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Tag Archives: kabissa
Pacific Northwest Drupal Summit
I am getting ready for the Pacific Northwest Drupal Summit taking place this weekend in Seattle. I’m looking forward to it – should be fun to feed my inner geek by delving into Drupal, the open source software platform that … Continue reading
Posted in Information and Communication Technology
Tagged Bainbridge Island, Drupal, kabissa, open source, redmine, Seattle
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Reconquering Twitter and shifting my Twitter following to @tobiaseigen
Recently a wonderful new Kabissa volunteer, Ziyanda Xaso, has taken charge of our social media outreach. Ziyanda has given me an opportunity I have been waiting for to let go of the @kabissa Twitter account on a daily basis and … Continue reading
Posted in Information and Communication Technology, Random, Social Media
Tagged facebook, kabissa, linkedin, twitter
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Google Drive or Dropbox or Both? What should geographically dispersed teams do?
OK, it’s time to tackle the question of the potential role of Google Drive in the online infrastructure we use at Kabissa for coordinating the work of our volunteer team spread all around the world. We use dropbox now for … Continue reading
Posted in Information and Communication Technology
Tagged Google, google docs, google drive, kabissa, nptech
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Amazee shut down on 23 December: did anybody notice?
I just remembered that in October Amazee Labs announced that it would be shutting down the amazee.com social change platform on 23 December. I blogged about it back then and was quite appalled. I completely forgot to check on the 23rd, … Continue reading
Posted in Information and Communication Technology, Social Media
Tagged amazee, facebook, kabissa, wiserearth
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The Human Rights Imperative for Grassroots Empowerment through ICT
I just spent two days at the Silicon Valley Human Rights Conference. Over 500 people came together to “examine and explore how the human rights and high tech sectors can better plan for and manage the human rights implications of … Continue reading
Posted in Information and Communication Technology, Mobile, Social Media
Tagged Capacity Building, CHANGE, Human Rights, kabissa, Time To Get Online, Tor
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On my Radar: Why Private Social Communities Fail & How to Avoid It
Following up on my post about Amazee’s decision to close its doors and the importance of online networking platforms by and for civil society organizations, I want to turn my attention to Joshua Paul, who has written an extraordinary laundry list … Continue reading
Open Data is data that can be freely used, reused and redistributed by anyone.
Last week I participated in the Open Data for Development Camp in Amsterdam. I joined a remarkable group of ~130 development practitioners, funders, NGO leaders, consultants and technologists all brought together by the shared vision of opening up our data … Continue reading
Posted in Mobile, Social Media
Tagged Application Programmer Interface, apps, civicrm, Drupal, IATI, kabissa, Kenya, Open Data, World Bank
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May Day reflections on Mailman, Facebook and the Future of Social Media for Activism
It’s May Day, a day of political demonstrations and celebrations organised by communists, anarchists, socialists, and activist groups. But today is not just May Day. It’s also the first day of a new month, which means that Mailman mailing list … Continue reading
Posted in Social Media
Tagged activism, civicrm, diaspora, Drupal, facebook, google groups, kabissa, mailman, ning, open source, social media, twitter
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Hello world!
Welcome to saidia.org, where I will be blogging about topics I care about including activism, Africa, innovation, open source software, social networking… I will also share the occasional photo. Enjoy! Why a new blog? Setting up this new blog is … Continue reading
Posted in Social Media
Tagged activism, africa, flickr, kabissa, open source, social media
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Camping out with the Drupallers in Seattle
The Seattle Drupal Users Group met for a Drupal Camp yesterday. It was an all day affair, with Drupal developers hiding out in one room learning about such things as theming and jviews with Robin Barre and noobs like me … Continue reading
Posted in Random
Tagged Drupal, kabissa, nonprofit technology, open source, Seattle, social media, Web Development
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