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Visiting the Digital Democracy Offices in Mahattan with Keiko and Travis

September 8, 2009

Tagged as: Ddtv, NYC, Project Einstein, SHARE

On my last day in New York City, after squatting a loft with my good friend Travis, I had another chance to meet up with Keiko (from the previous Sunday’s SHARE event) and stop by the Digital Democracy offices to see where all of their action happens. It was like a meeting of [...]

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5 Tips for Being a Super Networker On LinkedIn

August 4, 2009

Tagged as: LinkedIn, professional networking, RSS, Social network service, social networks, Website, Wordpress

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LinkedIn is fun and you can learn a lot from it professionally.  There’s loads of opportunities to be helpful there – that’s the purpose of the internet, right?
Here’s 5 quick tips for using LinkedIn.  What are yours?

Import your contacts
This should be a no brainer.  Lots of online social networks have auto-importing features.  Bring [...]

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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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How Do You Foster Collaborative Networks? 1 Formula & 3 Examples

July 27, 2009
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A little while after NTC09, Beth Kanter tweeted about organizations working like a cloud.  This is a response I sent to her with some of my thoughts on how to foster a network mindset and encourage cloud-like collaboration in non-profit (or any other kinds of spaces for that matter.  What follows is a possible formula [...]

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Tips On Applying for broadbandusa.gov Stimulus Funding

July 8, 2009

Tagged as: Boston, community technology center, Peter Miller, Steve Ronan

This is a guest post from Peter Miller, a long time community technology advocate.
Steve Ronan and I, among others, were at yesterday’s broadband application training workshop in Boston. It’s always useful to see who’s attending and get info from the folks who are giving it out, including, as the presenter at several of the [...]

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Digital Democracy’s Handheld Human Rights

May 18, 2009
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UPDATE: Digital Democracy Won a $5000 FACT Social Justice Award!
This past week, I got invited to be a Project Champion for NetSquared’s N2Y4 Mobile Development Challenge. With some nice great encouragement from Beth Kanter, Amy Sample Ward and Justin Massa, I decided to become the Champion for Digital Democracy’s Handheld Human Rights.
From the project [...]

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How To Create A Mission Statement For Yourself

May 17, 2009

When I served as an AmeriCorps CTC VISTA Leader, I mailed a package to all of my VISTAs introducing myself and giving them an exercise* I found invaluable during my own Year of Service. I called it a ‘Purpose Keeping’ exercise – basically, it’s a mission statement generator that uses this formula: i.e.
[your unique [...]

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5 Articles To Help You Write A Great Artist Bio

May 13, 2009

Tagged as: Arts and Entertainment, Crafts, Musician, Professional, Visual arts

I’m an artist.  Too.  Definitely into non-profit technology work, but one of my passions is my music and getting it out into the world.  When networking and explaining what I do professionally, I’ve spent countless hours crafting and re-crafting my ‘resumé‘.  It’s always a work in progress.  Well, like my professional statement, my  artist’s bio [...]

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Help Me Attend This Year’s N-TEN Conference! (Goal Reached!)

April 9, 2009

UPDATE: I just reached my fundraising goal! BIG THANKS to Max Gail, David Krumlauf, Michael Maranda, Felicia Sullivan and all others who retweeted or shared their links to my query.  Totally looking forward to meeting y’all at N-TEN!
I’m slated to present at N-TEN this year alongside Davis Park, Angela Siefer, Cynthia Leonard and [...]

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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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3 Tips for Being a Non-profit Career Techie

March 18, 2009

Johanna Bates invited me to come and present alongside Angela Siefer, Davis Park and Cindy Leonard at the upcoming 2009 Non-Profit Technology Conference in San Francisco. Our session is called: Career NPTechies: How to graduate from the accidental techie academy and become a tech leader. We’ll be providing practical strategies for advancing your nptechie [...]

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Community Technologist For the Public Good and Creative Commons Available For Hire

February 25, 2009

BIO
I’m a community technologist. I figure out the best ways for people to use technology to engage their communities. Whether it’s through pre-existing systems and networks or custom built ones, I weave people, technology and human resources together to ensure measurable impact for your community-based online/offline initiatives.
My top three specialities:

online relationship/social network cultivation
Wordpress/Drupal design and [...]

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5 Tools To Supercharge Your Web Development

February 21, 2009

Tagged as: Firefox, tips, tools, web design, web development

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Most all web development I’ve done over the past couple years has been self-taught – online courses, tutorials, and friends have all given me invaluable knowledge to apply to my skillset. There are also a few essential tools I’ve come to love in my work and learning. Here’s five of them.

Firefox
I’m a huge [...]

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Trade Community Service For Education or Debt Relief?

January 25, 2009

Danielle Martin

After serving as an AmeriCorps VISTA member for over two years, I wonder: have any other government departments or agencies considered a “trade community service for education or debt relief” model for accomplishing the tasks it’s set up to do?  Why or why not?  If so, are there other models that exist?  Where?  How?
Also, [...]

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CTCNet Conference Report 2008: What Are the Opportunities and Challenges Facing the Field of Community Technology?

January 14, 2009

On November 13th, 2008, I had the opportunity to attend the CTCNet Conference, care of the awesome CTC VISTA Project.  Thanks CTC VISTA!  It was a rather lightly attended conference, however we – as a conference – were able to generate something which I think might be of some value to the field of CTC [...]

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Community Technology In Action

November 27, 2008

Tagged as: Aspiration, CTC VISTA, CTCNet, fab lab, Heads On Fire, Maker, Noise Bridge, open source, San Diego, San Francisco

Some great highlights for me in the past few weeks having to do with community technology.
1) The CTCNet Conference
This was great, if a bit small.  It gave me and fellow VISTAs from the CTC VISTA Project to get together and hang out.  For a few of them, it was their first conference.  The conference was [...]

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