Posted Fri, 07/27/2007 - 01:52 by Creech
Well, a group of us met today by phone call. There are a few things I took away from today's meeting.
1) Please, if you want to blog here (even if you have your own blog and want to cross post from there), let me know. Email matthew at dogstar.org and let me know your NPSL username and who you are in the nonprofit commons. I'll set you up. The more bloggers we have, the better.
Posted Tue, 07/24/2007 - 01:07 by Creech
What a curious thing the Democratic debate this afternoon ended up being. I was unable to watch them live, needing to be at work to earn a living, but found out via Len Edgerly on Twitter that baratunde was sending out live tweets covering the goings on. So, when I got home this evening, I followed the Twitter streams of baratunde and Len to get a sense of what happened.
Posted Tue, 07/17/2007 - 02:20 by Creech
Skitch is a cool application that can work online with mySkitch--an online image sharing system. You need an invite to get a beta copy of Skitch.
Posted Sun, 07/15/2007 - 06:07 by Creech
Meebo is a cool online application that allows you to log onto instant messaging without an instant messaging client on your computer. Meebo currently supports AOL, Yahoo, Google Talk, ICQ, and Jabber.
Posted Thu, 07/12/2007 - 01:16 by Creech
I'm an instant messaging junkie. Mostly I use the IM in Skype but I can also be seen on the AOL IM platform through iChat. I know lots of folks that also use GoogleTalk, Yahoo's IM offering, and so forth. This means, in general, these folks will have many different IM clients open.
Adium (sound like a new cholesterol drug) allows you to access many services in a single client rather than having multiple windows open.
Posted Tue, 07/10/2007 - 01:25 by Creech
Due to significant downtime on NPSL's old host provider, the Management team made the decision to move NPSL to Brownrice Internet, a hoster that I am very familiar with. Brownrice has agreed to host NPSL for free. If you want to let them know that you appreciate the donation, let me know and I'll pass your comments onto the President of the company.
Please let me know if you see any strangeness on the site. Migrations rarely go perfectly (check out this COMMENT for an example) so help me out and send me a note if you see something broken.
Best,
Creech Antwerp/Matthew Saunders
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Posted Tue, 06/19/2007 - 05:04 by Creech
Plaxo is a social networking tool that allows you to dynamically update your address book. I've written a couple of posts on my personal blog about how the tool can be used.
Posted Sat, 06/16/2007 - 02:07 by Creech
In my intersection with other nonprofits through the NPSL group and on the TechSoup site I am expanding my focus to deal with emerging technologies in general and how they can be utilized by the nonprofit community as a whole. My background is in the arts, so expect to continue to see some bias for that industry but my personal experiences over the last two years have shifted my sense of self toward social justice (although being Canadian probably has something to do with that too.)
Posted Fri, 06/08/2007 - 00:37 by Creech
I was working on trying to furnish the WESTAF office last night. I looked into the "object" containing all manner of lamps and lights and quite by accident clothed myself with a myriad of lighting objects in one fell swoop. This was the outcome...
Posted Thu, 06/07/2007 - 01:53 by Creech
Aggregators are tools that allow you to access the RSS (Real Simple Syndication) feeds from different sites. You can tell that a site has a feed if you see this icon on the page. Aggregators allow you to mix the feeds from many sites into a single place. In other words, no need to surf when an aggregator can deliver the content to your desktop.
Some of my favourite aggregators include:
