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How to Write Rich Posts for Your Blog Without Logging In To It

August 3, 2009

I’m a big fan of gMail.   I’m also a big ‘plug in’ fan.  Whether it’s for Ableton, Wordpress, or Photoshop (some of my creative tools of choice), I love flexibility and keen ways to manipulate ‘things I make with computers’.
Here’s 2 Firefox addons I use in conjunction with Posterous and gMail to write rich posts [...]

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Have You Applied a Creative Commons License to Your Work?

March 31, 2009

Image by foko_madagascar via Flickr

Have you considered applying a Creative Commons license to your work? Are you familiar with what one is? From the Creative Commons website:
“Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. you can [...]

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Template for Building a (Community Technology) Knowledge Network with Common Online Tools

March 26, 2009

I’m a community technology activist and believe that access to knowledge is a key factor in reaching our potential as humans.  Lately, I’ve had a few ideas running around in my head.

bridging the work of  old school activists (knowledge, history, experience) with new school activists (enthusiasm, technical aptitude, hyperconnected online and off)
listservs as ’spinal cords’ [...]

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Fake Album Art Created By My Friends

March 5, 2009

I recently took part in the ‘Fake Album Art Contest’ making the rounds on Facebook.  After getting tagged in a note, I created one myself and then tagged my friends.  Included above are the results from my network of friends*.
The rules for playing are pretty easy:
Rules For Playing
1 – BAND NAME Go to “wikipedia.” Hit [...]

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How to Post a Note and Tag Your Friends in Facebook

February 27, 2009

Tagged as: Facebook, online communities, Relationships, Social network, Twitter

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This is a quick ‘how to’ I wrote for a friend who, in using Facebook, wanted to learn how to write a Note and Tag her friends in it.  Since I imagine that there are other folks interested in learning how to do this, I thought I’d throw together this quick [...]

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5 Steps to Social Media Engagement for Electronic Musicians

February 16, 2009

Tagged as: djing, Electronic Music, electronic music tips, Facebook, Google Reader, MySpace, RSS, Social Media, Twitter

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During my work with NAMAC, I created a ‘Social Media Engagement Cycle’ template in order to communicate with my supervisors just how we might dive in to using blogs, RSS, Facebook and Twitter to engage with our members.  Inspired by Beth Kanter’s post ‘How Much time Does it Take to Do Social Media‘ I thought [...]

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5 Awesome Resources for Becoming a Master Online Networker

November 9, 2008

Tagged as: Brand, Business, LinkedIn, Marketing and Advertising, Online and offline, online communities, professional development, professional networking, Social Media, Social network, social networks

The great thing about the internet is that it allows those with access* connection to people and ideas in a lot of easy, organic ways.  However, while the tools to do this are always changing and evolving I’d argue that the techniques are timeless and work online as well as offline.  Regardless of technology, you [...]

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Be the Media Project: The Social Media Empowerment Guide for Nonprofits

July 1, 2008

Tagged as: awesome, nptech, online communities, Social Media, wiki

Yesterday, I began participating in the Be the Media Project: The Social Media Empowerment guide for Nonprofits. It’s a collaborative project curated by N-TEN with wiki curation by Beth Kanter. Here’s the blurb from the site:
The Be The Media Project is a community of people from nonprofits who are interested in learning and [...]

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web 2.0

December 27, 2007

Tagged as: access, digital divide, online communities, web 2.0

what about the people NOT on the internet?

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