Author: gregoryheller
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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!
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Kitchen Squatters? Really?
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<p><a href="http://www.seattlemag.com/0p38a2491/trend-kitchen-squatters/" target="_blank">Seattle Magazine </a>ran a long story about what they called "Kitchen Squatters" this month. In what I would take to be an attempt at wit, Karen Johnson, the article's author repeats this term "Kitchen Squatters". If I said nothing else about it, you might think I was talking about people who adversely possess…
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Need A Technical Team For Your Knight News Challenge Project?
“You Invent. We Fund it.” That is the promise of the Knight News Challenge, the innovation contest that “aims to advance the future of news by funding new ways to digitally inform communities.” This year, the Knight Foundation is giving away as much as $5 million for fantastic ideas that use open-source technology to distribute news…
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Thoughts On Alex Steffen's Thoughts On Carbon Neutral Cities
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<p>On Wednesday evening I went to Town Hall Seattle to see Alex Steffen of <a href="http://worldchanging.org">Worldchanging</a> talk about carbon neutral cities, and I guess, specifically Seattle and our future. In 2009 after we had local elections Steffen also spoke on this topic at Town Hall, for two nights. Both nights the house was basically sold…
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Post Election News Diet
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<p>Yesterday was rough. I am not usually an electoral optimist — well maybe I actually am, having worked for many underdogs I held out hope even after returns started to come in showing by candidate slipping behind — but in the last few weeks I really could not believe that the Republican party energized by…
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CiviCRM Duplicate Matching Threshold Configuration Tips
CiviCRM offers a function to check for duplicate contacts either manually, or on user submission. Duplicate matching is very useful for preventing duplicate records from being created when you allow anonymous users to register for events, or make donations. Without it, ever time an anonymous user did one of those two things, you would get…
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Heading To The Pacific Northwest Drupal Summit in Vancouver
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<p><a href="http://pnwdrupalsummit.org" target="_blank"><img align="left" src="http://pnwdrupalsummit.org/sites/default/files/banner-vertical.png" alt="I am going to Drupal Summit 2010 this October 2-3rd" /></a>I'm excited to head up to Vancouver in a few weeks where I'll be attending the Pacific Northwest Drupal Summit, now it its second year. I've been to Vancouver a few times, but don't feel like I have a really…
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Voting Open on NTEN’s 2011 NTC Sessions
NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) is a pretty amazing event for nonprofit staff people, consultants and thought leaders working in that sector. The NTC is growing at a pretty strong clip, last year’s conference had over 1300 technologists and nonprofit staffers. The 2011 NTC, which promises to be even bigger will be held in Washington…
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Announcing Two CiviCRM User Trainings
I’m really excited to announce that I will be running two CiviCRM user trainings in September and October. Back in March and April I was involved in two similar trainings, one with Dave Greenberg from CiviCRM at the NTC, and the other during the workshop day before DrupalCon in San Francisco. The feedback from both…
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Looking For An Email Service Provider? Groundwire Sizes Up The Options
We often hear the question, “What email service provider do you recommend?” from clients, prospective clients, or even just friends. For those using CiviCRM we recommend using the built in CiviMail in conjunction with an SMTP service like CiviSMTP to handle deliverability issues. But for those not using CiviCRM the answer is always a tricky…