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 [...]
Archive for March, 2008
Obama Rewriting Rules for Raising Campaign Money Online - washingtonpost.com
Posted in Strategy, Websites that Work on March 31, 2008 | No Comments »
A List Apart: Articles: Sign Up Forms Must Die
Posted in Strategy on March 31, 2008 | No Comments »
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 [...]
What do Green for All and Sightline Daily News have in common?
Posted in Websites that Work on March 26, 2008 | No Comments »
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: [...]
Tools I use
Posted in Tools & Techniques on March 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Power to the servers?
Posted in How 'bout that on March 14, 2008 | No Comments »
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 [...]
What Makes People Give? - New York Times
Posted in Strategy on March 13, 2008 | No Comments »
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 [...]
does the home page still matter?
Posted in Strategy on March 11, 2008 | No Comments »
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 [...]

