Jon Stahl’s Journal

Thanks to: Tobias Ahlers Yves Moisan Matthew Latterell Patrick Shaw William Murphy Eric Steele Scott Paley Vincenzo Barone Niels [...]

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… those of you reading in an aggregator will have to click on through to see a Sprout in all of its glory. Congrats to Carnet and the Sprout Builder team on an amazing launch, and thanks for sneaking me into the beta.  I can’t wait to play around more and create more really cool widgets [...]

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Tracking “Ladder of Engagement” Organizing With Salesforce — ONE/Northwest How we are using Salesforce databases to model “Ladder of Engagement” organizing strategies. (tags: database nptech organizing salesforce) [...]

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Online Engagement: Climbing the Ladder of Engagement good summary of the “ladder of engagement” concept (tags: organizingtechniques organizing)

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Thanks to Thomas Zeleny and Tannic, Inc. for becoming the most recent donors to the Plone Strategic Planning Summit. We’re just a few days from the end of our fundraising drive (and the summit itself!), and we’ve reached $3345 toward are goal of $5000 from 21 donors. The Plone Foundation will match donations dollar-for-dollar, so [...]

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New research suggests the Malcom Gladwell-popularized theory of “Influentials” (or Gatekeepers) doesn’t hold water. Really interesting article in FastCompany about research Duncan Watts: Watts, for one, didn’t think the gatekeeper model was true. It certainly didn’t match what he’d found studying networks. So he decided to test it in the real world by remounting the [...]

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amCharts: customizable free flash charts and graphs (tags: charts flash graphics)

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EveryBlock: A news feed for your block. interesting experiment with hyperlocal news & data aggregation (tags: aggregation interesting media news)

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Python overtakes Perl, stiffs Ruby on its way to language of the year 2007 (tags: programming python)

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23 Actionable Lessons from Eye-Tracking Studies Great, simple design tips. (tags: tips webdesign) Fonality [...]

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Thanks to Pompilio Fanelli and repeat donor Sune Toft/Headnet, we’re now at the 60% mark of the Plone Foundation’s Plone Strategic Planning Summit travel scholarship drive! 17 folks from the Plone community have contributed a total of $3035 — that’s pretty amazing, thanks to all of you who’ve stepped up to the challenge!We’ve [...]

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5 Ways Free Online Petitions Can Be Improved | NetSquared, a project of TechSoup.org Some good suggestions for online petition tool design. (tags: design online-activism)

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Denis Mishunov, Totsie Marine and Virginio Fanelli are the latest contributors to the Plone Foundation’s Plone Strategic Planning Summit travel scholarship drive!We’ve now reached 16 contributors and $2615 towards our $5000 goal.Thanks to all of you for making the Plone Strategic Planning Summit possible!

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“Dude, Steve Jobs just hacked into your computer and stole four dollars from your bank account.” Me, to Jeff, after watching “Die Hard 4″ via the new iTunes Movie Rental store

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Thanks to: Jesse Synder Graham Perrin Florian Schulze Jean-Pascal Houde Sune Toft / Headnet For becoming the five most recent sponsors of the Plone Strategic Planning Summit! We’ve now reached 13 donors, and $2115 — which, with the Plone Foundation’s matching funds, [...]

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Feature: Turn Your $60 Router into a User-Friendly Super-Router with Tomato (tags: wifi wirelessnetworking)

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The Best Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs: Scientific Lab Test vs. Incandescent Great test results of popular CFLs (tags: CFLs environment light-bulbs)

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Thanks to: Youenn Boussard George Bray Christopher Johnson Aleksandr Vladimirskiy …for becoming the latest supporters of the Plone Foundation’s upcoming Plone Strategic Planning Summit! We’ve raised $1610 of our $5000 goal — not too bad for only four days! And with the Plone Foundation’s [...]

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A great nugget of deep wisdom from Jon Udell that rings so true to my experiences in nonprofit technology work: Advocates for powerful ideas and methods that are long extant but have yet to fully bear fruit may tend to become nostalgic, appear misguided, act bitter, lose focus. These are counterproductive behaviors. So how do you [...]

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The Plone Foundation (full disclosure: I’m proud to serve on the board) is raising $5000 to support travel scholarships for their upcoming first-ever Plone Strategic Planning Summit. If you’re using Plone (or even just thinking about it), this is a great opportunity to make a smart investment in the vibrant future of Plone.Not only [...]

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