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725 posts on careers, communication, technology and civic life, since 2005.

  1. Net2 ThinkTank: Key Questions To Ask When Considering Social Media Training & Experimentation

    Amy Sample Ward at NetSquared posted the following question for the Net2ThinkTank: What are the key questions nonprofit orgs should ask to help them determine how to prioritize social media training and experimentation as they do their technology and organization-strengthening planning? I provide Social Media Training and Coaching to our clients. While there are many good reasons to make social media a part of an organization’s overall internet strategy, there are plenty of wrong reasons too.

  2. Blog Action Day: Free Software & Poverty

    What does Free Software have to do with ending poverty? More than you probably think. It is not just at the core of consumer products like the Android loaded G1 phone from HTC, or the One Laptop Per Child XO. Linux operating systems like Ubuntu are deployed by community technology centers around the globe providing access to the internet, and all the information, data and resources that come with it. The Free Software (while having $0 in licensing costs) also reduces the cost of hardware, and allows programmers to improve upon it, and share their improvements without fear.

  3. Why And How Your Organization Can Jump Into The Twitterverse

    During a recent client meeting, I had the opportunity to explain Twitter to an organization with very little social media experience. I think my explanation may be of use to others who are just starting to consider using Twitter or other micro-blogging platforms (though I would argue that Twitter is where the people are and thus is where any organization looking to jump in should be. The Basics of Twitter

  4. Air Desktop Client for Utterli

    this is pretty neat. would be great if it could do audio and video! Mobile post sent by gregoryheller using Utterli . Replies .

  5. BADCamp: CivicActions Sponsors Bay Area DrupalCamp 2008

    CiviActions is a proud sponsor of the upcoming BADCamp (Bay Area DrupalCamp) in Berkeley the weekend of October 10th and 11th. As I’ve said before, CivicActions is really excited to help make these events happen with our sponsorship and our team’s participation. DrupalCamps are a great opportunity for folks to learn more about Drupal, organize to work on projects and modules, and also to recruit.

  6. Tweeting the Debate With Current TV

    Four years ago at Telephone Bar in NYC, Noel Hidalgo and I talked about an idea to run an IRC back channel during the presidential debates . This morning I saw a tweet from him about remixing the debates and reminded him of our idea. He has now blogged about something very cool. Current TV and Twitter have teamed up and will be aggregating debate related tweets and displaying them on Current TV.

  7. DrupalSouth: The New Zealand Drupal Event for 2008

    CivicActions is a proud sponsor of DrupalSouth ; the New Zealand Drupal Event for 2008. DrupalSouth will bring NZ’s Drupal community together for the first NZ-wide Drupal event and the first ever DrupalCamp in NZ. A collection of individual Drupal professionals in Christchurch, New Zealand are organizing the event, including our very own Bevan Rudge . Bevan will be presenting on Google Maps in Drupal; The Hub Map , in which he will showcase the Hub Map , and talk about implementing Google maps mashups in Drupal.

  8. Setting Up CiviContribute Forms For Anonymous Users (ACLs and User Access)

    Here is a little tip that will make your life easier, especially the first time you go down the road of setting up CiviCRM’s CiviContribute forms for a website where anonymous users will be making donations (not anonymous donations, just users that are not logged in). When setting up CiviContribute you need to grant access via the Drupal User Access to “make online contributions” to anonymous users, AND you also need to add an ACL to CiviCRM for “Everyone” to access the profile you are using for online donations.

  9. Aggregating Delicious Bookmarks From Multiple People

    Last week Andy Laken asked me if there was a way to aggregate only select bookmarks from a group of users that would prevent an “unauthorized” user from posting a bookmark to the pool. The aggregated bookmars would then be published ona website. After a little bit of thinking and some exploration while on the phone, we figured it out. Here is a quick and dirty recipe for creating a group bookmark feed from delicious. Get everyone delicious accounts

  10. Groundswell Fights DRM in Spore Video Game

    News of what appears to be a distributed, spontaneous action against the new video game “Spore” because of the DRM included with the game has been spreading around the web since yesterday (when I first heard about it from Fred Benson of Free Culture ) , and the action seems to be growing.