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Monthly Archive for July, 2009

links for 2009-07-29

How to Stop Delivery of Phone Books | Eco Yellow Pages [...]

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links for 2009-07-26

IPDI » Blog Archive » In the Trenches with State Legislators and Techies [...]

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links for 2009-07-25

Automating watchdog reporting Some interesting ideas amid the acronym soup [...]

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links for 2009-07-21

Light rail at last: What took us forever? David Brewster offers 13 reasons why Seattle takes forever to make political decisions. Unusually cogent [...]

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Apple: (still) hostile to nonprofits

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 a [...]

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links for 2009-07-20

The Role of Email in Your Communications Mix great article by Heather Gardner-Madras [...]

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Nice engagement tactic

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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links for 2009-07-14

Twenty questions about the GPL Intelligent questions and (mostly) intelligent answers [...]

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links for 2009-07-13

MemeTracker: tracking news phrases over the web Fascinating study of the spread of news phrases between blogs and mainstream media [...]

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We report, you decide

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

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links for 2009-07-10

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 [...]

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links for 2009-07-09

CoTweet "CRM" for twitter, sorta. basically, lets multiple people manage multiple twitter accounts, useful in organizational settings. [...]

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links for 2009-07-06

Jaded About Social Media For Change? – Let's Talk About It! damn right I'm a little jaded right now. [...]

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links for 2009-07-05

Insider Voices: Human dimensions of low carbon technology recommended by alex steffen [...]

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links for 2009-07-04

In New York’s Public Housing, Spreading the Gospel of the Recycling Bin Recycling: not just for rich white people anymore! [...]

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Sabbatical!

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 reconnect. I [...]

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links for 2009-07-02

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

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Wordpress Themes are GPL

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 a [...]

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links for 2009-07-01

"The Not-So-Hidden Politics of Class Online" talk by Danah Boyd [...]

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