{"id":2446,"date":"2015-03-01T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-01T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bisexualblogs.wordpress.com\/?p=90"},"modified":"2015-03-01T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-01T18:00:00","slug":"your-bi-group-brand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/2015\/03\/your-bi-group-brand\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Bi Group Brand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once you&#8217;ve set up a bi group and thought of a name, the next thing to look at is the branding for your group. This is important as it helps people recognise you across lots of different websites and social media sites. It lets people know who you are and that you&#8217;re something to do with bisexuality. Finally it also helps you look more professional &amp;\u00a0established. Using your own stuff means you will avoid any copyright issues too.<\/p>\n<p>I taught myself how to use some free photo editing software called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gimp.org\/\" >GIMP<\/a>, but if this isn&#8217;t something you feel comfortable doing why not ask around and see if someone will draw or make you\u00a0something for free?<\/p>\n<p>If you can&#8217;t find\u00a0anyone to do this and have some money to spare, you could try commissioning someone on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fivesquid.com\/\">www.fivesquid.com<\/a>\u00a0to create a logo for you for a fiver. Just search for graphic designers on there and look for someone who&#8217;s style and design you like.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Logo and Brand Ideas<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Bi Flag<\/li>\n<li>Something using one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/bisexuality-101-what-are-bisexual-symbols\" >symbols of bisexuality<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Something using purple, or purple, blue and pink.<\/li>\n<li>Something representing what your group does, e.g. a tea cup if you meet for a cuppa once a month.<\/li>\n<li>Something related to your local area, e.g. arrows for Nottingham<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Need some more ideas? Here&#8217;s a\u00a0quick look at what some other groups have done:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brightonbothways.org.uk\/\" >Brighton Bothways<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/biwoc.tumblr.com\/\" >Bisexual Women of Color<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bivisiblebristol.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/09\/good-bi-summer.jpg\" >A\u00a0poster from Bi Visible Bristol<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bicymru.org.uk\/bifest-wales\/\" >BiFest Wales<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/bisexualblogs.wordpress.com\/90\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/bisexualblogs.wordpress.com\/90\/\" \/><\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/pixel.wp.com\/b.gif?host=bisexualblogs.wordpress.com&#038;blog=83147982&#038;%23038;post=90&#038;%23038;subd=bisexualblogs&#038;%23038;ref=&#038;%23038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once you&rsquo;ve set up a bi group and thought of a name, the next thing to look at is the branding for your group. This is important as it helps people recognise you across lots of different websites and social media sites. It lets people know who you are and that you&rsquo;re something to do &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bisexualblogs.wordpress.com\/2015\/03\/01\/your-bi-group-brand\/\">Continue reading <span>Your Bi Group&nbsp;Brand<\/span> <span>&rarr;<\/span><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/pixel.wp.com\/b.gif?host=bisexualblogs.wordpress.com&amp;blog=83147982&amp;post=90&amp;subd=bisexualblogs&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":1211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[390],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-running-a-bi-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}