Service Outage Notification
Topics: Tech
Meyer Memorial Trust’s website and web-based grant application system (GrantIS) will be unavailable during the evening of Monday, January 30th, 2012 beginning at approximately 7pm. This outage will last approximately 2 hours. During this time, MMT will be changing the IP addresses of these servers. Some customers may not be able to reach those services after the outage due to domain name data caching and record propagation delay.
RIP DMR
MMT's Technical Operations Manager Aaron Nelson writes about a loss to the world's technical community he finds greater than the loss of Steve Jobs. Yes, our geeks blog too!
GrantIS: MMT's Application Software
Many people have asked me about Meyer Memorial Trust's GrantIS software – a database and online application system that we designed to process grant requests and awards. They want to know the what/when/why/how details and what we learned along the way.
Getting Geosocial- The Internet of Real Places
Topics: Tech
Geosocial Netowrking, or "lo-so" (location-social) networking, has been all the rage of late.
Are You and Your Org Using Firefox Yet?
Topics: Tech
OK, OK- I know Firefox isn't exactly "new media." But, as the tender of the connec+ipedia garden and a bunch of other sites, I can't tell you how many email & phone conversations I engage in regarding issues with other browsers. I have personally used Firefox for years, and I find it to be the best browser for fast, safe internet access no matter what type of computer or platform I'm using.
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 [at] posterous [dot] 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:
Open source and you!
Topics: Tech
Have you heard people in your office or friends talking about "open
source software" and not know what they meant? Well, there are a couple
opportunities to learn!
