Politics, the environment, technology, activism. And stuff.
Posted in General on Jan 12th, 2010
It occurred to me yesterday that the real challenge we[1] face is not the question of “how do we apply technology tools to organizations?” but more “how do we help organizations & people transform themselves so that they are more able to harness the power of technology?” [1] “we” = those of us standing astride the [...]
Posted in General on Jan 3rd, 2010
Discussing the merits of the astrolabe vs. the iPhone in a recent TED talk, Tom Wujec offered the following idea, which I paraphrase slightly: With “improved” technology, what we gain is precision and accuracy; what we lose is a sense of connection and context and wholeness.
Posted in General on Nov 6th, 2009
As many of my readers likely know by now, my organization ONE/Northwest has just rebranded itself as Groundwire. Obviously, our domain name changed, and with it our email addresses. One of the many “switchover” tasks we faced was the challenge of updating our email addresses on the many Sympa-powered email lists we host. The obvious solution [...]
Posted in General on Aug 10th, 2008
Congrats to the WalkScore team for being featured in today’s Sunday New York Times! Founded in July 2007 by Mike Mathieu, the chairman of Front Seat Management in Seattle, WalkScore works with Google Maps and census data. Type in a street address on the site, and within seconds a list and map appear showing the nearest grocery stores, restaurants, [...]
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, [...]
Posted in General on Feb 28th, 2008
Please go read this incredibly insightful reflection by Eugene Eric Kim. If you’re too lazy, I’ll clip the most important part for ya: The following day, I co-led a session on this topic with AngusParker. Two of the participants were dealing with the specific challenge of connecting members of a national network of leaders in [...]