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725 posts on careers, communication, technology and civic life, since 2005.
If you haven’t heard yet, Microsoft and Yahoo! have inked a 10 year deal to partner on search and advertising. You can learn more about the details of the deal , which I won’t go into here. If the deal is approved by regulators, we could see changes in Yahoo and Bing search and advertising early next year, from the sound of it.
This year, for the first time since I have been in Seattle, I plan to attend Gnomedex . Unlike so many other conferences that force you to choose between sessions, adn then sometimes you can't even squeeze into the session you want, Gnomedex is a single track conference. Only one speaker at a time. ANd…
This Saturday, June 13th, Capitol Hill Seattle Blog and Sustainable Capitol Hill are teaming up to put on the " Capitol Hill Community Garage Sale " which is a fantastic idea, IMO. Coming from NYC, the idea of yard sales and Garage sales had become pretty alien to me. It seems that every weekend…
Just about a month ago I returned from the NTEN NTC in San Francisco where I had the opportunity to talk with Peggy Duvette, Angus Parker of WiserEarth and Leif Utne of Zanby and organizing force behind Open Wiser. I then blogged about the OpenWiser fundraising drive to raise $10,000 to build an open API to WiserEarth’s database of information about organizations around the world working towards a more sustainable civilization.
I recently move from Fremont back to Capitol Hill in Seattle, to a nice old house (over 100 years!) which is a nice change from living in a relatively new townhouse. There's more character. If you need my address, then you probably know how to get in touch with me, so do that, and I'll…
One of the things I do for CivicActions is run the marketing group. Aside from marketing CivicActionn via our blog, twitter, conference attendance, and other events, I also help our clients with social media strategy, listending campaigns and content strategy. I'm also an SEOMoz Pro member, and just heard about the Inbound Marketing…
At the Seattle Drupal User Group meeting tonight I gave a short presentation on the directory structure that we like to use at CivicActions. Some people asked if I would post my slide deck explaining the directory structure , so here it is.
Smashing Magazine posted a really great “best practices” piece about web design for non profits . They then provided 20 examples of great non profit websites , among them, two CivicActions clients, Amnesty International , of which they said: The Amnesty International site makes great use of color, including a bright yellow header and accents mixed with shades of gray and black. A slideshow on the home page shows current news and research. Links to join, donate, or take other action are featured prominently in the sidebar and a link to media information is included in the header. The home page also includes plenty of current news and resources below the main content up top. And Witness.org , for whom we built the Video Hub . We are very proud of our work for these two worldchanging clients, and happy that they are being recognized not only for their great work, but for their websites as exemplars for the non profit sector.
I recently had the opportunity to take Edward Tufte’s one day course, Presenting Data and Information . Tufte is the master of the subject, and everything I’ve heard about his course was positive, I can now concur and recommend that anyone interested in data visualization and usability should take this course of you have the chance, it’s really quite affordable and you get a set of his books with registration.
We’ve created many sites with user profiles, and every site seems to have a few differences, but there are certain best practices which I would like to share. Module Requirements This article concerns user profiles in Drupal 6, and recommends that you have the following modules installed: CCK Content Profile Auto Node Title Filefield (optional) Imagefield (optional) Link (optional)