Politics, the environment, technology, activism. And stuff.
Posted in General on Jun 10th, 2010
We were chatting a bit today at Groundwire HQ, and it occurred to me that there is a fair amount of conceptual resonance between our notion of an “Engagement Pyramid” and badge/achievement systems such as those on Stack Overflow, Foursquare or your Playstation 3/Xbox 360. Just a thought.
Posted in General on May 13th, 2010
Matt Yoder here at Groundwire is brewing up a really nice new feature for his already-excellent Google Analytics integration for Plone, collective.googleanalytics: tracking of external links, file downloads and mailto: links via Google Analytics “event tracking.” If you’re not already familiar with collective.googleanalytics, that’s OK — it’s still in beta. But it’s definitely worth [...]
Posted in General on Apr 20th, 2010
I’m very excited to share the news that Groundwire has just hired Neal Myrick to be our new executive director. He’s got a great mix of nonprofit executive experience, technology chops, and a passion for environmental activism and social change. I continue to be humbled by opportunity to work amongst such talented colleagues, and Neal [...]
Posted in General on Mar 17th, 2010
My friends Tim Walker and Michael Silberman have been doing some thinking about the long-term problems with many of the approaches to date about social change + technology and have popped out a provocative (and very welcome!) manifesto about the need for “web thinking.” http://www.echoditto.com/insights/webthinking I was honored to contribute some thoughts on the early [...]
Posted in General on Feb 17th, 2010
We’ve got two open positions at Groundwire right now: one for a CRM database consultant and one for a manager for our “Groundwire Labs” innovation program. Both are incredible opportunities for a creative, entrepreneurial social change technologist who wants to join one of the most accomplished teams in the nonprofit sector. I’ve been here for [...]
Posted in General on Dec 10th, 2009
Groundwire’s Salesforce CRM consulting practice continues to grow explosively, and we’re again looking to hire a smart, passionate CRM consultant to build engagement and organizing databases for our environmental movement client organizations. This is a great opportunity to work at the cutting edge of nonprofit technology and to be part of a tight-knit, collaborative team. [...]
Posted in General on Nov 14th, 2009
Come join our team at Groundwire (formerly ONE/Northwest) and help us build a better world! Groundwire is growing, and we’re looking for an experienced strategy consultant to join our team. Our ideal candidate will have real world, senior level organizing and/or fundraising experience (online and offline), believe in the importance of relationship building for [...]
Posted in General on Oct 16th, 2009
My imminent return from sabbatical is not the only HR news at ONE/Northwest… we’re also hiring in our CRM consulting team! If you’re an experienced CRM database consultant who’s looking for a great opportunity to help organizations make transformational social change, then we want you as our new CRM Consultant. ONE/Northwest is a pretty incredible [...]
Posted in General on Oct 16th, 2009
Alas, with the arrival of the fall rains comes the end of my three-month sabbatical from ONE/Northwest. I return to work on Monday. I’ll be refocusing my role a bit — more time on strategy and writing, less time on web consulting. ONE/Northwest itself is headed for some pretty exciting changes, and it will be [...]
Posted in General on Jul 3rd, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in General on Jul 24th, 2008
We launched our biggest Plone-powered website ever last night: High Country News. We’re still recovering from the final push, but we’ll offer a detailed technical writeup soon. In the meantime, check out how elegant and powerful a Plone-powered newspaper website can be. Send design-related love notes to HCN’s technical director Ryan Foster.
Posted in General on Jul 16th, 2008
While several ONE/Northwest staffers (like me!) are fairly dedicated bloggers, we’ve never had an organizational blog. Thanks to our summer social media intern Daniel Bachhuber, now we do.ONE/Blog will mostly address environmental organizing and citizen engagement, with a bit of tools-and-tactics geekery thrown in, and lots of interesting links.If you’re interested in the cutting edge [...]
Posted in General on Jul 1st, 2008
Can you guess which ONE/Northwest staffer said, “If someone says ‘leverage resources for improved engagement collaboration’ I guarantee that nobody will be paying attention by the end of the sentence.” Hint: it wasn’t me, if you can believe that.
Posted in General on Mar 19th, 2008
[18:00] I’m liveblogging from the event ONE/Northwest is hosting tonight, titled “Political Campaigns and Technology.” We’ve got about 50 people in our office here in Seattle, gathered together for a fast-paced peer-to-peer learning session in which we’re going to explore the various ways that political campaigns are using technology to build and sustain relationships, and [...]
Posted in General on Mar 8th, 2008
My amazing colleagues here at ONE/Northwest just launched Sightline Daily, a project we’ve been working on for the past few months for our downstairs neighbors at Sightline Institute. (Big props to our friends at Web Collective, too, who contributed a bunch of heavy behind-the-scenes technical lifting, including some last-minute bug fixing!) Sightline Daily covers sustainability [...]
Posted in General on Feb 14th, 2008
We’ve just come off our biggest year of staff growth ever, and gosh darn it, we’re hiring again. If you want to join the hottest nonprofit database consulting team this side of… anywhere, then check out our job description at: http://onenw.org/about/jobs/CRM-ConsultantÂ
Posted in General on Dec 4th, 2007
Those of you who missed our recent event “Online Social Networks: Can They Power Social Change” missed a good time and a packed house with a ton of energy and enthusiasm. Fortunately, we got a decent video of our eight 5-minute presentations, which you can watch online at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh3hlU97_wo Warning: the video’s just under an [...]
Posted in General on Nov 15th, 2007
Right this very minute, ONE/Northwest is hosting a “brain trust” event where 60+ people are gathered to talk about online social networks and their potential for powering social change. Here’s a liveblog of my notes: Gideon Rosenblatt, ONE/Northwest (http://www.onenw.org) Executive Director We are a capacity builder that helps environmental groups engage people in environmental protection. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 27th, 2007
Our database consulting practice here at ONE/Northwest is continuing to boom. We’re looking to add another database consultant to our team here in Seattle:http://www.onenw.org/about/jobs/CRM-ConsultantCome help us build next generation relationship management systems for kick-ass environmental groups!
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 20th, 2007
My colleagues and I at ONE/Northwest have been spending a lot of time engaging with an Open Source software development community (the folks who make Plone) over the past two years. It’s been an amazing learning experience. The following essay summarizes our experiences and attempts to tease out someulearnings both for nonprofits and for Open [...]
