Creech's blog

Marketplaces and Web 2.0

Posted Sat, 06/02/2007 - 19:00 by Creech

Social networking sites are gathering places.  When they are successful, they build community.  That community can interact through chat, forums, blogs and comments, virtual environments, text messaging and wikis. 

Just Updated Permissions

Posted Fri, 05/25/2007 - 21:56 by Creech

> Docent_Alturas
> Bluewave
> rikomatic
> msirkin
> Xin
> janimyriam
> tuesday
> Johnny_Austin
> bfelice
> mrmaroney
> ange
> Susan_Tenby
> Glitteractica_Cookie
> kanter
> Creech

I've updated all of these accounts to be able to post comments--some already could. If you want to be able to blog or post comments let me know.

NEA Funding Increase Approved by House Committee

Posted Thu, 05/24/2007 - 03:22 by Creech

Today, the House Interior Appropriations Subcommittee, approved a budget for the National Endowment for the Arts of $160 million. This is a proposed increase of $35 million over funding in FY 2007. This represents the largest increase in many years.

This is great news for Arts nonprofits in the United States.

The American Arts Alliance has posted a summary and a way to say "Thank-you" the committee members.

Eventful

Posted Wed, 05/16/2007 - 03:28 by Creech

Eventful is a social networking site that allows loose or formal groups to create gatherings. Groups can be based on physical location, interests, subjects, and events.

You can create groups or join groups that you have interest in. You can search through the many groups that are available through a system based search engine.

Skype and Nonprofits

Posted Wed, 05/09/2007 - 04:00 by Creech

Skype is a terrific tool.  It is a software based phone that allows VoIP calls anywhere in the world.  If you place a Skype call between computers--your computer and the computer of the person on the other end--the call is free.   It costs pennies a minute to call to a cell phone or land line.
Skype will allow you to do video calling, share documents, and IM others on the Skype network.

Tagging Tutorials, Part IV, REVVER

Posted Tue, 05/08/2007 - 02:58 by Creech

REVVER is a video site similar to YouTube.  The company is quite a bit smaller than YouTube.  The number of videos on REVVER is much smaller than on YouTube.  While it is a little guy, REVVER is my preferred video site. 
Why? 
The small guy is more likely to try and work with content providers.  You can post messages to the forum on REVVER and get a response very quickly.  The REVVER staff are quite likely to email you directly if you have something you need/want to have resolved.

Tagging Tutorials, Part III YouTube

Posted Sat, 05/05/2007 - 16:56 by Creech

If you don't know about YouTube you must be living a sheltered life... YouTube is a video sharing site that has successfully captured a huge portion of the Internet video market. It has come under some criticism for allowing large quantities of copyright material to be pirated and uploaded onto the site. None the less, YouTube is a powerful tool that can be used by the nonprofit community to raise awareness and market.

What do I need to post and tag on YouTube?

Qumana

Posted Fri, 05/04/2007 - 01:55 by Creech

I was asked by a colleague if I would write a "How To" on Qumana.  I've been using Qumana now for several months to post to three different blogs--dogstar.org, imagespace.blogspot.com, and secondlife.techsoup.org.
What is Qumana?

Tagging Tutorials--Part II Blogs

Posted Wed, 05/02/2007 - 23:56 by Creech

Tagging on blogs can have multiple benefits.  The first is, if your blog is searchable, the tags prove to be a way for readers to find like content.  For example, on this blog (built on Drupal), if you click on a single tag it will return all results that match that tag.

Tagging Tutorials -- Part I Flickr

Posted Tue, 05/01/2007 - 01:42 by Creech

My next few posts will deal with tagging on different social networking sites. This first tutorial will focus on Flickr.

In all the social networking sites that you might post to, there is something in common--tagging. Simply put, tags are little pieces of data that let people know what your information--whether it be an image, a video, or text--is about. For example, you could tag a picture of the castle in Warwick, UK on Flickr with "Warwick castle UK England" and when someone searched on these criteria would have the following results returned:

 

Many thanks to Brownrice Internet for hosting the NPSL site.

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