Ideas4Oregon and UserVoice
Topics: Tech Tips
By now, most of you have seen our ideas4oregon campaign (you can read the original announcement) and some of you might be wondering about the tools we
used to run the campaign. I thought I'd outline what we did, for those who are interested.
The Story and Recipe of This Website
Many people and organizations have asked us, why did we use Drupal to build this site and was it the right tool? As the one who advised it and did the bulk of the technical work, I thought I'd make that the subject of my first MMT Blog entry. Right from the beginning of the project to rebuild our site, we knew we wanted to use open source and we knew we wanted to share what we'd learned with other nonprofits and, well, everyone. We were hopeful that the lessons we learned and our shared thinking and ideas would be useful to others. So here follows our rationale.
Getting Geosocial- The Internet of Real Places
Topics: Tech
Geosocial Netowrking, or "lo-so" (location-social) networking, has been all the rage of late.
How Semantic is Your Web?
Topics: New Media Tips
The semantic web
(lately being called web 3.0 among other buzzwords) is the future of
our online networking. Boiled down, it's all about context. The new
technologies that have been in development to better contextualize or
networks and boost our interactivity are really starting to get awesome!
Digital Makeover: Do you need one?
Topics: Tech
Here are two great ways to start learning about social media,
examining your organization's online presence and improving the way you
work digitally.
1. We Are Media Project - from NTEN and Beth Kanter
Blogging without a blog!
Topics: Tech
I have talked about blogging and micro-blogging before, but what about blogging without a blog?
Posterous is a
new tool that let's you do just that! All you need is email, and I'd
put money on the fact that you all have email already! All you need to
do is send an email to post@posterous.com and you've just posted to your blog!
What are you covering live?
Topics: Tech
You don't need to be a reporter to be out covering a hot story live. CoverItLive
is a new blogging tool that lets you do real live blogging. It works
inside your current blog or website and lets readers follow along with
you, play by play.
But, does live coverage seem like something you wouldn't actually use? Think about these options:
