Jon Stahl’s Journal

Diarised another simple tool for finding meeting times (tags: meeting planning scheduling tools calendar) […]

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… and he’s just talking about connecting Outlook 2007 and Google Calendar! Bottom-line: support for standards is necessary but not sufficient. Even when products comply with standards like iCal, people struggle mightily to use those products interoperably. It’s the conceptual barriers that get in their way. It’s really hard to figure out how a concept expressed […]

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Scalix: Linux Email, Calendaring and Messaging Platform another promising linux-based exchange-replacement (tags: email server software linux exchange) […]

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One of the nicest things about Seattle is that rare, sparkly-sunny winter’s day. Molly and I took a walk down to Carkeek Park, and discovered some great frost hidden in a shady ravine.

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Salesforce.com Releases Preview of Apex Code to Developers The idea with Apex is that Salesforce.com customers—and perhaps more importantly, partners—can develop applications and components, using not only the Apex code and dev tools, but Salesforce.com infrastructure […]

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Yesterday’s big nonprofit technology news was Convio’s acquisition of GetActive, which combines two of the largest players in the big-client integrated CMS/CRM market. The players aren’t really talking about the underlying motivations behind the deal, so it’s pretty easy to read whatever you want into the tea leaves. That said… As I’ve written before, I believe […]

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… that a Seattle condo marketing guy is named “Warren Ballard?”(Sorry all you non-Seattle folks.  Move along.)

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… ’cause somebody’s got a rant (or two, or three) coming on. Democrats and progressive orgs like the one I work for have to hire website contractors to build, maintain and host our sites. They f*ck us over a lot.This is where we vent - Internet Directors, Directors of Communications, Bloggers, Webmasters, Communications Staff interns whose job it is to […]

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DeltaCopy - Rsync for Windows (tags: backup software open-source windows) Conservation Group, Unions Joining Forces […]

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I love it when the General gets all environmental. Have you considered the possibility that the people’s wickedness is something they’ve learned from the wolves? Think about it. Alpha male wolves take multiple wives. They’re just as bad as the Mormons. What kind of example is that for our children? The sight of these alpha males […]

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Why The iPhone Won’t Make Apple A Player In Business IT (tags: apple iphone) BillHop.com […]

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Microsoft takes email design back 5 years - Campaign Monitor Blog Outlook 2007 will have severely crippled support for CSS-formatted HTML emails. Say goodbye to fancy, standards-compliant email newsletters. […]

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It’s not every day that my neighborhood is coated in rime ice.  Kinda pretty.

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Splashr creates various slideshows with flickr. limited to max 100 photos. not all are very good looking. but a possibly useful alternative to flickr’s slideshow (tags: photography […]

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David Hsu brainstorms up some great ideas for green software mini-applications (now commonly called “widgets”).My favorite is actually his first, a paper calculator: Paper calculator: [I’d like] A nice little toolbar application that tells me how many pages I’ve printed today, this week, this month and this year. If someone could combine this with this useful […]

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Fewer Excuses for Not Doing a PC Backup - New York Times nice roundup of new online backup services (tags: backup services reviews) […]

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AsteriskNOW | AsteriskNOW™ is an open source Software Appliance; a customized Linux distribution that includes Asterisk®, the Asterisk GUI, and all other software needed for an Asterisk® system. (tags: […]

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My colleagues and I from ONE/Northwest recently signed onto the Integration Proclamation, a first step towards encouraging funders, software developers and those of us who work with them to invest resources in making tools that play together better.If you agree that social change activists need tools that assume they’re part of a larger picture, not […]

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Eugene Eric Kim has some interesting musings on the importance of Group Information Hygiene and its importance for high performing groups. Worth a read if you’re a member of a collaborative group that aspires to, well, high performance.

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Base64 Online - base64 decode and encode (tags: email encoding email-newsletters) Integration Proclamation “We, […]

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