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725 posts on careers, communication, technology and civic life, since 2005.
I think that tagging is the most exciting "new" "technology" to come around in a while. I have blogged about it before and have apodcast up about it, but jsut in this week alone I have been further exploring hte use of tagging ( the second bullet or folksonomy for more information) You can see some…
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I have been thinking more ad more about data security of late which leads to the larger concept of security culture particularly in non-profit and political realms. The recent incidents that have lead to me thinking about this relate to two clients of mine (these are just the two most recent incidents, it is true…
So mainstream media is finally starting to pick up on this development that will ruin (or revolutionize) the way media covers politicians. There has been recent coverage of pol blogging (driven by SF councilman's blog and others that have been in the news lately). But I haven't seen much about podcasting until I saw…
The best part of these conferences tends to be the ad-hoc conversation that takes place over lunch and between sessions. I often wonder if there is a way to institutionalize these types of hallway conversations and make them a more significant part of the conference. This is not to say that the sessions aren't helpful,…
Hats off to Rich and Liat and all the other Organizers Collaborative folks. This was a really good conference and super affordable (the key IMHO). WE have a hard enough time convincing organizations to spend money on tech, let alone hundreds of dollars on sending staff to tech conferences. Micah Sifry 's key note address was…
I just got home from Boston via the Chinatown Bus and figured I would post up a short blog about the session that I moderated. The idea behind the session was to have a discussion about campaign data solutions. By campaign I am referring not only to political campaign, but legislative/advocacy campaigns that require…
I helped Rich come up with the concept for this panel. Emily Thorson from echoditto.com is leading off this panel with a discussion of some basic website functionality, and cool bells and wistles that can be added to your website. Little sidetack here here are some links for folks Content Management Systems: wordpress.org , typepad.com ,…
So i was just taking notes on this entire session and i lost them. I am fooling and really should write in a word doc and then cut and paste into my blog. The good news is you are not going to get my near transcript like notes of the session and you will get…
Micah has started his keynote by saying that he would like this to be an anti keynote. His one requirement was that there be real time chat. Democracy in america is changing. Organic and federated organizations don't exist anymore. Politics is top down (command and control) and driven by elites (focus groups tested, mass media…