Salsa Scoop
What Will Tomorrow's User Interface Look Like?
From "The History of the Keyboard as User Interface":The typewriter started out as a system to produce legible, professional-quality one-off output by hand (as opposed to the typeset printing press). In this sense it was interface between human and paper, and also a middleman in the recording of thoughts, symbols, and characters. Additionally its typewritten output was further an interface between people--one's words represented unambiguously to another party minutes, days, or years later. As computers have grown in popularity, the interface has become more complex. Keyboards are now an interface between analog human thinking and digital computer operation, storage, and transmission. It's still a typewriter, but it outputs for the world instead of one person, and the audience has grown to include machines.
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04:46 PM Jan 07, 2007 -
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Why Don't Your Tech Toys Play Nicely With Others?
Tate Hausman at dotOrganize directs us to the Integration Proclamation."We, the undersigned progressive leaders, have together identified technology integration as a top priority infrastructure need in 2007. We urge progressive funders, vendors and technologists to support a collaborative effort dedicated to ensuring that our tools integrate effectively, so that we can move forward with innovative, powerful platforms that will help us win."Who could possibly not want that?
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10:39 PM Jan 04, 2007 -
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What Will Tomorrow's User Interface Look Like? (DemocracyInAction Edition)
DIA users have been seeing a new login page the past couple of weeks, and may have been wondering what's up with the unseasonal theme. It's all about a new interface for the DIA campaign manager headquarters that we're calling Salsa. Earlier in December, CTO/co-founder Chris Lundberg previewed Salsa for our D.C. training attendees. This excerpt shows Chris demonstrating Salsa's customizable dashboards and editable reports, powerful new enhancements that are sure to brighten up 2007 for our users. Read more...
11:26 PM Jan 01, 2007 -
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Fundraising: Did You Get Your Nut?
We'll be delving into a lot more figures -- fundraising and otherwise -- from the DIA network in the weeks ahead, but a champagne (okay, okay ... vodka) hangover on New Year's allows time enough for a quick follow-up to last week's suggested push for donations: The last five days of 2006 were the five givingest days in DIA's history.
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03:04 PM Jan 01, 2007 -
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Fundraising: Ask Now!
Someone said to me yesterday that they'd noticed Amnesty International put out a fundraising pitch in this idle week between Christmas and New Year's, and thought they were nuts. No way.
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Katya Andresen this week urged people to ask for money before the end of the year with a dramatic chart of Network for Good's daily contributions for the month of December. For a fundraiser, the right time to give is always "now" ... but for donors with an eye on their IRS returns, it's 81 hours and counting to apply their gifts as '06 tax deductions.
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03:26 PM Dec 28, 2006 -
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