Communicating with the Web

10 Free powerful Content Management Systems

2008-11-23T08:37:00.000-08:00

10 Free powerful Content Management Systems: "10 Free powerful Content Management Systems

from Antonio Lupetti's blog Woork via awsamuel in twitter post

Content Management Systems help web developers create, manage and publish quickly blogs, portal or social collaboration websites. Probably you know the most popular CMS tools such as WordPress, Movable Type, Joomla!, Mambo but there are a lot of similar CMS tools for all needs.

This list suggest you some interesting alternatives you have to try. Please add a link if you want to suggest a CMS tool not included in this list."

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Hashcash FAQ

2008-08-26T08:47:00.000-07:00

Hashcash FAQ

Great article!

2008-08-04T22:37:00.001-07:00

@2 back from Dark Knight eahh! Okay but I could have waited until the rental

2008-08-04T10:48:00.001-07:00

Just up and trying ping some more

New article: Better Organization through Document Management Systems

2008-06-07T10:43:00.000-07:00

from Idealware by laura
We've just put up another great article by Peter Campbell, this one summarizing the world of Document Management Systems: Better Organization through Document Management Systems. If you're looking to improve your organization's ability to find, version, and effectively use documents, a DMS can help you out - but too few organizations know anything at all about this area. I know I learned a lot from the article!

How to Test Your Site on Different Screen Resolutions, Browsers and Systems

2008-02-17T09:47:00.000-08:00

I've seen services like this before; this one looks pretty good.

"How to Test Your Site on Different Screen Resolutions, Browsers and Systems

The cruel fact of website customization, is that websites can look very different to visitors depending on settings they are using.

Everyone’s who’s ever customized their blog theme would know the sinking feeling of viewing it through another browser and realizing that the layout doesn’t really look quite right."

>>full article

the fundit - Blog Archive

2007-11-23T16:26:00.000-08:00

Read the following post from "the fundit" and then ask yourself "Who has access to my website and email; and do I know what to do if something goes awry with my relationship with them?"

"LOLcats and fundraising: two worlds collide online I’m one of those people who spends way too much time looking at cute pictures of cats online. If the picture has a silly caption, so much the better. But would the worlds of LOLcats and fundraising ever collide?

Yes. Thanks to Stuart Bright, the originator of a serious donor relations problem for the Hervey Foundation for Cats, an Alberta charity for abandoned or injured cats. Bright recently pleaded guilty to charges of sending defamatory letters to 600 donors to the cat charity. From the Edmonton Sun:"
>> full article

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media: Connie Bensen's Networking 101

2007-11-21T23:04:00.000-08:00

Beth Kanter writes about Connie Bensen's Networking 101 and I would agree that there is line between the networking skills of the individual and the networking resources of the organization. I wonder if social network sites merely give the illusion of networking.

"Connie Bensen's Networking 101

I know many nonprofits that have embraced social networking sites look at networking from an organizational or campaign perspective. But, I wonder where the line is between the individual and the organization. I still believe that an individual's networking skills can be valuable to the organization. (I'm still reflecting on Carie Lewis's success). I'm struggling with this now as part of an article I'm writing (and rewriting, and rewriting) Connie Bensen has boiled some the essence of networking on social networks.

#1. Meet people as people first.

#2. Provide resources & help others.

#3. Lead yourself forward. Jeremiah O calls it paying yourself forward.

#4. Engage in partnerships & collaborations

#5. Interweave & connect with others & reflect on your network

Connie asks if we agree or have more points to add."

from Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Social Networking

2007-11-21T22:50:00.000-08:00

I have been using Facebook to link to friends and some colleagues, I am also trying to get this blog to post to my Facebook notes, not clear if this is a success or not.

I was also trying to use Now Public to do a "post once appear many" that worked a bit the trouble is finding blog posts that will serve in more than one place. There will be more on this later.

Future of Media Video: Google Takes Over the World by 2050

2007-06-17T14:31:00.001-07:00

Ran across this in the Read/WriteWeb blog

Written by Richard MacManus / June 14, 2007 / 23 comments
Davide Casaleggio sent a tip to Read/WriteWeb about a video his company produced exploring the future of media. It is a very cool 6-minute video, which takes some educated (and imaginative) guesses at how the Web and media will evolve over the next 40-50 years. In the short movie, Google, Amazon.com and Second Life are the big winners - with Google buying Microsoft, Amazon buying Yahoo, and Second Life becoming the dominant virtual world.

The core future media concept is the Agav - an Agent-Avatar, which "finds information, people, places in the virtual worlds". Here's where it gets interesting. In 2022 Google launches Prometeus, the Agav standard interface, and Amazon creates 'Place' - a company that replicates reality. Then in 2027 Second Life evolves into 'Spirit', where people can become who they want to, via avatars. And then finally, the 'Google overloads' moment - when Prometeus buys Place and Spirit! By 2050 virtual life is the world's biggest market and Google/Prometeus reigns supreme.

Of course it may turn out different, but the video does make you think about where the Web is headed. Check it out...

Source: readwriteweb.com

This reminds me of an earlier video "Epic 2015", that covers similar territory, I commented there that "I came across this a couple of years back and I've
never been able to tell if this is the end of the world or the
beginning, complete fascism or absolute freedom." and I'd have to say feelings have not chnaged.

NowPublic

Library clips :: Roundup : Googol Deskbar, WP-Offline, Click Comments, blogTV, Vyew :: June :: 2007

2007-06-17T10:35:00.000-07:00

Library clips :: Roundup : Googol Deskbar, WP-Offline, Click Comments, blogTV, Vyew :: June :: 2007"
June 13, 2007
Roundup : Googol Deskbar, WP-Offline, Click Comments, blogTV, Vyew
Filed under: tools, roundup

Nice roundup of tools and gadgets for Np-Tech

Google could be Facebook…and more on networks and communities

2007-06-08T22:55:00.001-07:00

Google could be Facebook…and more on networks and communities

from Library clips by Johnt

There’s a lot of talk about networks and communities, I posted on blog communties or networks not long ago…Collaboration Loop has a comparison.
As often put networks are individual centric, whereas communities are a place, have a main topic, agenda, set members, moderated and they die out if members are not putting in effort.

Whereas networks are self evolving, may not be intentional (they can be parts making up a whole without perhaps even knowing their involvment), and they may de-evolve of no consequence.

Anyway, my post on Facebook got me thinking the way they incorprate communities and networks into the one ecosystem, whereas Google is scattered.

For instance Google have a startpage, they have a social network, and they have communities or groups.

These are all separate products and they still can be, but there could be an option to intergrate them like Facebook.

Notice that Facebook is a startpage or personal dashboard, and it’s also a social network as you can message and add friends (share stuff, keep updated), and you can also slice smaller networks by defining a region or a company or a school…you could come up with sub-networks by filtering on any piece of common data or parameter. Notice how this is still an individual centric network, no-one may even notice they are part of the “Australia” network, not knowing their profile and content is appearing under the Australia Network page.

Then they have groups around any topic, these you know about as you have to join, members and visitors take part in discussions, etc…without member or visitor input these groups or communities become ghost towns.

Whereas this doesn’t happen with a network, there is no trail left behind if a network fades away…in saying that if all the Australian Facebook people stopped using Facebook then there would be no Australia network and there would be dead profiles (that didn’t sound good, but you know what I mean).

Basically the network (the whole) only fades away as individuals (the parts) stop using their profile, so as long as people get personal benefit and thrive, you can see many networks depending on how you slice the data.

Anyway this post was more about personal dashboards, groups and networks being intertwined in the same ecosystem…hmmm, only thing missing is task collaboration, ala Foldera.

Source: libraryclips.blogsome.com

full article >>

NowPublic

Whether you live in Facebook or email, that is the question?

2007-06-04T00:43:00.001-07:00

Whether you live in Facebook or email, that is the question?
Filed under: tools

Facebook has become the new kid on the block for me already, first it was blogging, then it was bookmarking, then it was the tweeting darling, and now I’m knee deep into Facebook…infact now I can do most of everything in Facebook, it’s my social network and productivity dashboard.

Source: libraryclips.blogsome.com

full article>>

NowPublic

Tags: Email | become | Technology | facebook

Communicating with the Web

2007-06-03T23:04:00.001-07:00

NeoOffice & OpenOffice

via Google Reader: "May 5, 2007

Just what we need for the mixed environment office that wants to be fully open source.

"A followup to yesterday's post: NeoOffice is a FREE, fully-featured set
of office applications (including word processing, spreadsheet,
presentation, and drawing programs) for Mac OS X. "

full article>>

NowPublic

NeoOffice & OpenOffice

2007-05-08T20:47:00.000-07:00

via Google Reader: "May 5, 2007

Just what we need for the mixed environment office that wants to be fully open source.

"A followup to yesterday's post: NeoOffice is a FREE, fully-featured set of office applications (including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, and drawing programs) for Mac OS X. "

full article>>

(from Jayne Blog (Volunteerism, Nonprofit Tech, etc.)

"free or cheap web-based organizing and collaboration tools,"

2007-05-07T21:07:00.000-07:00

On her blog Technology for the Nonprofit and Philanthropic Sector Deborah Elizabeth Finn has posted her handouts for a workshop that she and her co-presenter Arthur Prokosch gave recently.

I highly recommend downloading them.

Resource Roundup 4/24 from Idealware by laura

2007-04-25T23:11:00.000-07:00

Another great list from Idealware. I'm just going to put up a couple here. You can read the full article here.

Seven Ways to Get the Most Out of the Web on a Budget (ClickZ)
A practical look at the technology and marketing strategy decisions that will help small organizations get the most value out of the internet.

Free Tools for Small Organizations (World's Touch)
A long and interesting list of free tools that might be useful to organizations, although without much context for them.

Resource Roundup 4/10 from Idealware by laura

2007-04-10T23:23:00.000-07:00

via Google Reader (100+): "4:02 PM (54 minutes ago)

Another excellent round up of resouorces from Idealware by laura

MobileActive Guide #3 Released: Mobile Phones in Fundraising Campaigns(NTEN)
Continuing the MobileActive Series, a new guide on using mobile phones for fundraising.

Plone Online Training: Short Plone Overview (TechNW)
Based on the demand for our Joomla/ Drupal/ Plone overview workshop, understanding content management systems is a big need, which means that a number of you may be interested in TechNW's very reasonably priced Plone Online Training.

Managing Pictures in SharePoint (Gavin's Digital Diner)
Gavin Clabaugh lays out his process for building a Digital Asset Management system to manage photographs in SharePoint (Microsoft's intranet and collaboration tool)- an interesting piece both for those interested in DAM and in SharePoint.

Knowledge Management: Finding Quick Wins and Long Term Value (How To Save the World)
Dave Pollard lays out some very useful suggestions about what systems and processes can do to help organizational Knowledge Management in the short and long term.

Online Community through Email Lists (Beaconfire)
Great overview of how to create community using listserves - an old school but still very relevant technology - as well as how to apply these lessons to more new-fangled approaches

Software To Convert RSS Feeds Into Published Web Pages - A Mini-Guide (Kollabora)
Another in the great Kollabora mini-guide series - this one on software tools that will help you publish content from RSS feeds on your website.

Use of Web 2.0 Tools about an UK Educational Audience (TALL Blog)
Results of a very interesting survey, looking at the use of specific Web 2.0 tools and communications methods among those looking at Oxford continuing education classes.

What is Windows Vista? (ICT Hub Knowledgebase)
A great overview of what does, the differences in the various versions that are available, and what it means to you.

How to Create a Pre-filtered Mash-up of RSS feeds (Journalism.co.uk)
Step-by-step walkthrough of how to put together a RSS aggregator based on complex criteria using Yahoo Pipes

Put that in Your Pipe and Search It (NTEN)
NTEN offers an aggregator of NPTech blog posts, news, and the like, using Yahoo Pipes

A Strategy for Using Email Lists (ONE/Northwest)
Another great, practical resource from ONE/NW - this one with an overview of four ways that every organization should be using email lists.

Varieties of Membership Management (Michael Stein's Nonprofit Tech Blog)
Quick but insightful look at two fairly different types of "membership management" and the processes that go along with them.

NTC Summary, and Nonprofit Technology Consulting 2.0

2007-04-09T13:03:00.000-07:00

via Google Reader (100+): "Apr 8, 2007 (17 hours ago)

NTC Summary, and Nonprofit Technology Consulting 2.0
from Zen and the art of Nonprofit Technology by Pearlbear

As I write this, I'm hurtling through small towns and big cities on the train home. We've passed through Baltimore - which reminds me of a project I did once, way back when, to work with a group of mostly small and medium-sized organizations on technology planning. In those days, the buzzwords were 'internet connectivity,' 'networks,' 'websites,' and 'email.' This was in the solidly web 1.0 world where many organizations still weren't even networked, still used dial-up internet connections, and had websites written in the earliest version of Front Page, or were done by the CFO's nephew.

I've emerged from this week's frenzy of buzzwords like 'blogging,' 'open API,' 'e-advocacy,' 'municipal wireless' and 'social networking' not surprised at how much things have changed, really, but how much they have stayed exactly the same."

full article>>

A very insightful article, well worth the read.

What do you know about Webinars?

2007-03-28T23:07:00.000-07:00

Janet Freeman asked me what I knew about webinars, here is my reply:

From Wikipedia

A webinar is a type of web conference, although the direction of the presentation more often than not is primarily one way from the presenter to the audience as in a Webcast, which is transmission of information in one direction only, like watching a concert on the internet. A webinar however can be designed to be interactive between the presenter and audience. A webinar is 'live' in the sense that information is conveyed according to an agenda, with a starting and ending time. In most cases, the presenter may speak over a standard telephone line, pointing out information being presented on screen, and the audience can respond over their own telephones, preferably a speakerphone. The word 'webinar' is a portmanteau combining the words web and seminar.

From Idealware: "Wednesday, March 28, 2007

New Idealware Article: An Introduction to Screencasting
We have another great feature article this month, from the incomparable Beth Kanter. As many of you likely know, Beth has been doing a number of screencasts of late – for instance, on Tagging and on Widgets. These screencasts show video of her screen, along with her voice, as a way to demonstrate complex computer tasks or processes. She’s been learning a lot, and as Beth is prone to do, she’s written an article to share those learnings with the rest of us.

Her article, An Introduction to Screencasting, covers a lot of ground: the many purposes with which screencasts can help, how to go about planning and “filming” your screencast, posting and distributing it, and the software that can help in all of it."

And from:

Knowplace.ca a site and community dedicated to using Moodle to build on-line learning.

"Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities."

That's what I know.

What do you know?

Revisiting Old Ground from Idealware by laura

2007-03-26T22:11:00.000-07:00

via Google Reader (100+):

Two excellent articles from Idealware.

Revisiting Old Ground
from Idealware by laura

We’ve now done our first round of updates to old articles – we’ve updated our A Few Good Email Newsletter Tools and A Few Good Low-Cost Databases articles. Both were completely reviewed and have new tools, considerations and more.

full article >>

Resource Roundup 3/14 from Idealware by laura

2007-03-24T21:33:00.000-07:00

via Google Reader (100+):

What non-profits must learn to do and do well.

"The Basics of Email Marketing for Nonprofits (Convio)
A solid overview of the basics of email marketing, from building a list to creating effective emails to keeping them out of spam filters, with only a limited amount of marketing-ese for Convio, an integrated online software package."

You will need to register and login to the Convio site.

Google Reader (100+)

2007-03-19T13:05:00.000-07:00

Google Reader (100+): "Bruce Sterling's Talk at SXSW

from MetaFilter by stavrosthewonderchicken

Bruce Sterling's talk at SXSW is described on the landing page as a 'rant'. It isn't. What it is is a survey from 10,000 feet at what's happening in culture and technology and on the web, and I reckon it's worth spending the hour of your life it'll take to listen to it. I hope you agree. [mp3, 59 minutes]"

This is a great talk not a rant at all, Sterling's discussion of the third world of "common space, peer creation" is of particular interest to non-profits.

Moving Non-Profit Technical Information List to Blogger

2007-03-15T00:22:00.000-07:00

I've decided to move the Non-Profit Technical Information List to Blogger.

Power from the People: Assessing the New Online Participatory Tools for Your Organization

2006-12-30T19:24:00.000-08:00

By Colin Delany, December 2006

From
A very valuable resource for non-profits on the web.

New online participatory tools like blogs, YouTube, and MySpace can be powerful and valuable – if they mesh with your goals. Colin Delany walks through the benefits and costs of common participatory tools and suggests which are likely to be useful for you.

A few years ago, nonprofits and advocacy groups only had a handful of online tools to spread the word about themselves and their issues: if you had a website and an email list, you were pretty well covering the bases. Since the end of the dot-com boom, though, a whole new batch of applications has been simmering, and many have come to full boil in the last couple of years. From social media to blogs to viral marketing, these tools offer organizations entirely new avenues to find and interact with supporters and get their message out to the world.

full story>>

The Permeable Nonprofit

2006-02-17T08:10:00.000-08:00

By Michael C. Gilbert, February 2006

from Nonprofit Online News <http://news.gilbert.org/>

(This is a timely article considering our workshop on Wednesday)

There is a set of related pressures and ideas converging on nonprofits, including collaboration and mergers, ASPs, Web 2.0, network centric advocacy, blogging, social bookmarking, and so on. Although mainstream commentators of the sector are not on this yet, this convergence foretells a radical restructuring of the nonprofit sector. Read this article for the big picture and consider our upcoming online seminar, of the same name, that will dive into the immediate and useful implications for nonprofits today.

The boundaries of traditional nonprofit organizations are under relentless assault by new patterns of communication and association that are stronger than the corporate model of governance and stronger than nonprofit brands. The media of this assault are social software and the network on which such software flourishes. The assault is fueled by the very passions and people from which the organizations themselves once emerged. Ironically, although it threatens to dissolve their boundaries, this assault is very much on the same side as most of the organizations themselves.

Unless the neutral, end-to-end nature of the Internet is destroyed -- which is hardly an idle threat, given the current political alliance of the venal and the clueless -- the network assault on nonprofit boundaries will fundamentally change the form and function of our organizations.

How nonprofits choose to respond to these forces is profoundly important. Changes are going to happen. Nonprofits can deny them, resist them, be damaged by them, embrace them foolishly, or embrace them wisely. We may look back on the coming ten years and see them as a period of evolution in the structure of civil society organizations matched only by the rise of the corporate model itself. It's incumbent on the leaders of every organization to make the most of these years.

full article >>

Golbal Microbrand by hugh macleod

2006-02-03T11:01:00.000-08:00

Here is a very timely posting from gapingvoid by hugh macleod

October 11, 2005
the global microbrand rant

Since I first used the term here in December of last year, I have been totally besotted with the idea of "The Global Microbrand".

A small, tiny brand, that "sells" all over the world.

With the internet, of course, a global microbrand is easier to create than ever before. But they've existed for a while. Imagine a well-known author or painter, selling his work all over the world. Or a small whisky distillery in Scotland. Or a small cheese maker in rural France, whose produce is exported to Paris, London, Tokyo etc. Ditto with a violin maker in Italy. A classical guitar maker in Spain. A commercial sign maker in New England. Or a sheet metal entrepreneur in the U.K.

And with the advent of blogs this was no longer just limited to people who made products. We saw that any service professional with a bit of talent and something to say could spread their message far and wide beyond their immediate client base and local market, without needing a high-profile name or the goodwill of the mainstream media. People like Jennifer Rice, Johnnie Moore and Evelyn Rodriguez come to mind.

Nonprofits and Weblogs

2005-10-28T00:29:00.000-07:00

By Michael C. Gilbert

I continue to be baffled by how long it's taken nonprofits to catch on to blogging. In 1998, I was teaching web strategy workshops in which I described a number of strategies for failure on the web. The main advice that I offered was for nonprofits to adopt a news page format, with reverse chronological entries linking to deeper content on site and elsewhere online. It's such a simple concept, but very few nonprofits adopted it.

In my communication workshops, I still find that nearly every nonprofit organization is rather afraid of the idea of blogging. It's threatening to them to have their staff blogging, it's too much work to have their leaders blogging, and it seems irrelevant to have their stakeholders blogging. Obviously, I support all three of these blogging strategies and I think that together they represent a resurgence of a community based form of organizing, whether in support of social service or social change. But I think the vast majority of the sector isn't there yet.

The people who are paying attention are the nonprofit techies, which represents an important change. A few years ago at conferences I started asking my colleagues in the nonprofit technology field if they had a weblog. I guess I thought it was time, but people looked at me strangely, so I stopped asking. Sometime in the year or two after that, they started blogging. This is really rewarding for me personally, because among this wave of bloggers are some very thoughtful people who take a systems perspective to nonprofit technology. The online conversations that are starting around those issues are exciting.

There are a great many different possible models for nonprofit blogging. Right now, I think the highest payback for individual nonprofits is to...

For the full article:

http://news.gilbert.org/clickThru/redir/5801/15131/rms

I could not agree more.

Jack

2005 CCIR Conference presentation

2005-10-26T09:30:00.000-07:00

Simon and I had a great time doing our presentation. We were both pleasantly surprised by the very good attendance, considering we were the last presentation on the last day of the conference. Our attendees were engaged and full of questions and comments, a pleasure to work with them.

I have posted the Powerpoint slides on my site here.. We will continue with this blog for a short while to give people a chance to try it out.

Jack

Top Ten Blog Blunders

2005-10-24T23:40:00.000-07:00

Jakob Neilson has published a list of the top mistakes bloggers make. These include

1. No author bio.
2. No author photo.
3. Nondescript posting titles.
4. Links don't say where they go.
5. Classic hits are buried.
6. The calendar is the only navigation.
7. Irregular publishing frequency.
8. Mixing topics.
9. Forgetting that you write for your future boss.
10. Having a domain name owned by a weblog service.

Here's one in depth. For 'boss', you can read 'funder' if you like.

"9. Forgetting That You Write for Your Future Boss
Whenever you post anything to the Internet -- whether on a weblog, in a discussion group, or even in an email -- think about how it will look to a hiring manager in ten years. Once stuff's out, it's archived, cached, and indexed in many services that you might never be aware of.

"Years from now, someone might consider hiring you for a plum job and take the precaution of 'nooping you first. (Just taking a stab at what's next after Google. Rest assured: there will be some super-snooper service that'll dredge up anything about you that's ever been bitified.) What will they find in terms of naïvely puerile "analysis" or offendingly nasty flames published under your name?

"Think twice before posting. If you don't want your future boss to read it, don't post."

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/weblogs.html

Why have a corporate Blog?

2005-10-24T23:34:00.000-07:00

Here's a discussion about corporate blogging. A lot of the material is directly translatable to the not-for-profit sphere.

http://www.corporateblogging.info/basics/why/

Follow the link for the whole article, but the top three tips are:

"Become the Expert
Position yourself and your company as the thought leader of your business.

"Customer Relationships
In a forum where your main objective not is to sell, you'll have a more personal relationship between you and your customers. Blogs are a fast way to join the customers' discussions, provide tips and insights or receive feedback.

"Media Relations
It's every PR-consultants dream to create a channel where media regularly check what you have to say, instead of media just being passive - sometimes indifferent - recipients of press releases."

Philippine Bishops ordered to blog!

2005-10-24T23:31:00.000-07:00

"BISHOPS are never too old for high technology.

"Thus, the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) announced Wednesday that it has directed every Filipino bishop to create their own blog to expand their reach to the faithful.

"As defined, a blog a Web site that contains dated entries in reverse chronological order (most recent first) about a particular topic. Functioning as an online journal, blogs can be written by one person or a group of contributors. Entries contain commentary and links to other Web sites, and images as well as a search facility may also be included.

"Mark Inigo Tallara, information officer and media relation assistant of the CBCP, said "our aim is to make every bishop accessible to the faithful, particularly to the youth that's why we want each of them to have their own blog."

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/man/2005/10/13/news/bishops.to.have.individual.online.journals.html

Web forums good for health, study finds

2005-10-24T23:05:00.000-07:00

A study published this week by University College, London, found positive client-health outcomes for health information websites which contained internet community forums--benefits which were not apparrant for sites which contained information alone.

Here's part of the BBC's coverage of the study:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4352626.stm

"They looked at these people's use of interactive computer websites and programmes, which contained information services plus online support groups, chatrooms, or tailored advice based on a person's details, affected people with such chronic diseases.

"Interactive sites were of greater benefit to people than those with information alone, or not using sites at all.

"The researchers found such sites have largely positive effects on users, making them feel better informed and more socially supported.

"Overall, people who used such sites appeared to see improvements in the way they looked after their health and in their clinical condition."

This supports my view that online communities can be as real (in psychological terms) as any in real life.

I think this observation can be valid for more than just health information sites--many specialized I&Rs might help their clients by hosting an online forum where the members could support each other.

A summary of the study can be found here: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/pcps/research/ehealth/documents/infopac_study_execsummary.pdf

Preview of our Presentation

2005-10-24T19:44:00.000-07:00

Simon and I previewed our presentation/workshop to Isabel of ISV at the Wine & Cheese event this evening and we were greatly pleased by her interest in the concepts we will be talking about tomorrow afternoon (3:00 pm in the Granville island Hotel).

We hope to see you all there.

Jack

The router is up!

2005-10-24T14:14:00.000-07:00

We got the router up finally.

The afternoon is moving along and I will be going to the Canadian Taxonomy workshop in a while.

jack

At the Conference now!

2005-10-24T10:38:00.000-07:00

Hello:

We have the internet cafe up and running (but not with our router yet) thanks to ISV.

So the internet cafe is now open for conference attendees, and I will try to post throughout the day.

The idea behind this blog is to show how a blog can be used to promote a non-profit organization and to inform stakeholders, colleagues and the public of what that non-profit is doing.

Jack Vickery

Introduction

2005-10-23T15:24:00.000-07:00

We will be using this blog to demonstrate some of the ideas that will be covered in the presentation "Communicating with the Web" at the CCIR Conference Oct 24th and 25th in Vancouver BC.

We are:

Jack Vickery

Jack is the principal of Vickery Consulting a private practice consultancy in the Lower Mainland working with a variety of non-profits as system administrators, webmasters, and help develop Internet and Email Strategies to fulfill their missions.

Contact info:
Email: jack@vickeryconsulting.ca
Web: www.vickeryconsulting.ca
Telephone: 604-681-4014

Simon Ladell

Simon is the Community Education Manager for Vancouver agency the Seniors Housing Information Project, and is the former manager of Information Services with Ontario I&R service Volunteer & Information Quinte. His past includes stints in marketing, in the software industry, and writing both journalism and Science Fiction.

Contact info:
Email: simonl@seniorshousing.bc.ca
Web: www.seniorshousing.bc.ca
Telephone: 604-520-6621