Politics, the environment, technology, activism. And stuff.
Posted in General on Jul 25th, 2008
Dear Plone community, Here’s a little trial balloon I’d like to float. Potshots welcome. I’ve been thinking for a while that we need more structured, scalable ways to listen to our worldwide user community. In particular, I think we need better ways to listen to them for feature ideas, and better ways to understand which [...]
Posted in General on Jul 24th, 2008
We’ve just released Slideshow Folder 4.0, a major upgrade to a product we’ve built to make it easy for folks using Plone to create beautiful animated slideshows in their sites. It’s a “Release Candidate 2″, which means we’ve tested it quite a bit, believe it’s ready for production use, and don’t think it has any [...]
Posted in General on Jul 24th, 2008
We launched our biggest Plone-powered website ever last night: High Country News. We’re still recovering from the final push, but we’ll offer a detailed technical writeup soon. In the meantime, check out how elegant and powerful a Plone-powered newspaper website can be. Send design-related love notes to HCN’s technical director Ryan Foster.
Posted in General on Jul 19th, 2008
UPDATE: OK, turns out the culprit was my dying Linksys BEFW11S4 router, which started choking as soon as I enabled WPA. iPeng is now chugging along like a champ, and I’m in iPod-Squeezebox remote control heaven. Thanks, Coolio! Molly got an iPod Touch last week, and so the first thing I tried to make it [...]
Posted in General on Jul 16th, 2008
While several ONE/Northwest staffers (like me!) are fairly dedicated bloggers, we’ve never had an organizational blog. Thanks to our summer social media intern Daniel Bachhuber, now we do.ONE/Blog will mostly address environmental organizing and citizen engagement, with a bit of tools-and-tactics geekery thrown in, and lots of interesting links.If you’re interested in the cutting edge [...]
Posted in General on Jul 15th, 2008
Just a quick reminder that Plone Conference 2008 session proposals are due July 21st — six short days from now. If you’ve got a Plone-related skill to teach, a cool project to do a case study about, wisdom about project and business management, or a conversation you’d like to facilitate in the community, take 15 [...]
Posted in General on Jul 12th, 2008
One of the best parts of working at ONE/Northwest is getting to sit next to Karen Uffelman. But even luckier than me is Scott Stevens, to whom she’s getting married on this beautiful, golden Seattle summer afternoon. Congratulations!
Posted in General on Jul 1st, 2008
Can you guess which ONE/Northwest staffer said, “If someone says ‘leverage resources for improved engagement collaboration’ I guarantee that nobody will be paying attention by the end of the sentence.” Hint: it wasn’t me, if you can believe that.
