisconsin and northwestern Indiana. Our crack team has been hard at work designing and implementing the new site over the past month or so using the Movable Type content management system. Among the new features are an events calendar, a meetup/shootout calendar and a gallery that links directly from our Chicago Photobloggers photo pool on Flickr.
Special thanks go to two members of the team whose incredibly hard work and talent made this all possible: Pablo Korona, who came up the sleek redesign and graphics, and our webmaster, Rod Gedey who ran with Pablo's design and used his amazing Movable Type and CSS coding talents to make it all happen. Many thanks to you both. To paraphrase King Faisal in Lawrence of Arabia, what we owe both of you is beyond estimation.
Now it's your turn to help. This site is only good as its content. We're looking for articles, posts and links that deal with photography and photoblogging in general and Chicago metro area photoblogging in particular. Got any tips or tricks to share? Perhaps it's a current photo exhibition that's coming up. Or you know of a great place that you think our next meetup/shootout should be. Maybe you want to feature a particular metro Chicago photoblogger whose work you admire. To become a contributor to these virtual pages, give us a holler at chicagophotoblogs@gmail.com. We'll set you up with a user id and password in order to be able to post to the site.
For those of you who have contributed in the past, you will need to contact us so we can give you an new user id and password to start. And if you're new to these pages and have a metro Chicago area photoblog that you want listed on our blogroll, let us know and we'll get it up there right away.
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January 9, 2005
Call for meet-up photos
Hey all,
It was good to put names to the URLs that I've been looking at. I apologize for not being able to stay for as long as I would like to, but for the time I was there it was a lot of fun. As per everyone's enthusiasm about Flickr, I'm going to start up a Chicago photoblogs Flickr account. I've never used Flickr before, but I'd like to get a photostream up on this site. If you took some shots from the meet-up, send some to chicagophotoblogs@gmail.com and I'll get a Flickr photostream up and running this week.
And thank you to Nick, for setting all of this up! We'll buy you some drinks...er...non-alcoholic, of course.
posted in Updates by roderick - link - comments (2) - trackbacks (0)
December 19, 2004
Thank you and continual improvements
First of all, I'd like to thank Chicagoist, Gapers Block, and Chicago Metblog for putting our name out there for Chicago bloggers to see. Their help was instrumental in helping us get our feet off the ground.
For those of you who are on our ever-growing photoblogroll, please remember to provide some link back to us! Use the provided button there in the sidebar and make sure it links back to us. Help spread the word! Tell your friends, Romans, and countrymen!
Here are some things that are going on behind the scenes:
- I've added horizontal rules to appear below each comment. It makes it a lot easier to read them.
- I'm going to continuously add links to the sidebar to Chicago photography resources. Things that I have in mind include camera shops, photography groups, cool places to shoot, and anything else related to Chicago and photography. If there is a link you'd like to see up there, send an email to chicagophotoblogs@gmail.com
- The photoblog is in the works. I've already received submissions and will put those up as soon as I get the photoblog up and running.
- Speaking of submissions, if you're interested in being a contributor to the blog send an e-mail asking to be one! I've already sent invitations to people who want to contribute, so don't be shy!
- Remember to email Nick [ nfeder@gmail.com ] to tell him if you're interested in attending a Chicago photobloggers get together, which looks to happen sometime around the middle of January of the new year.
Happy Photoblogging,
Rod
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December 14, 2004
We're LIVE!
It's been a long time coming, but we're finally LIVE! HUGE THANKS to Rod for doing ALL the design work - outstanding!
I'll be posting a note up on Photoblogs.org to OFFICIALLY announce Chicago Photobloggers!
Let me know if you'd like to be a contributing author -- I'll send along log-in information to you!
Welcome everyone! Pass along any Chicago related links -- and let's post up some great Chicago photos for the world to see!
bob
posted in Updates by Bob Smith - link - comments (7) - trackbacks (0)
November 27, 2004
I'm Late I'm Late I'm Late!
Okay -- I'm like the rabbit in Alice in Wonderland - I know -- I'm late! I swear, I am NOT a procrastinator! I've just been swamped with life's little wonderments.
So -- I've sent out invitations to a handful of people who expressed interest in getting this thing started. Rod submitted the following logo suggestion for our site -- I like it -- what do you think? We're open to any, and all, ideas! Most importantly, I'd like to get this thing rolling!
Here's the logo:
Lemme know your thoughts. My email address is me@notraces.com.
I promise -- I won't go back down the rabbit hole! Hope everyone is having a wonderful Holiday Weekend!
posted in Updates by Bob Smith - link - comments (2) - trackbacks (0)
October 19, 2004
Chicagoland Photobloggers will be online soon!
Hi everyone! I'm very happy to announce the creation of the Chicagoland Photobloggers site. I'll be working with a number of people to bring the site up -- it's a work in progress, so bear with us.
For now, I'd like to invite anyone living in, and around, Chicago to join by sending me an email. All you have to do is click on the 'email me' link - and you'll know what to do from there.
I see this site as a collaborative effort between all Chicagoland Photobloggers. This is OUR site to share ideas and information. We're also part of the Photoblogs.org community -- a great place to be.
So -- I welcome everyone, and I look forward to creating a wonderful Chicago based site for the world to see!
