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Archive for March, 2008

We have all been watching the Obama campaign with dropped jaws over the past months.
This is only been a problem for those of us who support him who are starting to get sore lips and dry mouths.
I found this recent article in the Washington Post to be very intriguing. When I first went [...]

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Even something as simple as a form can matter a lot when you consider it in terms of an engagement strategy…

I’ll just come out and say this: sign-up forms must die. In the introduction to this book I described the process of stumbling upon or being recommended to a web service. You arrive eager to [...]

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I just read through a report published in April of 2007 by iProspect together with JuniperResearch that looks at the behaviors of users of online social networking websites. The report has a lot of great data and I highly recommend spending a half a hour to forge through the data in the report. [...]

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Both organizations are using new tools and strategies to engage people in preserving our environment.
I just got an email from my co-worker, Sam Knox, the famed voice behind so many of the how-to screen-casts on the Learn Plone website.
Sam forwarded me a link to an article in today’s New York Times about green jobs: [...]

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I am looking forward to reading Charlene Li’s and Josh Bernoff’s soon to be released book Groundswell. I just spent a few minutes playing with a nice little tool they just launched that helps organizations profile their customers’/members’ social computing behaviors.
This is a fun little tool that is powered by data that Forrester has [...]

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Tools I use

I have had a number of conversations lately about individual pieces of technology that I use daily. This got me thinking that I really don’t know what my whole tools set really looks like. So, I thought I would take a few minutes to put down in writing the tools I use on the regular [...]

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Power to the servers?

I heard a statistic recently that blew my mind:
According to a recently published study by Jon Koomey of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the nation’s servers utilize about 0.6 percent of the electricity for the entire country. When accounting for cooling and other support infrastructure, the amount consumed by servers and data centers doubles to [...]

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I found this article, from last Sunday’s NY Times to be fascinating.  I have been working a lot lately to create processes that conservation organizations can use to build engagement campaigns and I found this article to be fascinating.  The focus here is on why people donate money, but much of what they are saying [...]

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Barrick Schmitt, VP of User Experience from Avenue A/Razorfish published a great article called “does the home page still matter?: Why distribution trumps destination for publisher and advertisers” in their recently published report “2008 Digital Outlook Report.”
The report is about 150 pages long and is filled with valuable data and observations. I HIGHLY recommend taking [...]

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