Jon Stahl's Journal » General http://jstahl.org Politics, the environment, technology, activism. And stuff. Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:30:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Stuff I’m reading (weekly) http://jstahl.org/archives/2012/02/04/stuff-im-reading-weekly-12/ http://jstahl.org/archives/2012/02/04/stuff-im-reading-weekly-12/#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:30:34 +0000 Jon Stahl http://jstahl.org/?p=2681 Continue reading →]]>

  • Paul Beaudet | The Center for Effective Philanthropy

    Three nice articles from Paul on effective grantmaking practices

    tags: philanthropy

  • ConsiderIt :: framing deliberation on the web

    tags: deliberation collaboration software UW

  • Pricing Strategy for Creatives

    tags: consulting business

  • NodeXL Graph Gallery: About NodeXL

    “NodeXL is a free, open-source template for Microsoft® Excel® 2007 and 2010 that lets you enter a network edge list into a workbook, click a button, and see the network graph, all in the familiar environment of the Excel® window. “

    tags: social-media research software excel

  • Gates Foundation’s Tweets reveal passive, insular global health community

    Interesting social network analysis

    tags: networks analysis research

  • Reactivating inactive supporters

    Nice methodology for segmenting, reactivating and gently purging inactive supporters

    tags: organizing activism online-activism

  • Mesmerized by Metrics: Is Philanthropy Engaging in Magical Thinking?

    Interesting food for thought.

    tags: philanthropy metrics performance

    • Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

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  • 17 things I have learnt about charity email copy

    tags: email nonprofit writing

    • Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

    ]]>     http://jstahl.org/archives/2012/01/28/stuff-im-reading-weekly-11/feed/ 0     Finally! A Washington State nonprofit association http://jstahl.org/archives/2012/01/25/finally-a-washington-state-nonprofit-association/ http://jstahl.org/archives/2012/01/25/finally-a-washington-state-nonprofit-association/#comments Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:33:27 +0000 Jon Stahl http://jstahl.org/?p=2677 It’s nice to see that Washington Nonprofits, a statewide association of Washington nonprofit organizations, is finally getting off the ground.  Washington has long been one of the few states that doesn’t have such an organization.

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  • Metrics That Matter for Social Movement

    tags: measurement nonprofits organizing research evaluation

  • Few Charity Employees Feel Financially Prepared for Retirement, Survey Finds – Conference Notebook – The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas

    tags: nonprofits research

  • Seven Predictions for Philanthropy in 2012

    tags: philanthropy predictions nonprofits

  • Advances in social capital measurement | Social Capital Blog

    tags: evaluation research social-capital networks

  • Traceful

    email monitoring

    tags: email-bucket email advocacy research

  • Plover, the Open Source Steno Program

    Replaces $1000 proprietary keyboards and $4000 proprietary software. Awesome.

    tags: open-source

    • Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

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  • A City Is A Startup: The Rise Of The Mayor-Entrepreneur | TechCrunch

    tags: technology government

  • Can Mike Young save the UW?

    Good overview on new UW President’s strategic situation

    tags: UW leadership

    • Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

    ]]>     http://jstahl.org/archives/2012/01/14/stuff-im-reading-weekly-9/feed/ 0     Multicast filtering on UW wireless networks? http://jstahl.org/archives/2012/01/11/multicast-filtering-on-uw-wireless-networks/ http://jstahl.org/archives/2012/01/11/multicast-filtering-on-uw-wireless-networks/#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 21:16:13 +0000 Jon Stahl http://jstahl.org/?p=2667 Continue reading →]]> Sitting with an idle laptop on a UW wireless network here at the Evans School, I typically see a constant 40-50kb/sec of traffic flowing into my machine.  At first I thought it was somebody attempting to hack or DDOS my laptop, but digging into the network packets with LittleSnitch showed me that all of this traffic was due to mDNS (Bonjour) broadcast traffic from other Apple machines on the network.

    This seems like a huge waste of bandwidth and battery life to allow these network broadcasts.  Apparently other university IT administrators agree; Princeton University filters mDNS traffic from its wireless networks.  It would be nice to see UWIT do the same.

    ]]>     http://jstahl.org/archives/2012/01/11/multicast-filtering-on-uw-wireless-networks/feed/ 0     WSDOT traffic data: missing in action http://jstahl.org/archives/2012/01/10/wsdot-traffic-data-missing-in-action/ http://jstahl.org/archives/2012/01/10/wsdot-traffic-data-missing-in-action/#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 04:58:32 +0000 Jon Stahl http://jstahl.org/?p=2661 Continue reading →]]> With the recent start of tolling on SR-520 here in Seattle, the public’s attention is suddenly on traffic volumes on 520 and I-90.  So, this morning, I went over to the WSDOT website to see if I could find a simple listing of traffic volumes for the past few weeks.  Nothing, just a few random numbers sprinkled in their press releases.

    Obviously, WSDOT is collecting this data.  It’s ridiculous that it’s not being published in formats that would make it easy to read and analyze.  What a huge open government data fail.

    ]]>     http://jstahl.org/archives/2012/01/10/wsdot-traffic-data-missing-in-action/feed/ 3     Stuff I’m reading (weekly) http://jstahl.org/archives/2012/01/07/stuff-im-reading-weekly-8/ http://jstahl.org/archives/2012/01/07/stuff-im-reading-weekly-8/#comments Sun, 08 Jan 2012 00:33:40 +0000 Jon Stahl http://jstahl.org/?p=2658 Publications & Resources > Featured tags: evaluation advocacy research A Guide to Measuring Advocacy and Policy / Advocacy and Policy Change / Issue Archive / The Evaluation Exchange / Evaluation / HFRP – Harvard Family Research … Continue reading →]]>

  • Organizational Research Services > Publications & Resources > Featured

    tags: evaluation advocacy research

  • A Guide to Measuring Advocacy and Policy / Advocacy and Policy Change / Issue Archive / The Evaluation Exchange / Evaluation / HFRP – Harvard Family Research Project

    tags: advocacy evaluation research

  • TRASI -Tools and Resources for Assessing Social Impact

    tags: evaluation advocacy research

  • Innovation Network: Services > Research

    tags: advocacy evaluation

  • The California Endowment – Advocacy Evaluation Advances: A National Convening on Advocacy and Policy Change Evaluation

    tags: advocacy evaluation

  • N.Y.P.D. Leaves Offenses Unrecorded to Keep Crime Rates Down – NYTimes.com

    tags: compstat statistics evans

  • 2011 Gov 2.0 year in review – O’Reilly Radar

    A lengthy recap of “Gov 2.0″ in 2011

    tags: gov20

  • Demystifying Networks

    Network theory applied to the humanities

    tags: networks

  • jQuery Timeline

    Nice interactive timeline with CSS/jQuery

    tags: jquery timeline webdesign

    • Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

    ]]>     http://jstahl.org/archives/2012/01/07/stuff-im-reading-weekly-8/feed/ 0     Managing money for social change agents http://jstahl.org/archives/2012/01/03/managing-money-for-social-change-agents/ http://jstahl.org/archives/2012/01/03/managing-money-for-social-change-agents/#comments Wed, 04 Jan 2012 06:37:50 +0000 Jon Stahl http://jstahl.org/?p=2652 Continue reading →]]> I’m hardly a financial wiz, nor am I fabulously wealthy.  But I’ve managed to do a reasonably decent job of saving and managing money over 15 years as an underpaid social change activist.  Here’s some big-picture advice:

    1) Live beneath your means, even if you’re not making a lot of money.  If expenses > income, you are screwed.

    2) Have a credit card. Use it. Pay it off every month. Never, never, never run a balance. This helps you build a credit history, which will matter when you want to buy a home.

    3) Start saving. Compound interest is your friend. But if you’re not-so-young, start saving anyway.  15% of your income is a good, aggressive target.

    4) First savings priority: an emergency fund with 6-9 months’ living expenses. Keep it in cash or a money-market fund. This is your “oh no, I just lost my job” fund, or the “gosh, that was an unexpected car repair bill” fund.

    5) Next priority: retirement. Take advantage of any 401k or 403b matching that your employer offers–that’s free money. Saving is easier when it comes directly out of your paycheck and you never get the chance to spend it.  Invest in low-cost index funds or ETFs. David Swensen’s “Unconventional Success” is a fantastic guide to asset allocation that will help you avoid the traps of the mutual fund industry.

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  • impress.js | presentation tool based on the power of CSS3 transforms and transitions in modern browsers | by Bartek Szopka @bartaz

    tags: presentation css html

  • The Coming War on General Computation – Cory Doctorow

    Transcript of speech.

    tags: speech politics computers

  • What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland’s School Success – Anu Partanen – National – The Atlantic

    Equity, not excellence.

    tags: education

  • Richard Conlin: FOUR TRUTHS ABOUT THE ROOSEVELT REZONE

    Nice after-action summary of the controversial Roosevelt neighborhood rezone.

    tags: seattle

    • Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

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