Politics, the environment, technology, activism. And stuff.
Posted in General on Jan 12th, 2010
After some soul-searching, and a prod from my dear friend and inspiration role model Sam Dorman, I’ve decided to unplug myself from “web 2.0,” “the social nets” or whatever we call the rapidly-expanding tarpit of social networking sites these days. Long story short: I’m increasingly convinced that the constant stream of tweets, status updates, Facebook wall [...]
Posted in General on Nov 30th, 2009
… by open-standards based streams, served via a distributed network of servers? OpenID + Atom/ActivityStreams + PubSubHubBub = open source twitter, facebook, etc.
Posted in General on Oct 17th, 2009
I think we would all be better off without analyses like this which inventory how many social media tools large advocacy groups are using as if using more tools is somehow indicative of sophistication, effectiveness or having a solid strategy for achieving your organizing goals. Sigh. When will consultants stop promoting this kind of shallow, tool-centric [...]
Posted in General on Aug 27th, 2009
Stumbled across an interesting, resonant paragraph from Vinnie Mirchandani that worked best for me out of context: My concern with Social CRM is we will build better antennae and pick up even more… signals. But unless we have passionate (and empowered) employees who can follow up and do something about it, we will gradually turn off [...]
Posted in General on Aug 13th, 2009
… or at least that’s my theory. I think it would be very interesting to take a truly random sample of nonprofits (any ideas on a good methodology?), and do some online research to find out how many of these nonprofits are actually being talked about “organically” online. My bet: under 10%. This thought occurred to me because [...]