Back from the Nonprofit Technology Conference

Posted March 23rd, 2008 by Steve Backman
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I'm just back from this year's NTC (Nonprofit Technology Conference) in New Orleans.  The most striking and welcome thing for me was the richness of experiences in organizing campaigns and building constituency on the web today. Lots of detailed, honest sharing of experiences in blending email, one's own web site, and the social media to accomplish meaningful goals. By social media, I mean public resources such as FaceBook, mySpace, care2, blogging, social tagging.
 

FairTest.org site relaunches

Posted January 17th, 2008 by Steve Backman
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Cambridge, Mass-based national advocacy organization FairTest has relaunched its web site, fairtest.org, based on the Drupal content management system. Also known as The National Center for Fair & Open Testing, FairTest has championed the cause of open and educationally valid assessment of students, teachers and schools, from K12 through college.  

Learning from the Presidential Campaigns websites...about technology

Posted August 28th, 2007 by Steve Backman
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Who’s not following the presidential nomination campaigns, at least a little bit? It’s been here, it’s happening, a year early, as much because of what’s on line as what’s happening on the ground. We got a taste of these new things in 2004, but this year, all the campaigns have embraced myspace-style social networking, come to terms with youtube, and grasped the importance of blogging. And at the center of each campaign, we see large scale online organizing and community building web sites.