Politics, the environment, technology, activism. And stuff.
Posted in General on May 28th, 2009
Google Wave interesting new collaboration service coming from Google later this year (tags: google collaboration social-networking) Beyond MoveOn: Using the Internet for Real Change "Hopefully down the road a network of non-partisan, web-based local and state activists will come together and create state and national email lists of millions of mobilized activists. Until these grassroots [...]
Posted in General on May 27th, 2009
Politics and the Environment great academic summary of the various facets of the environmental movement (tags: environment politics research) Eventbrite Connector integration between Eventbrite & Salesforce. $5/user/month for NGOs (tags: engagement_platform events salesforce)
Posted in General on May 25th, 2009
The Cost Conundrum: What a Texas town can teach us about health care Interesting examination of why health care expenses are high in some places and not others. (tags: healthcare)
Posted in General on May 23rd, 2009
cufon A simpler? alternative to sIFR for web font replacement (tags: sifr typography webdesign) Jeffrey Zeldman Presents : Web fonts now (how we’re doing with that) Nice overview of the current state of the art; hope is on the horizon (tags: webdesign typography design)
Posted in General on May 22nd, 2009
Using Amazon EC2 for PCI DSS compliant applications | Cloudiquity Suggests that Amazon EC2 can be PCI compliant(!) (tags: pci amazon)
Posted in General on May 22nd, 2009
Geir Bækholt of Jarn just delivered a keynote talk at the European Plone Symposium 2009 in which he outlined the roadmap for the next two major releases of Plone. You can skim through the slides here, but it’s worthwhile to click through to the full version so you can click on the “Notes” tab and [...]
Posted in General on May 21st, 2009
A Simple Model for Community Engagement | WiserEarth Blog (tags: engagement_platform engagement organizing) KARL (tags: collaboration engagement_platform zope bfg)
Posted in General on May 20th, 2009
Clixpy.com – a Must-Have Usability Tool for Webmasters records user actions on webpages (tags: usability analytics webdesign) The brave new world of slacktivism Perhaps, it's high time to challenge this narrative and ask a very difficult question: are the publicity gains gained through this greater reliance on new media worth the organizational losses that traditional [...]
Posted in General on May 19th, 2009
Obama to Announce New Mileage and Emissions Standards "the single biggest step the American government has ever taken to cut greenhouse gas emissions." (tags: environment)
Posted in General on May 16th, 2009
Vancouver enters the age of the open city | eaves.ca (tags: open-source government engagement_platform)
Posted in General on May 13th, 2009
Seth's Blog: What kind of open are you looking for? various definitions of open (tags: opensource engagement-platform)
Posted in General on May 10th, 2009
More awesome, frightening and depressing ranting from David Simon on how the internet is not going to save journalism. At least not soon. What he said to Congress. More in-depth version. Internet new media types try to claim he’s wrong, but not very convincingly. Bottom line: amateur, unpaid journalists are no substitute for well-resourced, professional [...]
Posted in General on May 8th, 2009
Webinar: Creating Powerful Presentations with Nancy Duarte by the folks who did Al Gore's "inconvenient truth" powerpoint (tags: powerpoint presentations webinar storytelling)
Posted in General on May 5th, 2009
Google Puts the Brakes on 10^100 contest looks like "ideas" contests don't scale all that well, even for google (tags: ideas contests google nptech)
Posted in General on May 4th, 2009
The Twitalyzer for Tracking Influence and Measuring Success in Twitter interesting twitter metrics (tags: twitter analytics analysis)
Posted in General on May 1st, 2009
I just did a little experiment today (prompted by a clever idea from Erik Rose) to see if I could achieve Plone blogging nirvana by mashing together QuillsEnabled and Scrawl. Not only did it work, it made me cackle with such evil genius glee that I needed to write it up. OK, so you’re probably [...]
Posted in General on May 1st, 2009
Google Apps Directory Sync – Google Apps Help (tags: google email system_administration)
Posted in General on May 1st, 2009
Katie Cunningham, a technical lead at NASA, has written up a great three-part case study on her experiences managing a massive (and massively successful) project to relaunch the NASA Science website with Plone. Part I: Why Plone? Part II: Design and Development Part III: Lessons Learned Lots of great lessons in there about what it [...]
