I just found out via ArborUpdate that Pfizer is leaving Ann Arbor for good, leaving behind a 117 acre facility and taking 2700 well-paying jobs out of the local economy. As the discussion on AU points out, Pfizer was a huge taxpayer and contributor to local non-profits. This is a hefty blow to […]
John Jantsch from Duct Tape Marketing has vowed to stop using the word “blog” and start advocating an online strategy that:
Will bring you a substantial increase in search engine traffic.
Will greatly enhance your ability to communicate with your market.
Will increase your odds of being interviewed by the media.
Will allow you (or someone you designate) to […]
Recently coworker Noel and I were invited over to the lower Manhattan digs of PubSub. They’ve built a pretty sweet system for following topics of interest as they are mentioned on the web. Rather than trying to be Google or Technorati (indexing and storing the entire web/blogosphere), they’re taking a differnet approach to […]
A few months ago, I had an exchange with Rick Cowan of the Organizers’ Collaborative and some other folks on a national non-profit technology email list list (I think NOSI). The discussion was about using screen-sharing services like WebEx for training and meeting over the ‘net. Concurrent with this discussion was a discussion […]
At SXSW I ran in to a guy I used to work with at the Daily (Forgot his name! He has red hair and glasses; former photog.) who was working on Fundable, which is a web based tool for organizing people to pay for something. I can see this being useful telethon-style fundraising on […]
Some nonprofits offer localized versions of the SocialExplorer tool I linked to earlier. The New York PIRG offers CMAP and UCLA offers Neighborhood Knowledge California. NKCA, in particular, has a really nice interface.
The O’Reilly Radar links to the Social Explorer site, which offers an easy to use, web-based GIS (”mapping”) application for exploring US census data. Having briefly played with ArcGIS, a fancy and expensive GIS package, Social Explorer is a very exciting tool. It’s much more limited, but also much easier to use than […]
If I wasn’t already so conferenced-out, I’d really like to attend the Grassroots Use of Technology Conference in Boston, if only to spend more time jawing with the likes of Marty Kearns, Gregory Heller and other interesting folks (and people like them) I met at the NTC. I’m increasingly interested this grassrootsy-activisty-not-for-profity space.
It’s too bad […]
I recently attended (nearly back-to-back) both the SXSW Interactive and NTEN Nonprofit Technology conferences. Both conferences self-select different, but equally interesting groups of attendees. Strangely, the NTC trade show (they call it a “Science Fair,” which is a cheesy label, demonstrating some degree of denial by conference organizers, IMO) seemed more much […]
