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Functionalism Metrics For Conservation Websites

Posted in Tools & Techniques on May 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Shawn Kemp and I just spent a bit of time defining what metrics we think should be used by conservation groups to measure the success of pages on their website. For background on this, see my previous post regarding functionalism and website metrics for nonprofit websites.
1. Routers: These pages are designed to quickly move a [...]

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Pimp My News

Posted in Tools & Techniques on April 22, 2008 | No Comments »

On my walk in this morning I listened to a bit of my blog rss subscription backlog on my iPhone. Yeah, you heard right; I LISTENED to the RSS subscriptions using PimpMyNews.
Here’s how PMN explains itself:
“What is PimpMyNews?
PimpMyNews lets YOU create your very own personalized
[...]

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What Does Facebook Actually DO for Me

Posted in Tools & Techniques on April 17, 2008 | No Comments »

Remember before we had cell phones, when we went to a large event with lots of people, we often set a meeting place to come back to, in the event that we got lost… For me, that’s Facebook; It’s the place where people who have otherwise gotten separated to go to find each other.
Chris [...]

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What’s The Social Technographics Profile Of Your Customers?

Posted in Social Networking, Strategy, Tools & Techniques on March 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »

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

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 [...]

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Democracy Now! | Independent Artists Lead Fight Against Proposed New York City Regulations Limiting Filming, Photography in Public Places

Posted in Strategy, Tools & Techniques on March 10, 2008 | No Comments »

I have been meaning to blog about the Picture New York campaign since Beka Economopoulos from GreenPeace pointed it out at NOI training in San Francisco a few weeks back. This was a super low-budget project on a very short time-line. Here’s the backstory… The goals and outcomes for the campaign were very clear and [...]

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Politics Meets the Social Scene

Posted in Tools & Techniques on March 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »

We have all been watching how the political campaigns are using social media and new technologies during the primaries. 1to1 Media has a short but sweet article in it’s newsletter this week that’s worth a read. In it, Colin James, public sector manager for RightNow Technologies, which developed the CRM that Obama is using, points [...]

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Video: Twitter in Plain English

Posted in Tools & Techniques on March 9, 2008 | No Comments »

CommonCraft has a great video that explains the basics of Twitter.
I first saw this on Beth Kantor’s blog and my reaction was lukewarm. The video is fun, but I didn’t think it captured the value I get from Twitter. I have only been Twittering for a few weeks, but am finding it to be extremely [...]

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Ultra-lightweight blogging product for Plone

Posted in Tools & Techniques on March 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »

I just found this in my email inbox from Jon Stahl back on Feb. 20.
Just a quick note that we’ve cut a release of Scrawl, a new,
ultra-lightweight blogging product for Plone. We’re actively using it
in production on a couple of sites, and we think it’s a solid
lightweight option to use while we wait for [...]

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Plone Speaking Directly to Salesforce.com

Posted in Tools & Techniques on March 5, 2008 | No Comments »

I am catching up on some old news here, but I think it’s worth my noting that Plone Formgen is now linking directly into Salesforce. This is a lovely thing. There is so much more to come, but this repsresents a huge step toward the kind of integrated toolset organizations will need to deploy the [...]

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