Mmm, RSS.

All I want for tagsgiving is a del.icio.us turkey.

Make your nonprofit more effective with RSS aggregation

TechSoup invited me to be part of their online event on Web 2.0 this week. Since I was on call for a discussion about social bookmarking and aggregation, I put together a short overview of how aggregation can help nonprofits, and another on how social bookmarking can...

Hats off to the BCTF

The BC Teachers’ strike hit home today, with CUPE picketing in support of the teachers even as some prospect for reconciliation has emerged. Our daughter’s daycare was closed so that staff could respect CUPE’s picket lines. But I have to admit that...

Wanted: Office & Web Manager for community-minded web company

For more details visit http://www.socialsignal.com/hiring If you’re organized, enjoy working with technology, and want your work to have social value, you could be the newest member of Social Signal (http://www.socialsignal.com). We’re a Vancouver web...

Aggregation as an endless loop

Here’s a challenge for wiser RSS-wranglers than I: as aggregation becomes a more widely used tool for populating web sites, how do we prevent RSS feeds from being cluttered with multiple identical posts? I was just looking at the Technorati tag page for net2,...

Community goes corporate

Boyd Neil of Hill & Knowlton has written a very kind and thought-provoking post in response to the launch of Social Signal. Boyd’s observation is that corporate communicators have a lot to learn from social movements and community activists about how to use...

Introducing Social Signal: collaboration for communities

I’m delighted to announce the launch of Social Signal. Social Signal’s goal is to support online communities and distributed collaboration networks — networks of communities that share content and relationships by using the latest generation of web...