Politics, the environment, technology, activism. And stuff.
Posted in General on Apr 26th, 2009
How the OAuth Security Battle Was Won, Open Web Style – ReadWriteWeb Interesting story about how an open-standards community rolled out a high profile security fix. Of course, this is something open-source communities do all the time. But interesting nonetheless. (tags: collaboration security community web)
Posted in General on Apr 23rd, 2009
'Causes' Social Networking May Be All Talk, No Cash for Nonprofits Seeking Funds – washingtonpost.com After two years, fundraising on Facebook through "Causes" is almost completely ineffective. (tags: social-networking facebook fundraising nonprofits)
Posted in General on Apr 22nd, 2009
I’m leaving tomorrow evening for a trip to the Bay Area, where I’ll attending NTC, the nonprofit technology conference, with over 1400 other nonprofit technologists. As someone who remembers the 40-person 1997 NTC (or “Circuit Rider Roundup” as it was called back then) which gathered nearly all of the people doing this work at the [...]
Posted in General on Apr 14th, 2009
You may just have to pay for a free press Joel Connelly sends a shout-out to ONE/Northwest client High Country News: "Out in Paonia, Colo., however, a bold nonprofit newspaper named High Country News has spent years hitting up readers for its Research Fund — and using the bucks to do in-depth reporting." (tags: journalism [...]
Posted in General on Apr 11th, 2009
Miradi adaptive management software for conservation projects (tags: software environment)
Posted in General on Apr 9th, 2009
Profiles in Bad Online Organizing: Part 1 (DSCC) awesome deconstruction and reconstruction of an action alert email (tags: email online-organizing activism)
Posted in General on Apr 7th, 2009
Obama's Grass-Roots 'Organizing for America' Isn't a Factor in Budget Battle Campaign organizing != issue organizing. So easy to forget that. (tags: politics organizing)
Posted in General on Apr 6th, 2009
How Obama Is Using the Science of Change – TIME amazing article about applied behavioral science (tags: politics marketing psychology science)
Posted in General on Apr 2nd, 2009
How Much Email is Too Much? great piece from Amnesty International on how to make action emails much more strategic and effective with better writing and more disciplined scheduling (tags: email advocacy research)
