links for 2008-11-30
Posted in General on Nov 30th, 2008
A Pyramid of Online Communication Methods great article, good discussion [...]
Monthly Archive for November, 2008
Outsourcing commenting on a Plone site
Posted in General on Nov 28th, 2008
I’m eyeballing IntenseDebate.com, recently acquired by Wordpress, who offer a hosted third-party blog/website commenting service, and am starting to wonder whether it might be a good idea to write a Plone add-on product that integrated IntenseDebate as a commenting system for Plone.It seems like there would be some pros and cons. What do you think? [...]
“Chaotic, cacophonous, well meaning efforts that will inevitably add up to nothing”
Posted in General on Nov 27th, 2008
Allison Fine throws some common sense on the fire in assessing post-election “crowdsourcing change” efforts. I’m going to shamelessly quote it at length because the message is worth amplifying and repeating. Oh, the sacrilege of criticizing well meaning crowd sourcing!! Shouldn’t citizens be allowed, nay encouraged!, to throw do-goody ideas against the wall so that we can then [...]
links for 2008-11-27
Posted in General on Nov 27th, 2008
Where to Buy Used Canon Lenses (tags: photography) [...]
links for 2008-11-24
Posted in General on Nov 24th, 2008
The Faces of Mechanical Turk – Waxy.org (tags: [...]
links for 2008-11-23
Posted in General on Nov 23rd, 2008
Now, Brevity Is the Soul of Office Interaction – NYTimes.com Great introduction to the value of internal microblogging with tools like Yammer & Present.ly [...]
links for 2008-11-21
Posted in General on Nov 21st, 2008
TabStrip Plugin – Explorer interesting effect (tags: jquery webdesign) [...]
Woah. Google SearchWiki
Posted in General on Nov 20th, 2008
Google says:Today we’re launching SearchWiki, a way for you to customize search by re-ranking, deleting, adding, and commenting on search results. With just a single click you can move the results you like to the top or add a new site. You can also write notes attached to a particular site and remove results that you don’t feel belong. [...]
links for 2008-11-19
Posted in General on Nov 19th, 2008
Amazon CloudFront Amazon turns their S3 storage service into a full-scale Content Delivery Network. This will be really handy for sites that have [...]
Musings on ecommerce and PCI compliance for nonprofits
Posted in General on Nov 18th, 2008
I’ve been doing some thinking and planning about how to build some better online donation tools for small to midsize nonprofits. In the process of doing some of that background research, I’ve come across what I think is a pretty big latent risk to lots of nonprofits (and small businesses) that are doing online transactions. It [...]
links for 2008-11-18
Posted in General on Nov 18th, 2008
Crosscut.com exploring nonprofit model Crosscut.com, Seattle's independent journalism startup, is exploring shifting from a .com to a .org. interesting [...]
links for 2008-11-14
Posted in General on Nov 14th, 2008
Web site collects ideas for Obama's CTO – NYTimes.com nice going, Mike, Matt, Jesse, et al! [...]
I am the only one who finds Change.gov disappointing
Posted in General on Nov 12th, 2008
I’m really surprised by the adulation that the Obama transition team’s website, Change.gov, has gotten. To me, it looks like a pretty design (all of Obama’s design work has been really excellent!), and a few web forms that dump your information into a black hole, never to be seen again (so far). This is what [...]
Great glimpse behind the scenes of the campaigns
Posted in General on Nov 8th, 2008
Newsweek offers convincing evidence that “mainstream media” is still possible and relevant with a fantastic, in-depth look behind the scenes of an epic election campaign. Their web presentation is a bit choppy, but here are quick links to the seven in-depth chapters. Well worth a read. Ch. 1: Barack Obama: How He [...]
World Plone Day Seattle – A Huge Success
Posted in General on Nov 8th, 2008
The team here at ONE/Northwest hosted Seattle’s World Plone Day event last night, part of a coordinated worldwide Plone “day of outreach” that reached over 22 countries.Here in Seattle, we had a capacity crowd of about 40 folks, with a great mix of experienced Plone hands, Plone beginners and the “just curious.” I gave a [...]
links for 2008-11-07
Posted in General on Nov 7th, 2008
Online Communities Design Patterns nice overview of the possible feature elements of online community tools [...]
Happy World Plone Day!
Posted in General on Nov 7th, 2008
Today is World Plone Day, a global “day of outreach” for the Plone open-source CMS community. In a few hours, we’ll be hosting 40+ folks here at ONE/Northwest HQ in Seattle, just one of the dozens of World Plone Day events taking place in over 22 countries around the world. It’s been a pretty amazing global [...]