Publications
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
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The Harvard Business Review
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OneZero
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 despite the...
Everything I needed to know about community engagement I learned from Flying Meat
Flying Meat is the software company behind VooDooPad, my latest favorite application ever. VooDooPad is one of those transformational technologies that do one small but crucial thing so incredibly way that they change the whole way you work. In this case, what...
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 company that...
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, where a...
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 the...
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 tools. This...
Latest project: TechSoup/CompuMentor
My latest venture in the fabulous world of Web 2.0 is helping CompuMentor -- home of TechSoup -- set up an online community in conjunction with an event they are organizing for next spring. Job one? Use this post to check whether the aggregation is working.
JSTOR DAILY
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 despite the...
Everything I needed to know about community engagement I learned from Flying Meat
Flying Meat is the software company behind VooDooPad, my latest favorite application ever. VooDooPad is one of those transformational technologies that do one small but crucial thing so incredibly way that they change the whole way you work. In this case, what...
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 company that...
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, where a...
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 the...
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 tools. This...
Latest project: TechSoup/CompuMentor
My latest venture in the fabulous world of Web 2.0 is helping CompuMentor -- home of TechSoup -- set up an online community in conjunction with an event they are organizing for next spring. Job one? Use this post to check whether the aggregation is working.
THE VERGE
Facebooking the kids: 12 Dos & Don’ts
Facebook can be a great way to share your family news with a small circle of friends — if you’re smart about using privacy settings. This post rounds up the recommendations from my series on Facebooking the kids.
How to configure your Facebook privacy settings to protect your kids
3 steps to creating a Facebook friend list for your kid-related content
My Facebook profile, now with extra hotness
If you haven't visited me on Facebook recently, you may not have seen my new super-awesome profile. It looks like this: And while you're visiting me, I hope you'll check out my new Facebook page, which I set up to share my writing and work. (I use my profile for...