Salsa Scoop

Photo of the Week

The caption reads "Spray-painted on a sidewalk in Andersonville, Chicago." and was taken from Amanjo's photostream.

We have a brand new group up on Flickr, so join us if you like.

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11:58 AM Feb 09, 2007 - 0 comments permalink

What Is Web 2.0?

A troubling question finally answered. Could the answer be in any other form but YouTube?

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11:03 AM Feb 08, 2007 - 1 comments permalink

DemocracyInAction's New User Interface Debuts

DemocracyInAction campaign managers yesterday were invited to the birth of our new user interace, Salsa, which reached its public beta phase. We'll have a great deal more to say about Salsa, whose innovations and extensibility extend very far beyond the more obvious boon of usability, for weeks and months to come. That will of course include more structured webinars and feature presentations. But for now -- for any admin-permissioned campaign managers who haven't checked it out, and for anyone in the broader world who wants to know what they're missing -- we've got baby pictures. You know how it is with proud parents. Here's what you'll see the first time you log in (and click any of these images for a larger version):

Shareholder Revolt Shakes Kintera

The Nonprofit Tech Blog unearths from Kintera's Edgar filing a letter from minority shareholders calling on the management that has led KNTA stock to the brink of de-listing to step aside. PICnet has more ... including share prices with the following disclaimer: "Warning: the graphic after the jump may not be suitable for Kintera shareholders." With GetActive absorbed by Convio and Kintera seemingly facing insolvency or irrelevancy, the shape of the early-aughts CRM terrain is being resculpted before our eyes.

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10:08 AM Feb 06, 2007 - 0 comments permalink

Goldilocks Samples E-mail Frequencies

The Progressive Exchange conversation about mailing frequency I mentioned last week got a longer writeup at Care2's Frogloop detailing the harmful effects of not communicating often enough. Too cold! This morning, e-mail shop MailChimp reports on the inverse case of a client who pressed open rates from monthly to twice-monthly to twice-weekly and saw open rates drop by three-quarters, referencing another report of a commercial mailer who did better by doing less. Too hot! Test, test, test. There's just no substitute for sampling every bowl of porridge to find out for yourself what's just right.

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09:48 AM Feb 06, 2007 - 0 comments permalink

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