Salsa Scoop

Kickin it with the Bioneers.

I've been hanging out at the Bioneers Conference in San Rafael this weekend. The peak moment for me was Friday, when Van Jones of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights kicked off the conference with a moral challenge to the environmental movement to use its growing power to dismantle structures of racial and economic injustice while greening the nation. If you're not familiar with the work of the Ella Baker Center and their work to provide youth of color with skill sets in green technology as a pathway out of poverty, you should check out their site. Van Jones is being honored next Thursday night by the US Green Building Council at their Super Heroes Gala (click here to sign up!) for his work on so-called "Green-Collar Jobs."

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08:40 PM Oct 20, 2007 - 0 comments permalink

The Weekend Hero

It's always a bugger trying to pick out a Halloween costume.

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07:27 PM Oct 20, 2007 - 4 comments permalink

Salsa Status Report VIII

This week's updates

BUG: fixed confusing UI for default request/required items in workflows (minor)
BUG: fixed display of foreign characters in email blast text preview (minor)
BUG: fixed foreign characters getting mangled in supporter import (minor)
BUG: fixed incorrect date formatting when exporting query results (minor)
BUG: fixed issue with template previewing / thumbnails (minor)
BUG: fixed tagging for questionnaires (minor)
BUG: the query builder now supports querying multiple email blasts at the same time (medium)

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12:00 AM Oct 19, 2007 - 116 comments permalink

Basic HTML E-mailing: Setting up a Template

As we've mentioned before getting email design from the interface to your member's inbox is not as simple as one might hope. Luckily, a well designed email template can not only help you deliver an email that more closely resembles your vision, but can also lead to consistency between emails and speed up the time each blast takes to create.

Use a Template

The over whelming majority of users need to use an email template. We want to use a template to 'protect' some parts of our HTML for both consistency and to ensure critical parts of the HTML are not altered during the creation of a blast.

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05:19 PM Oct 17, 2007 - 0 comments permalink

The Great Awakening

'My son,' the father said, 'you are always with me, and everything I have is yours. But we had to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.' -Luke 15:31-32

Above: an image capture of a third-party application that increments a counter based on data pulled from our API

Mashing up with outside applications

custom data sets

Google maps

Radically customizing pages

reworking DIA-hosted pages

Content management integration

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02:45 PM Oct 17, 2007 - 7 comments permalink

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