Salsa Scoop

Tuesday Tips: Mistyped Email Addresses

 Training -- though sometimes stressful -- is one of the best parts of my job, largely because of what I get to learn from people with completely different outlooks who pose incisive questions I would never think to ask. On the orientation-to-Salsa webinars we've been running for current clients, I got a great question the other day about running reports to help campaign managers identify possible mistyped e-mail addresses so that they could manually correct them in the headquarters while the relationship was still retrievable. A perfect occasion for both our custom report builder and a forehead-smacking "why didn't I think of that?"  

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02:08 PM Mar 27, 2007 - 57 comments permalink

Remixable DIA Blog

 I don't know what to say to this ... UFO Breakfast Recipients, one of my favorite blogs (see it hanging in our blogroll under "Subversives"), baked me a digital cake for my recent two-year anniversary: Musicians and programmers who play for the good guys, remixed by Scruggs into an original video (.ogg | .mov) version of my Two Years in Nptech post. Dang, that's sweet. And extra thanks for the acquaintance of the new-to-me Brad Sucks. 

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10:35 AM Mar 27, 2007 - 0 comments permalink

Copious Salsa Documentation

 A great software tool deserves great (and a great deal of) documentation. Simultaneous with polishing the code and building new features, we've been hard at work trying to take our documentation to a different place. We've been keenly aware for a while that we've left something to be desired in that department. Believe me, we're all tired ourselves of having to say that we're working on it. But we really have been. And finally, we have a comprehensive FDA-approved* label identifying every ingredient. Click here for your Salsa documentation. (It's permanently linked from our Training & Support section.) Now what you gets here at the moment is three different things, although like all great art it will over time grow and evolve new meanings, fresh interpretations, unexpected interlocutors. (And like the Capitoline Wolf, someone will come along later and slap some new content into it.)  

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01:01 PM Mar 26, 2007 - 4 comments permalink

NetSquared Technology Innovation Fund Deadline Approaching

 Got a tech-for-social-good project? It probably deserves to share a slice of a $100,000 pie, courtesy of TechSoup's NetSquared.

The NetSquared Featured Projects is a global competition that is open to both nonprofit and private sector submissions. We seek nominations of projects that can demonstrate the following attributes (though we understand that different projects will have different emphases and strengths):  

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12:03 PM Mar 23, 2007 - 12 comments permalink

Use Tagging and Widgets to Share Jobs in the DemocracyInAction Community

 We're regularly asked by our user organizations about sharing job opportunities with one another. DIA isn't a job board and we don't aspire to be Monster.com or Democratic GAIN. On the other hand, it's a fairly natural fit -- a community of organizations with some similarity in outlook and needs, sometimes including specific familiarity with our platform. So we don't want to maintain an employment database or add unfunded mandates to our shop, but it makes sense to let people share. What to do? A couple of weeks ago, we asked for some input on the DIA Support listserv. You're looking at the result. The item at right is a simple web widget to which anyone can publish a job in the DIA community and which anyone can use to keep up with those jobs. I've seeded it with a few of DIA's own jobs,* and a couple others among our user groups that I happened to know about. It's not meant to be comprehensive -- the point, in fact, is that it's meant to be community-generated. Anyone can add to it. This is a bit of an experiment for us: we'll have to see if people actually choose to use it. But experimenting with widgets is darn cheap to do.

For Employers

To add a job, just tag any job posting page anywhere with a del.icio.us or Ma.gnolia social bookmarking account using the tag "diajob" (without the quotes). That's it! It may take a couple hours to hit the stream. You can remove postings by deleting your bookmark or by removing the tag from your bookmark. We're asking people to observe the convention of titling these posts:
Job Title, Organization (Location)
 

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10:37 AM Mar 22, 2007 - 208 comments permalink

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