Abuse can happen to any woman
Jill and I have led groups in diverse neighbourhoods and with women from diverse social and cultural backgrounds for many…
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Exploring sociability within residential buildings
The City of Vancouver’s original Hey Neighbour! pilot was designed as an experiment to learn about the potential of resident-led…
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From friendly buildings to an emergent pilot project, a history of HNC
The Hey Neighbour Collective emerged from collaboration between staff involved in the City of Vancouver’s 2018-2019 Hey Neighbour! pilot project…
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Linking “into” your website
Your posts, pages, and custom content are all on the same website, but how connected are they really? Deep linking…
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In general, hyperlinks should open in the same window
Making hyperlinks is a foundational skill in web publishing. Links have everything to do with usability, accessibility, search engine optimization,…
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Effective use of headings in web publishing
Headings are like a table of contents in your pages and posts. They provide both visual and behind the scenes…
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How to avoid cruft in posts and pages
Not everyone drafts their content directly in their web publishing content manager. Authors sometimes draft their content in Word documents,…
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Manual excerpts are helpful
Manual excerpts are a kind of metadata about your articles. They work mostly as short summaries of your posts. And…
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Always write good alternative text
Images on a website can be really important content. They give context, shape meaning, and move readers. It is really…
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Improve your security habits on National Pass**** Day, March 15
Having good passcode habits is an important aspect of online security. And it’s something we all need to work at….
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Web first publishing
Web first publishing means publishing your carefully crafted content to your website first. We recommend it nine times out of…
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Publishing articles with feature images
Not every dispatch has to have it’s own feature image. But, on the other hand, it’s really nice.1 I encourage…
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Managing webpages that get updated regularly (like Career pages)
Some webpages change very little. Others, like Career pages, change more regularly. How best to manage this content? Well, there…
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The value of short and simple blog posts
I value the practice of publishing short and very short dispatches. It’s a kind of microblogging. Early bloggers never differentiated…
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Community hub site (still in beta)
A little while ago we launched a new website which we call the community hub. It’s an experiment in aggregating…
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Stopping the coastal commercial trophy hunt in the Nadeea tenure with Raincoast
Happy July folks! This month I’m going a little out of my comfort zone — into the world of fundraising…
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“Mental Illness” or Abuse – Helping a Woman Discern the Difference
Sometimes women will say they believe their partner behaves the way he does because he has mental health concerns. Men…
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Survivors need to be given a choice not an ultimatum
Sometimes friends and family give women, who have experienced abuse, ultimatums. For example, “If you move back in with him,…
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Presentation at Royal Roads University Leadership Conference
I had a fantastic time today at the Royal Roads University Leadership Conference. I was honoured to be a presenter…
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Stockholm Syndrome in the context of abuse?
Stockholm Syndrome was coined 40 years ago at the end of a six-day bank siege in Stockholm, Sweden. Sometimes women…
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What should we be able to expect in our relationships?
Sometimes women impacted by abuse wonder if their expectations are too high. In our experience this is not true. Rather,…
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His goal in couples counselling was to gain more control over me
We had been married 15 years. Things had been very hard for a long time. I knew there was something…
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Some thoughts on security on the interwebs
Now and then we get asked for security advice. It’s tough these days. The question I always have is, secure from…
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Interview with Danielle Smith, 770 Radio Calgary
Recently Jill sat down with Danielle Smith at Newstalk 770 Radio Calgary. You can hear the interview here! https://cldup.com/66BqmfoMM2.mp3 https://omny.fm/shows/danielle-smith/clips…
