http://www.alexandrasamuel.com Alex, everywhere. Fri, 01 Aug 2008 07:28:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm delighted to be writing this post as a OneWebDay ambassador. OneWebDay, which takes place on September 22, is a global day to celebrate the Internet, and the values that make the Internet such an essential part of our society. This year OneWebDay is paying particular tribute to the Internet's ... http://www.alexandrasamuel.com/20080801/turned-off-by-bad-news-try-our-special-olympic-friendly-internet Today marks the eighth anniversary of our other founding partnership: our marriage. July 29th, 2000 was the Big Day not only for the two of us, but also for Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston. We know that popular opinion lays the blame for the Brad-Jen breakup at the feet of ... http://www.alexandrasamuel.com/20080728/halfway-to-hex-anniversary-gifts-for-geeks Click here to read part 1, an introduction to digital mind mapping. MindMeister works a lot like MindManager, with the features I've come to see as essential for a good mind-mapping experience:rapid creation of new nodes and node "children". (Hitting return creates a node; tab creates children of the node ... http://www.alexandrasamuel.com/20080724/online-collaboration-for-your-right-brain-part-2-mindmeister-at-social-signal Most online collaboration tools engage your left brain: that part of you that likes structure and organization, and supports linear, sequential thinking. Think of Basecamp, with its careful system of tasks and milestones. Or Google spreadsheets (I have dozens of them!) organizing everything from budgets to menus in neat, orderly ... http://www.alexandrasamuel.com/20080723/online-collaboration-for-your-right-brain-part-1-an-introduction-to-digital-mind-mapping Technology and copyrightTechnology is obsoleting copyright law. Encourages people to use Creative Commons for all their work.» bonus tip: When publishing with Creative Commons, use the attribution noncommercial license, which means that any non-profit can republish your content, as long as they credit you as the original author (or photographer). ... http://www.alexandrasamuel.com/20080622/kris-krug-on-web-20-at-stt So far no huge policy differences except on the idea of a “speculator tax” (Gregor: pro. Al: con. Raymond: ?)A great member question: your supporters can select a 2nd choice on the preferential ballot. What can you tell them about your two opponents’ qualities and contributions to guide their decision? ... http://www.alexandrasamuel.com/20080605/vision-vancouver-debate You've spent tens of thousands of dollars creating an online community site. Your organization has a big vision for how this new community can engage your customers, members or the public. Your developers, communications team and fundraisers are all bleary-eyed from the effort and dollars it's taken to get you ... http://www.alexandrasamuel.com/20080602/bringing-your-online-community-to-life Today marks the release of Sex and the City: The Movie. With the news that SATCTM tix are selling out, your friends at Social Signal (part of the original Change Everything team) want to save you from the nightmare of a Sex-less weekend. We've got twenty tickets to the 8 ... http://www.alexandrasamuel.com/20080530/free-tix-to-sex-and-the-cityand-some-help-for-sex-trade-workers Today marks the release of Sex and the City: The Movie. With the news that SATCTM tix are selling out, your friends at Social Signal want to save you from the nightmare of a Sex-less weekend.  We've got twenty tickets to the 8 pm show on Saturday, May 31st, at ... http://www.alexandrasamuel.com/20080530/see-sex-and-the-city-with-your-friends-at-social-signal The Elders' Every Human Has Rights campaign has just relaunched its site (on Drupal!) We've been privileged to work with the EHHR team in telling the story of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights online. For a great snapshot of why the UDHR matters, check out the great PSA featuring ... http://www.alexandrasamuel.com/20080530/mary-robinson-on-media-freedom We knew this day would come. Lice...yuck! As we struggle to contain the lice outbreak on our kids' heads, we share the following resources and insights: Think carefully before using pharmaceutical lice remedies like Nix. They are based on a natural derivative from chyrsanthemums, but that doesn't mean they are necessarily safe ... http://www.alexandrasamuel.com/20080429/fighting-lice-in-vancouver For the past two months, I've been part of the digital strategy team for The Elders, an extraordinary NGO that was launched last year by Richard Branson and Peter Gabriel. The vision is to convene a council of elders for the global village; the founding elders include Desmond Tutu, ... http://www.alexandrasamuel.com/20080423/every-human-has-rights-makes-human-rights-personal This blog post is part of our series on Social Media for Social Enterprise: How non-profits can earn revenue with Web 2.0. What bake sales once were to PTAs, online storefronts are to today's non-profits. We're used to thinking about participants in non-profit web sites as members or supporters, people ... http://www.alexandrasamuel.com/20080422/how-your-non-profit-can-earn-revenue-with-web-20-part-5-product-sales I know, it sounds like the beginning of a bad joke. (Or a great cartoon! Rob, care to give it a try?) But believe me, if you asked them to write a document, the mathematician and the librarian would come out ahead. Why? Brackets.You know, like (2+2) X (18/3)Or like ... http://www.alexandrasamuel.com/20080401/a-mathemetician-a-librarian-and-a-web-strategist-walk-into-a-bar Welcome to the latest installment in our series on revenue sources for non-profit social media projects. Today, I'm looking at what many non-profits first think of (and often, recoil at) when it comes to earning money online: advertising. If your site attracts a lot of visitors -- or even a ... http://www.alexandrasamuel.com/20080401/how-your-non-profit-can-earn-revenue-with-web-20-part-3-earning-revenue-with-advertising