Jon Stahl's Journal

How to Stop Delivery of Phone Books | Eco Yellow Pages (tags: junkmail)

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IPDI » Blog Archive » In the Trenches with State Legislators and Techies (tags: crm legislature politics)

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Automating watchdog reporting Some interesting ideas amid the acronym soup (tags: government analysis open-data)

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Light rail at last: What took us forever? David Brewster offers 13 reasons why Seattle takes forever to make political decisions. Unusually cogent analysis. (tags: seattle politics)

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Lots of nonprofit technologists are unapologetic Apple fanboys (and girls).  I’ve owned and used Apple products over the years, and while some have been fine, they rarely make me swoon.  I think of Apple as just another mega-corporation that sometimes makes nice computer hardware, not some extension of my personal brand identity. Apple is hardly [...]

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The Role of Email in Your Communications Mix great article by Heather Gardner-Madras (tags: email strategy)

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Here’s a nice little online engagement tactic from our friends at Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families: when you build a “thank you” page for online donations or online activism, include Facebook Connect widget that invites people to become a Fan of your org. Nicely done!

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Twenty questions about the GPL Intelligent questions and (mostly) intelligent answers (tags: plone gpl open-source legal)

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MemeTracker: tracking news phrases over the web Fascinating study of the spread of news phrases between blogs and mainstream media (tags: news politics analytics research visualization language)

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Brilliant manifesto, or reheated marketing pap?  (David Eaves says the former, I’m less sure.) What’s your take?

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Health Care Reform: Where Is Obama's Army? Obama seems to be failing or declining to mobilize his 13-million strong email list in support of health care reform. Why? (tags: politics healthcare obama online-organizing) :: InvestigateWest Former P-I staffers including environmental reporter Robert McClure: "InvestigateWest is a nonprofit news organization that conducts major investigative and narrative [...]

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CoTweet "CRM" for twitter, sorta. basically, lets multiple people manage multiple twitter accounts, useful in organizational settings. (tags: twitter CRM collaboration)

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Jaded About Social Media For Change? – Let's Talk About It! damn right I'm a little jaded right now. (tags: nonprofit social-media organizing) GreenPrint Software Interesting print driver that helps you avoid printing unneeded pages. (tags: environment software printers)

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Insider Voices: Human dimensions of low carbon technology recommended by alex steffen (tags: to_read sabbatical climate business research)

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In New York’s Public Housing, Spreading the Gospel of the Recycling Bin Recycling: not just for rich white people anymore! (tags: environment organizing)

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I’m pleased to announce that I’ll be taking a sabbatical from ONE/Northwest, beginning around July 20th and lasting through early November! After 13 years at ONE/Northwest, I’m feeling a little fatigued. Worse,  I feel like I’ve become disconnected from the wellspring of inspiration that makes social change work possible.  I need to simultaneously unplug and [...]

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The little tugboat that could (tags: peopleforpugetsound-blz2f)

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WordPress released an opinion from the Software Freedom Law Center today confirming that WordPress themes must be GPL, although the images and CSS in a theme don’t have to be. This is substantially similar to how Plone and Drupal have always thought that GPL applies to themes and add-on products, and it’s nice to see [...]

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"The Not-So-Hidden Politics of Class Online" talk by Danah Boyd (tags: politics technology culture social-media) scottberkun.com » Calling bullshit on social media Great piece that places social media hype in context (tags: social-media strategy engagement)

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