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A Catalog of Recent (ish) Communications:
- April 2022:Picture This: Creative New England
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- Soft Launch Reminder
- How to Add Media to Your Profile
- Fresh Spotlight Six: Stellar CreativeGround Profiles you should see!
- April Events & Office Hours
- Resources & Opportunities
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- March 2022: 3..2..1... (Soft) ReLaunch!
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- Welcome to the upgraded CreativeGround platform!
- What is a Soft Launch?
- Getting (re)Started
- What's New
- March Events & Office Hours
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- February 2022: Just Checking In: Happy New Year
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- Happy New Year - CreativeGround 2.0 will be launched soon in 2022!
- The team is still here, working diligently - reach out for support
- Things to know about the Soft Launch of CreativeGround 2.0
- The Power, Peril, and Promise of the Creative Economy: The House's Small Business Committee had its first ever hearing on the creative economy
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- November 2021: Change is Coming to CreativeGround
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- CreativeGround 2.0 will have a Soft Launch period
- Keep your profile up to date for a smoother transition to the new site
- CreativeGround is on Instagram: @creativeground.nefa
- Timely opportunities and resources
- CreativeGround 2.0 will have a Soft Launch period
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- June 2021: Summer is Calling (and Last Calls)
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- Welcome Natalya! She joins the CreativeGround team as Program Administrator, Creative Economy at NEFA.
- Final Call to sign up to be a Beta Tester
- Final Call before the new site is launched to submit interest in being Featured on CreativeGround
- Make your profile robust as possible for higher visibility in Search results
- New Work New England neighbors on CreativeGround
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- May 2021: Spring Newsletter
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- Preview some visuals from upgraded CreativeGround website to be launched in 2021
- Opportunities to deepen your involvement in the CreativeGround community
- CreativeGround profile highlights
- Tech Tip: Update your profile to better show up in search results
- Creative Economy 101: "Real Time" vs "Longitudinal" Measures of Creative Economy
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- April 2021: April Showers and Self Care Flowers
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- Self Care Resources
- Tech Tip: Share your self care practices
- New Featured Profiles
- Deepen your involvement with CreativeGround as we launch our upgraded site in 2021
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- March 2021: Winter 2021 Newsletter
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- Happy 7 years to CreativeGround
- Getting grounded by connecting with your creative community
- Creative Economy 101: Creative Core and Creative Related Entities
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- December 2020: Using CreativeGround in the Gift-Giving Season
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- Make your profile giving season ready
- Promoting the directory for shopping, tickets, and donations
- Deepen your involvement with CreativeGround as we launch our upgraded site in 2021
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- October/November 2020: Autumn 2020 Newsletter
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- Dig Deeper: Calls to Action for more involvement in CreativeGround as the site is upgraded
- Tech Tip: Deciding to have more than one profile on CreativeGround (or not!)
- Creative Economy 101: Legal Status
- New Featured Profiles!
- Shopping the Arts this Holiday Season by linking up with Artists Sunday
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- September 2020: Community: It's About People
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- New Opportunity: Community Cultivators
- Welcome new CreativeGround Team Member, Jess Muise!
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- August 2020: Summer 2020 Newsletter
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- Site upgrade updates
- On the CreativeGround with: New England creatives share how they are experiencing the shifting ground of the pandemic and anti-racist social justice movement
- Let's Talk About You: Writing Your Description of Work and Background
- Creative Economy 101: Permaculture
- Your Data Matters: 2020 Census
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- July 2020: Raising Creative New England Voices: Diving Beneath the Surface eblast
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- New featured profiles
- Site upgrade updates
- Is the "Creative Activism" activity/service right for your profile?
- Think pieces on the future of the sector
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- June 2020: Spring 2020 Newsletter
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- Sharing resources for and reflections from the sector in light of COVID-19
- Celebrating Asian/Pacific Islander Heritage Month
- Keeping connected: Maintaining your I Have Worked With connections
- Creative Economy 101: Selecting the Institution/Business type for your profile
- Resources and Opportunities: Regional and National
- Anti-Racism Resources
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- March 2020: A Date with Data: Creative Community in the Age of COVID-19 eblast
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- The importance of the accuracy of your data
- Why you might consider sharing your artist data with the 2020 Census
- Soliciting interest from potential local data partners for CreativeGround
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- February 2020: Anniversary Winter Newsletter
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- Announcing funding to upgrade CreativeGround
- Celebrate six years of CreativeGround with fun data snacks
- Creative Economy 101: Sources for Creative Economy Data
- New Featured Profiles
- We're hiring
- Adding alt text to the images on your CreativeGround profile
- Resources and Opportunities: Regional and National
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