Jon Stahl’s Journal

Affordable Web Conferencing And Online Collaboration Tools: Reviews Roundup (tags: collaboration web tools reviews) TaskSwitchXP - famous alt-tab manager - NTWind […]

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Google Earth Case Study: Neighbors Against Irresponsible Logging nice demo of how to do enviro flyovers in Google Earth (tags: gis communications google-earth maps)

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NTEN_ITstaffing_survey.pdf (application/pdf Object) (tags: onelist-ideas)

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With Plone 3 on the horizon, our thoughts here at ONE/Northwest are once again turning towards taxonomizing content in a Plone site. I looked back at Jonah Bossewich’s post “Death and Taxonomies,” in which he discusses Drupal’s taxonomy module, and found that much of it still rings true. To briefly resummarize, Plone […]

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Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace danah boyd says: facebook is “hegemonic” and myspace is “subaltern”. (tags: culture networks social_software facebook)

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Shae Allen offers a sharp, funny riff on the thrill of difficult web design clients. Dear Mr. Architect: Please design and build me a house. I am not quite sure of what I need, so you should use your discretion. My house should have somewhere between two and forty-five bedrooms. Just make sure the plans are such that the […]

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Term Extraction Documentation for Yahoo! Search Web Services automatically extracts keywords from content (tags: tagging keywords api)

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Zack rants, Marty riffs. Most the people talking to you (especially nonprofits) think of the web/internet as a tactical support for the rest of the operations. They want the “web” guy to support our restoration initiative, the web team to support fundraising, the web team to support field, the web to support membership. Web is a tactic […]

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We’re finishing up a big intranet project here at ONE/Northwest, and that led to an interesting conversation between me, Dave Averill and Gideon Rosenblatt about tagging and keywording content in a website. Here are a few notes from it. Definitions: 1) “Tags” - keywords that are stored per-item and per-user, ala del.icio.us. Plone doesn’t provide […]

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Welcome to LearnPlone! (tags: plone tutorial cms)

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Jeff at Lullabot is dreaming big dreams about the potential for Drupal in the social change sector.  A great mix of optimism and realism.  Worth paying attention to, even if you are, say, a Plone developer.

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Goose Networks: Stop going. Start Goosing. Cell-phone enable, real-time on-the-fly ridesharing. Finally! (tags: environment)

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How to Write a Marketing RFP that Gets the Best Consultant or Firm to Deliver Everything You Need - On Time and on Budget great tips from Nancy Schwartz […]

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CMS Watch’s Tony Byrne recently published his annual “kudos and shortcomings” report on 40 major web content management systems.  It’s a summary of a much more in-depth pay-to-read report. Byrne evaluted CMS in 30 different categories — user-generated content, usability, overall value, etc.  In each category, he identified one leader, several “honorable mentions” and several laggards. […]

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Jeff Brooks offers some sound advice on organizational logos: You can agonize all day and night about getting a logo just right, but you’ll be barking up the wrong tree. Your logo will never bring a lot of meaning to the table. The best logo gets out of the way and lets reality do the work. Instead, work on making […]

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Organizing - a curriculum by Marshall Ganz This Web module contains learning materials that touch upon such questions as: * What is organizing? * How do people organize? * What skills are required of organizers? * […]

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My colleague Steve Andersen just got back from Salesforce’s Nonprofit Roadmap Summit, upon which he reported back favorably. But, ever the modest one, Steve neglected to mention that there was a nice little video of him reporting out from a brainstorming session on the future of Salesforce’s nonprofit CRM platform.  I’m fortunate to get to see […]

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Transitman! To dramatize the hard, quiet work demanded of transit riders, Seattle artist Christian French created a persona, TransitMan, a superhero who takes public transportation as his superpower. Then he actually donned a superhero costume and spent a lot of time commuting and traveling and documenting the travails of a man in tights dedicated to reducing personal automobile use. Fantastic. Hat […]

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Idealware: Tales of River Databases (tags: idealware databases onelist-ideas) FunkLoad FunkLoad is a functional […]

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bobbyvandersluis.com | Unobtrusive Flash Objects (UFO) v3.22 probably the right way to do flash embedding in the end (tags: flash javascript)

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