Author: gregoryheller

I am at Jenn’s house for the upcoming project managers’ retreat, and have been playing with an XO (OLPC). After spending far too much time trying to open it, and far too much time trying to save a document, and far too much time playing with TamTamJam (the music program) I decided to try to…

Sign the petition demanding that political reporters ask the presidential candidates about climate change.

In my ongoing campaign to think and be carbon neutral, and spread the message far and wide, I asked the DrupalCon Boston organizers to post information about offsetting the carbon footprint associated with traveling to DrupalCon in March.I hope that individuals and shops will consider purchasing offsets for their DrupalCon associated travel, as well as…

Just before the holiday break, I spoke with Alyssa Royce, Editor of JUSTCAUSE about non profits, the internet and the social networking (full disclosure: they are one of our clients, and I worked with them on the site which launched at the end of the summer).  Alyssa was researching an article on nonprofits and social…

CivicActions has been a proud sponsor of all manner of Drupal events, most recently our Gold Sponsorship of DrupalCon in Barcelona, September 2007, but also Drupal Camps in New York, Seattle, Toronto and Berkeley.  Last year when the Drupal Association started accepting donations a number of our partners and contractors made donations.

GOOD Magazine’s January/February 2008 IDEAS! issue features the WITNESS Video Hub.

As folks might know, I’m a bit of an eco-geek.  I’ve been talking about my carbon footprint for a few years now and can remember when it might cause someone’s eyes to completely glaze over.  But then we learned about An Inconvenient Truth, a new island was discovered after part of Greenland’s ice sheet melted,…

ChangeTheMargins.com is a small campaign for small change that collectively could have a big impact.  The idea is to get people, manufacturers and even software companies to change the margins on the printed page.  Seems pretty simple right?!  We all forgo the generous standard 1.5 inch margin for a more economical .75 inch margin (i…

Recently Ron pointed my attention to Scientific Web Design: 23 Actionable Lessons From Eye-Tracking Studies. Interestingly, someone from virtual hosting emailed us about the study as well. I found 6, 10, 19, 20 of particular interest, especially for sites that are already built. These items are largely related to content strategy.

Last week Aaron blogged about how a movie ticket purcahse landed on his Facebook MiniFeed. (Aaron commented on that post with an update, but I thought it warranted a bit more attention).