Salsa Scoop

Happy Boxing Day

  

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10:21 AM Dec 26, 2006 - 0 comments permalink

What Will Tomorrow's User Interface Look Like?

 Why aren't you interacting with your browser right now like, say, Tom Cruise in Minority Report? ... maybe you will soon. ( Read more...

06:30 PM Dec 25, 2006 - 1 comments permalink

The 2006 Nonprofit Tech Prediction Scorecard

 "[August 22, 2006] might well be deemed [by Iran] an appropriate date for the apocalyptic ending of Israel and if necessary of the world." -Princeton Orientalist Bernard Lewis Not an exact science, the prophecy business. This time last year, NTEN asked would-be seers of the NPTech Black Arts School (est. 1987) to scry out 2006. How'd they do? I'll be grading them according to the following completely arbitrary criteria: +6 to +10 accurate specific-data prediction (e.g., "50% of NGOs will ..."), depending on degree of specificity and boldness of the prediction +3 to +5 specific-data prediction gets the trend right even if it gets the numbers wrong (we're encouraging risk-taking predictions here), depending on how close it comes +1 to +3 accurate "trend" prediction, depending on how accurate and important the trend, and how bold the prediction -1 to -3 wrong "trend" prediction -3 to -5 wrong specific-data prediction 0 every prediction so hedged or overcautious that it would have been virtually impossible to falsify I've taken a fairly strong line against hedges with the idea that only predictions that could actually be wrong are worth anything when they're right. However, those rulings, and my general bloviating, are obviously of no particular authority and certainly haven't been checked for internal consistency, so disputation is not only welcome, it's invited. And most of all, don't take the regime of points to indicate anything more meaningful than a diversion. Some of the most interesting predictions here are the ones that didn't quite happen. Now ... to the scoreboard.

Nick Allen, Donordigital

“Advocacy groups and groups that respond quickly to news and other events will see the greatest gains online.”
Ruling: Hedge.0
“Groups that are putting time and money into their online work will continue to see online revenue increase as a share of total revenue from individual donors.”
Ruling: Cautious but accurate.1
“Nonprofits that are active online will continue to invest in list-building, advocacy, and fundraising.”
Ruling: Hedge, tautological class.0
“Nonprofits will work harder at search engine marketing, trying to figure out how to use the social networks and blogs, and trying to figure out how to get their online folks to do things offline and vice versa.”
Ruling: Accurate, and with the possible exception of search engine marketing, major nptech trends of '06.3
TOTAL SCORE4
 

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02:48 PM Dec 24, 2006 - 5 comments permalink

Internet Heroes of 2006

 Not us. No, a deserved accolade for the Save the Internet coalition (of which we're proud to be a part) for fighting off the telecom and cable industries' attempted legislative rewrite. Well-done. Odds are, unfortunately, that Save the Internet will get a chance to defend its title in the 110th Congress. 

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01:33 PM Dec 22, 2006 - 0 comments permalink

E-xemplar: Outstanding Advocacy Websites

 As selected by Colin at e.politics. Many, though not all, are DIA users (and note our absence from the acknowledgments, confirming we didn't stuff the ballot box!). But regardless of contractual affiliation, it's a tidy little window-shop of aesthetically and strategically tight pages that activism- and advocacy-oriented groups might enjoy cribbing from. 

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09:44 AM Dec 20, 2006 - 0 comments permalink

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