Month: March 2005

<p><em>I updated this now that i am back in NY and had a little time.</em></p> <p>But a cute little joke, one of the panelist from <a href="http://www.ashoka.org">Ashoka</a> said some people in her org have come to call open source "Open Sores" because of their bad experience with some OSS.</p> <p>This session started with a conversation…

<p>What do I mean by "On THe Fly Web Tool Deployment"? </p> <p>So we tried to set up a web chat yesterday, or rather "online" chat. we used an IRC channel at free node. The barrier to entry was kind of high. How many people are used to using irc? well not many. We had…

<p>The Panel has grown to include Jo Lee from <a href="http://www.citizenspeak.org/" target="_blank">citizen speak</a> and Kaliya Hamlin <a href="http://www.integrativeactivism.net/" target="_blank">Integrative Activism</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.network-centricadvocacy.net/" target="_blank">Marty Kearns</a> from <a href="http://www.greenmediatoolshed.org/" target="_blank">Green Media Tool Shed</a></p> <p>Dan Robbinson of <a href="http://www.civicactions.com" target="_blank">CivicAction</a>.</p> <p>Marty Kearns: Things are connected. Society is changing, suspend some of your assumptions. Social networks are not new.…

<p>This session includied GReg Nelson from CTSG and Sheeraz from Get Active and Adam from move.on. The talk is ranging around from The MoveOn Bake sales to get active's clients work. I didn't find much take aways from this, other than that when you do virtual organizing you need to do LOTS of meat space…

<p>Just got done with lunch. We had a civicspace table that was bursting at the seems. I didn;t talk much about CivicSpace, but did have an interesting conversion with some folks (Sheldon from <A href="http://www.prwatch.org/" target="_blank">Center For Media and Democracy</a>) about media and fake news, parking, suvs and running a campaign to make suv owners…

<p>This session used the case of EngenderHealth and YMCA of USA intra/extra nets. In both cases these were major custom built systems. Forum One communications moderated and also showed their system.</p> <p>YMCA USA has a ratio of 5 users to 1 content editor.</p> <p>Both orgs have some folks dedicated in large part to manage the…

<p>"Blogs are good"<br /> "Blogs are easy"<br /> "Blogs are cheap"</p> <p>Blogs can give instant info about your organization to the poeple who are interested.</p> <p>"Six Apart is a small company" yet they have 80 employees and have offices in US, Paris and Tokyo.</p> <p>I think that we could have set up civicspace and started…

<p>Join the live chat at <a href="http://www.gregoryheller.com/chat" title="http://www.gregoryheller.com/chat">http://www.gregoryheller.com/chat</a><br /> Select "for text only browsers"<br /> rather than the Optimized (firewall)</p>

<p>Mena just told us that she dropped her computer and wasn't able to review her speech until last night. She is going to talk about weblogs and blogging for non profits.</p> <p>She is a donor to nonprofits, link her life by giving time money or combo of both. Gives more money than time. To causes…

<p>I just got an email imploring me to register eearly for the PDF conference. I thoroughly enjoyed last years PDF conference, and found it very valuable. I clicked through to see <a href="http://www.personaldemocracy.com/conference" target="_blank">more info</a> about the event and was shocked to see the price: $225 with the early bird discount $295 general admission. </p>…