Salsa Scoop
NTEN Seeking Online Success Stories for ABC News Piece
Copied verbatim from a message NTEN E.D. Katrin Verclas posted to a listserv, and which has as I've been typing this become a blog entry of its own ... a very short-notice opportunity to share your online success story with the world.I am seeking some very good stories from YOU for a piece on ABC News/vcast that will feature "technology for good' or how nonprofits are using tech to make the world a better place. Here is what I am looking for: Nonprofits are getting more and more savvy in using tech - and deploying techies who are doing good in the world. In April, more than 1,000 of these "Techies for Good" are coming to Washington DC.Read more...
10:37 AM Mar 13, 2007 - 18 comments permalink
And Now, We Break for the Pledge Drive
We want to apologize in advance for those among our readers who are distinctly uninterested in our new user interface. This blog has a few different audiences, partially overlapping but still well short of synoptic. (And judging by our Feedburner stats, their names are: mom, and dad.) Some are DIA users; many others are not. Some are in the nonprofit tech space; others only touch it incidentally, and perhaps less from desire than from compulsion. Some are organizers, fundraisers or advocates who only care about technology's ability to extend their work; others are geeks who'd just as soon see code change the world.Read more...
11:06 PM Mar 12, 2007 - 29 comments permalink
DIA Salsa Spotlight of the Day: Queries
This is the week. It's sure to be less fun than the release party this Thursday night (you're coming, no?), but the blog pays its own form of remixable tribute all this week with a countdown of the top enhancements you'll find when you log in to Salsa. Sure, the party has an open bar. But does it have an RSS feed?
The birth of the condiment:
For Salsa, at one point called Fuse, and at another called Joan Rivers and Six Million Dollar Man (granted, only I called it that) we set forth some very basic, high-level goals.make the system easier to use make the system more stable make the system more flexible
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05:53 PM Mar 12, 2007 - 51 comments permalink
Classic Justifications for Spamming
The New Organizing Institute's three-day boot camp wrapped with a lighthearted session from Zack Exley which in my Day 3 notes is distinguished by nothing but the text of his single powerpoint slide. Zack ran a little confessional, goading attendees into owning up to e-activism sins both venal and cardinal, which elicited this priceless nugget whose author and origin we'll leave safely obscure...Read more...
09:27 AM Mar 10, 2007 - 88 comments permalink
Session Notes: New Organizing Institute, Day 3
The sequel to Day One of these notes from the New Organizing Institute, with Day Two spent ill abed.
Greg Green, Blue State Digital
Difference between CRM & CMS Use CRM to track and contact campaign's supporter Use CMS to edit web site w/o a lot of updating Handy for 1. when there are a lot of people on the campaign updating things 2. when there are people in different locations who all need to access/update data 3. essential if there's a pretty large database of people you're contacting regularly and trying to track (e.g., you want to make sure you don't ask for money the day after they gave...)Read more...
04:09 PM Mar 09, 2007 - 165 comments permalink
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