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Online Community session at NetSquared North

Feb 10, 2006 |

Our first session at NetSquared North today covers online community engagement. We've started by sharing stories about online community projects we're working on now, including: Your Kamloops (Arjun Singh) site, blog, and mailing list largely one-way tools: typepad...

Live blogging today from NetSquared North

Feb 10, 2006 |

We’re live blogging today from NetSquared North, a gathering of folks interested in non-profit technology issues who are in town for the Northern Voice blogging conference. Check out the NetSquared North wiki here.

Our opening session decided on four topical discussions for the day:

10:10-11:20: Online community-building: blogging and beyond
1:00-2:05: Top 5 non-profit technology needs and the best practices for addressing them: non-profit capacity-building

How much is that Nazi in the window?

Dec 4, 2005 |

Yesterday we began our "seasonal shopping" -- the process of buying Chanukah gifts for our daughter, and Christmas gifts for her cousins. As we left Vancouver's fabulous Kidsbooks with our two-year-old and her new dreidel book, we wandered to the windows next door....

10 ways to keep online dialogue on topic

Nov 18, 2005 |

I've spent the past two days at a Ohio State for a conference on Building Democracy Through Online Citizen Deliberation, which has been a terrifically productive gathering. One session consisted of an interesting conversation about how to structure online deliberation...

Blogs and Dogs

Nov 7, 2005 |

For those of you who suspect that I'm having too much fun at work these days, let me note my upcoming participation in the Banff Centre's Blogs and Dogs workshop. This is a great chance to learn the basics of blogging, or push your blogging skills in new directions....

Mmm, RSS.

Oct 28, 2005 |

All I want for tagsgiving is a del.icio.us turkey.

Make your nonprofit more effective with RSS aggregation

Oct 28, 2005 |

TechSoup invited me to be part of their online event on Web 2.0 this week. Since I was on call for a discussion about social bookmarking and aggregation, I put together a short overview of how aggregation can help nonprofits, and another on how social bookmarking can...

Hats off to the BCTF

Oct 21, 2005 |

The BC Teachers' strike hit home today, with CUPE picketing in support of the teachers even as some prospect for reconciliation has emerged. Our daughter's daycare was closed so that staff could respect CUPE's picket lines. But I have to admit that despite the...