-
Recent Posts
- Allen! Allen! Allen! Steve!
- Trajectory of a good story: layup > situation > means > flaws > triumph!
- Come and get it! My (unofficial) OfficeXpats Events Calendar is up on Google
- Learn the countries of the world in song with ANIMANIACS
- Kegerator hack: 4 tap kegerator w/ kegs and gas – $400 (Maple Leaf, Seattle, WA)
Recent Comments
- Grażyna Majer on Allen! Allen! Allen! Steve!
- tobiaseigen on Allen! Allen! Allen! Steve!
- Linked in ex user on Preventing LinkedIn spam – how it works and tips for the spammer *and* the spammee!
- 9 tech documentaries to geek out to in the next few months | memeburn on If you’re not paying for it, you’re not the customer; you are the product being sold.
- Rachel on Did you know? Technically, LinkedIn invites are personal email from your contacts, not LinkedIn spam
Tags
activism africa amazee Bainbridge Island Berlin blogging civicrm Civil Society conference Create Peace creative commons crowdsourcing democracy Drupal email environment facebook flickr fundraising globalgiving Global Voices Google HIV/AIDS ICT4D Joomla kabissa Kenya linkedin Loband Media Middle East Nigeria nonprofit technology OfficeXpats OLPC open source photos Politics Seattle social media spam TrustCloud twitter Web Development WordPress-
-
Tag Archives: nonprofit technology
Today’s discovery: five.sentenc.es – treat all email responses like SMS text messages
I received an email today with a link to http://five.sentenc.es in the footer. Not only do I love this idea of sending and receiving shorter emails, but I love how people are inspired to set up initiatives like this. So … Continue reading
Watching the Bottom of the Global Open Challenge Leaderboard
The Global Open Challenge is GlobalGiving’s powerful idea of using the “wisdom of the crowd” to identify organizations worthy of being part of the GlobalGiving charitable giving community. Organizations that pass a rigorous due diligence process are given an opportunity … Continue reading
Posted in Social Media
Tagged crowdsourcing, facebook, fundraising, globalgiving, nonprofit technology, social media, twitter
4 Comments
Civil Society, Open Source and Me: what is your favorite book?
If there is one book that needs to be in the local public library on the importance of Open Source in Civil Society, what would it be? Add your comments to this post. I am open to all suggestions – … Continue reading
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
4 Comments
Negroponte’s “$100 laptop” plans: yeah, right!
By way of the very useful and positively glowing with goodwill and open source optimism mailing list Bytes for All, I learned about India’s ambitious $10 laptop answer to Negroponte’s $100 laptop. The Times of India article reads like The … Continue reading
Near a radio? Join talk about Nigeria election in BBC World Have Your Say
I got an email this morning from BBC inviting me to join their talk on today’s Have Your Say program is the Nigerian election. It’s on at 6pm GMT today, Monday April 23. They appear to be interested in hearing … Continue reading
Are you in Nigeria? Text your election observations to 0808-4032739
According to this Texts monitor Nigerian elections article on the BBC News website, Anyone trying to rig or tamper with Saturday’s presidential elections in Nigeria could be caught out by a team of volunteers armed with mobile phones. The number … Continue reading
Casting a ballot for Africa at netsquared.org
I was psyched to see my Casting a ballot for Africa blog post on the frontpage of the Netsquared.org website, and various blog postings about the Kabissa 2.0 proposal at WhiteAfrican.com, globalvoicesonline.org, and Meandering Passage – wow, thanks everyone for … Continue reading
greenlightnigeria.org – it begins!
In a comment to my Blueprint for a Nigerian Civil Society Election Blog, Tim Concannon announced greenlightnigeria.org – I’m glad to see this development and hope it catches on. Congratulations SDN and IDASA! Please help spread the word and make … Continue reading
Audioblogging by Mobile Phone? Round 2: Nigerian Election Blog Blueprint
When considering a Civil Society Election Blog for Nigeria, we realized fairly quickly that it has to be possible for people to contribute to it via their mobile phones. Post via the web and e-mail, yes, but also somehow via … Continue reading
Tagged africa, blogging, ICT4D, Loband, Media, Nigeria, nonprofit technology, Politics, social media, WordPress
7 Comments
