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December 2010

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  2. Jumo And A Dunbar Number For Organizations

    This morning I read Robin Dunbar’s op-ed in the New York Times, You’ve Got To Have (150) Friends , and it got me thinking more about Jumo (read my initial thoughts on Jumo). The author’s research into the capacity of people to maintain friendships has resulted in the concept of Dunbar’s Number: that humans can really only maintain 150 relationships with other humans, regardless of what technology purports to allow.

  3. Network For Good Online Giving Study

    Network For Good , the online giving portal, just released The Online Giving Study covering 3.6 million gifts totaling $381 million from nearly 1.9 million unique donors to 66,470 nonprofit organizations from 2003 to 2009. The study only covers giving made through Network For Good’s system.

  4. Two Weeks With Jumo: My First Impressions Of The Social Network For Social Change

    Since its launch on November 30th, I’ve spent some time playing around with Jumo (it is definitely worth reading the about page) and reading other people’s accounts of their explorations of the new social network for social causes founded by Facebook cofounder and Obama 2008 Online Organizing Directory Chris Hughes.

  5. Using Price Sets In CiviCRM

    We are getting ready to launch a site for a client that makes heavy use of CiviCRM and CiviEvent. During a pre-launch training on CiviCRM the client asked about best practices for using price sets. Each year the organization runs multiple events that have a variety of prices, but from year to year the prices change, and they wanted to know if they should change the prices in a price set or create a new price set.

  6. My Life In My Flickr Photos, By Pummelvision

    This video was generated by a service called Pummelvision from my flickr photo stream . My Pummelvision from GregoryH on Vimeo . While I'm at it, here are photos of me over the last… few years via daily mug shot .

  8. SCRUM For Wedding Planning – Notes

    Yesterday I presented an Ignite Talk at Ignite Seattle 12 on the topic of using SCRUM Project Management for wedding planning . I've heard people liked it, and some…

  9. Ignite Seattle 12: SCRUM For Wedding Planning

    Here are my slides from my Ignite Talk on December 7th, 2010 in Seattle, "SCRUM Project Management For Wedding Planning" Grab the slide for my talk on SCRUM Project Management For Wedding Planning over at slideshare.

  10. Comment And Vote On Our Knight News Challenge Submissions

    Over the last few weeks a few people on our team have been buzzing away getting proposals together for the Knight News Challenge. The deadline for submission was yesterday, and our proposals are now up and ready for comments and votes!