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 [...]
From the category archives:
Social Media
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 [...]
Template for Building a (Community Technology) Knowledge Network with Common Online Tools
March 26, 2009
in Featured Posts, Human Potential, Social Media, Work & Career
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’ [...]
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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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 [...]
5 Steps to Social Media Engagement for Electronic Musicians
February 16, 2009
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 [...]
5 Awesome Resources for Becoming a Master Online Networker
November 9, 2008
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 [...]
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 [...]
what about the people NOT on the internet?
