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A Catalogue of Social Media (and Related) Tools | Digital Politics | Big Think
From Groundwire RSS Aggregator. Published on Feb 07, 2012.
Response to Washington Policy Center's False Claims — Transportation Choices Coalition
From Groundwire RSS Aggregator. Published on Feb 07, 2012.
The Five Stages of A Social Media PR Disaster | Beth’s Blog
From Groundwire RSS Aggregator. Published on Feb 07, 2012.
One Less Word Challenge (#onelessword)
From Groundwire RSS Aggregator. Published on Feb 07, 2012.
Scout’s honor: The push for sustainable cookies isn’t over yet | Grist
From Groundwire RSS Aggregator. Published on Feb 07, 2012.
Take Zap! Tech Geeks, Starved for More Battery Power, Give Themselves a Charge - WSJ.com
From Groundwire RSS Aggregator. Published on Feb 07, 2012.
Stuff I’m reading (weekly)
From Groundwire RSS Aggregator. Published on Feb 04, 2012.
Paul Beaudet | The Center for Effective Philanthropy Three nice articles from Paul on effective grantmaking practices tags: philanthropy ConsiderIt :: framing deliberation on the web tags: deliberation collaboration software UW Pricing Strategy for Creatives tags: consulting business NodeXL Graph … Continue readingFinally! A Washington State nonprofit association
From Groundwire RSS Aggregator. Published on Jan 25, 2012.
It’s nice to see that Washington Nonprofits, a statewide association of Washington nonprofit organizations, is finally getting off the ground. Washington has long been one of the few states that doesn’t have such an organization.The Legal Implications of Issuing an RFP
By (author unknown) from Groundwire RSS Aggregator. Published on Jan 15, 2012.
Multicast filtering on UW wireless networks?
From Groundwire RSS Aggregator. Published on Jan 11, 2012.
Sitting with an idle laptop on a UW wireless network here at the Evans School, I typically see a constant 40-50kb/sec of traffic flowing into my machine. At first I thought it was somebody attempting to hack or DDOS my … Continue readingWSDOT traffic data: missing in action
From Groundwire RSS Aggregator. Published on Jan 10, 2012.
With the recent start of tolling on SR-520 here in Seattle, the public’s attention is suddenly on traffic volumes on 520 and I-90. So, this morning, I went over to the WSDOT website to see if I could find a … Continue readingA week in the life of a Biz. Dev. Pro
By (author unknown) from Groundwire RSS Aggregator. Published on Jan 04, 2012.
Managing money for social change agents
From Groundwire RSS Aggregator. Published on Jan 03, 2012.
I’m hardly a financial wiz, nor am I fabulously wealthy. But I’ve managed to do a reasonably decent job of saving and managing money over 15 years as an underpaid social change activist. Here’s some big-picture advice: 1) Live beneath … Continue readingAl Gore and David Blood: A Manifesto for Sustainable Capitalism - WSJ.com
From Groundwire RSS Aggregator. Published on Dec 14, 2011.
Naomi Klein's Inconvenient Climate Conclusions - NYTimes.com
From Groundwire RSS Aggregator. Published on Dec 13, 2011.
A Seismic Shift in Marketing & Marketing Firms
By (author unknown) from Groundwire RSS Aggregator. Published on Dec 07, 2011.
What's Wrong With #FirstWorldProblems - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic
From Groundwire RSS Aggregator. Published on Nov 28, 2011.
Here's a First World problem: the inability to see that others are as fully complex and as keen on technology and pleasure as you are.Kalle Lasn and Micah White, the Creators of Occupy Wall Street : The New Yorker
From Groundwire RSS Aggregator. Published on Nov 28, 2011.
Advanced Lead Management
By (author unknown) from Groundwire RSS Aggregator. Published on Nov 02, 2011.
A Bite from the Apple
By (author unknown) from Groundwire RSS Aggregator. Published on Oct 10, 2011.
ReCourses New Business Summit
By (author unknown) from Groundwire RSS Aggregator. Published on Oct 10, 2011.
A Website that Works
By (author unknown) from Groundwire RSS Aggregator. Published on Oct 04, 2011.
Advocacy in the Cloud slides and recording
From Groundwire RSS Aggregator. Published on Sep 16, 2011.
I recently had the pleasure of facilitating a Dreamforce session where two amazing people talked about how their organizations have gone all-in with engagement. The DC Project and Idaho Conservation League are each betting their futures on engagement, and in very different ways. Sara Arkle talked about how Idaho Conservation League is turning the organizational [...]Scoring Opportunities
By (author unknown) from Groundwire RSS Aggregator. Published on Sep 14, 2011.
Getting More Out of Salesforce
By (author unknown) from Groundwire RSS Aggregator. Published on Aug 12, 2011.
Closing the Positioning Gap
By (author unknown) from Groundwire RSS Aggregator. Published on Jul 13, 2011.
The Impact of Creative Quality on Business Development Success
By (author unknown) from Groundwire RSS Aggregator. Published on Jun 25, 2011.
Online Business Development Training
By (author unknown) from Groundwire RSS Aggregator. Published on Jun 22, 2011.
Chrome Extension: Salesforce.com Id Clipper
From Groundwire RSS Aggregator. Published on Jun 06, 2011.
I had a great idea for a Chrome Extension that was pretty complicated, so I decided to come up with a simpler project to learn the ropes. This weekend I built the Salesforce.com Id Clipper, a Chrome Extension that helps you get Salesforce.com Ids from records more easily than copying. It’s a small problem I’m [...]Raising Dead Opportunities
By (author unknown) from Groundwire RSS Aggregator. Published on Jun 01, 2011.
Generating Leads Through Webinars
By (author unknown) from Groundwire RSS Aggregator. Published on May 11, 2011.
Nonprofit Starter Pack and Money
From Groundwire RSS Aggregator. Published on May 09, 2011.
At a recent gathering of nonprofit-focused Salesforce developers, we got into a deep discussion about how to best track money in Salesforce. Everyone agreed that the Opportunity object was key, but there were differing opinions about what else needed to be done and how. I realized that this group of people, who had years and [...]Getting Paid
By (author unknown) from Groundwire RSS Aggregator. Published on May 03, 2011.
Join our team
From Groundwire RSS Aggregator. Published on Apr 14, 2011.
The Salesforce.com Foundation technology team received a compliment the other day when a co-worker said, “Wow, your technology team is atypical.” I’ve been on great teams before in my career, and our team right now is up there as one of the best. I’m looking for a Force.com Developer to join us in our work [...]Advanced Strategies for LinkedIn
By (author unknown) from Groundwire RSS Aggregator. Published on Apr 13, 2011.
The Evolution of Confidence
By (author unknown) from Groundwire RSS Aggregator. Published on Mar 26, 2011.
Branded Studies
By (author unknown) from Groundwire RSS Aggregator. Published on Mar 09, 2011.
JP Rangaswami on social objects
From Groundwire RSS Aggregator. Published on Feb 27, 2011.
I’ve been really enjoying JP Ranagaswami’s latest series on social objects in the enterprise. His series so far is here, here, and here. I’m finding his tale of the merging of internal systems of record with external systems of engagement, and the socialization and consumerization of these objects to be really compelling. The corporation is [...]From Generalist to Specialist
By (author unknown) from Groundwire RSS Aggregator. Published on Feb 26, 2011.
The Divine Right of Capital
From Groundwire RSS Aggregator. Published on Feb 18, 2011.
A number of years ago I read The Divine Right of Capital by Marjorie Kelly and it blew my mind. It’s a book that has changed the way I look at the world of business, and reinforced the concept that in systems there are rarely unintended consequences–the rules are there to bring about outcomes desired [...]Coherence by Richard H. Bailey
From Groundwire RSS Aggregator. Published on Nov 12, 2010.
I just read Rick Bailey’s book on nonprofit marketing, Coherence. Rick’s son Nick is a friend of mine and another Salesforce.com coder-for-good We’ve had a number of conversations about nonprofits and leadership, and when we met up at Web Of Change this year, Nick passed on his dad’s book. Coherence is Rick’s name for telling [...]Segmenting Campaigns
From Groundwire RSS Aggregator. Published on Oct 15, 2010.
In the run up to the amazing Web of Change conference this year, I was asked to write a think-piece. I ended up writing about being scientific in the design, implementation, and analysis of our work. I called it We Must Be Scientists for Change, and it seemed to resonate with a number of the [...]We must be scientists for change
From Groundwire RSS Aggregator. Published on Sep 07, 2010.
I just posted an article for the Web of Change conference, which takes place in a few weeks. I make the call for our sector to become more scientific in our approach–posing testable questions, using technology to get results, analyzing meticulously and sharing systematically, and jumping quickly to posing the next hypothesis. Please check out [...]Textexpander snippets for Apex
From Groundwire RSS Aggregator. Published on Aug 14, 2010.
I just upgraded my work computer to Snow Leopard and one of the benefits I was most excited about was being able to update Textexpander, the incredibly handy snippet tool. You create short codes and when you type them they are replaced with pre-recorded text. They’re much better at describing what it does. It’s really [...]Transition is when you really appreciate keeping track of things
From Groundwire RSS Aggregator. Published on Aug 06, 2010.
I recently started a new job here at the Foundation and it’s a bit like other internal transitions I’ve made in my career. There are innumerable transition tasks–meetings for getting up to speed, relationship hand-offs, getting dropped into new projects and processes, new team-members, etc. It can be overwhelming, mostly because the old duties don’t [...]Move messages to Archive in Entourage
From Groundwire RSS Aggregator. Published on Jul 01, 2010.
I have to use Entourage at work with our Exchange server. Because I subscribe to the concept of Inbox Zero, and because we have very low mailbox size limits, I move all my messages out of my inbox as soon as I can. I found that I was dragging messages over to a local archive [...]Salesforce.com as free, bolt-on analytics engine for any database app
From Groundwire RSS Aggregator. Published on Jun 02, 2010.
Over my career I’ve noticed that most applications have very limited reporting and charting features. I’ve tried to write some of my own and realized quickly why this is–analytics is hard! Visual query builders, dynamic charting, aggregation of data, it’s all really tough to do right. I also think most application teams start out with [...]Salesforce sending SMS through FrontlineSMS
From Groundwire RSS Aggregator. Published on May 27, 2010.
FrontlineSMS is an open source application used primarily in the developing world for communicating with large numbers of cell phone users. It’s a locally installed application that pushes SMS messages out through your tethered cell phone. It’s a really cool app with all sorts of great real-world usage. My friend Dale Zak just built an [...]Send To Omnifocus from Google Reader
From Groundwire RSS Aggregator. Published on May 25, 2010.
When I’m surfing the web or reading email, I often run across things that I don’t have time to complete now, but want to do later. It’s at times like these I “send” things to Omnifocus. I do this in many ways. Omnifocus has great built in scripting, so I have keyboard shortcuts to send [...]Email Handler for Chatter
From Groundwire RSS Aggregator. Published on May 23, 2010.
I wrote an application for the Chatter Developer Challenge, which you can install free from the AppExchange. It is called Email2Chatter, and it is an inbound email handler that automatically posts the subject and body text of email you send to your Chatter feed. Email2Chatter supports email attachments, posting them to the Chatter feed for [...]Geocoding and Districting
From Groundwire RSS Aggregator. Published on May 18, 2010.
Groundwire’s latest project on Code Share is Geocoding and Districting. It uses address information to look up the latitude, longitude, congressional district, and state legislative districts for each contact and account entered into Salesforce. I got the idea for this when I discovered Mobile Commons‘ free web service for looking up district information. Because I [...]Code Sharing
From Groundwire RSS Aggregator. Published on May 12, 2010.
If you follow the new projects on Force.com Code Share, you may have noticed that Groundwire has posted several open-source projects there. Since Salesforce created the Code Share site a year and a half ago, I’ve benefited from a lot of great sample code posted there. I had always hoped to participate in projects or [...]Combine campaigns and exclude members with our new Campaign Combiner
From Groundwire RSS Aggregator. Published on Apr 05, 2010.
Campaigns in Salesforce offer many powerful features, and we encourage our nonprofit clients to use them for all sorts of things: email outreach lists, mailings, event participants, lists of people taking part in activism, and so on. We love the way that Campaigns allow you to add people from multiple lists or reports without ever [...]Mark Sigal's Blog - The Network Garden: Open "ish": The meaning of open, according to Google
From Groundwire RSS Aggregator. Published on Jan 06, 2010.
There are two components to our definition of open: open technology and open information.Groundwire is hiring a CRM Consultant
From Groundwire RSS Aggregator. Published on Dec 10, 2009.
I'm excited to report that our veteran CRM team at Groundwire is growing. We looking for a new CRM Consultant. This is a full-time, Seattle-based position. I can't say enough about my organization -- our staff is made up of people who are creative, knowledgeable and passionate about the work we do. We are capacity-builders, collaborators, and pioneers in our field. And we have a lot of fun.What's an Email Address Worth? Just Calculate it!
From Groundwire RSS Aggregator. Published on Nov 25, 2009.
Evolution: The Eight Stages Of Listening
From Groundwire RSS Aggregator. Published on Nov 10, 2009.
Michael Silberman on 350 Global Day of Action
From Groundwire RSS Aggregator. Published on Nov 02, 2009.
DiSO Dashboard Outline proposal
From Groundwire RSS Aggregator. Published on Nov 01, 2009.
And when we all have something in common like a Dashboard, we can then have an Outline file (or page tags) which represents what the Dashboard contains - it’s content, your profile info and social graph, what modules and UI elements are INSIDE the Dashboard, what feeds you’ve subscribed to, it’s configuration info - everything.Socio-graphics - from demographics to psychographics to socio-graphics
From Groundwire RSS Aggregator. Published on Nov 01, 2009.
A more powerful predictor of John's purchasing behavior is what his friends are doing and buying. For instance, people interested in wine tend to hang out with people who also are interested in wine. And if a company is pitching a product, its best prospects are the friends of its current consumers: a golden leads list.Visualising sustainability « Computing for Sustainability
From Groundwire RSS Aggregator. Published on Nov 01, 2009.
Epeus' epigone: How Twitter works in theory
From Groundwire RSS Aggregator. Published on Nov 01, 2009.
Social Graph API - Google Code
From Groundwire RSS Aggregator. Published on Nov 01, 2009.
10 Green Social Networks You Should Know « Earth2Tech
From Groundwire RSS Aggregator. Published on Oct 30, 2009.
Make The Perfect Screencast With These 6 Great Tips
From Groundwire RSS Aggregator. Published on Oct 30, 2009.
Salesforce data storage woes
From Groundwire RSS Aggregator. Published on Oct 29, 2009.
Data storage is what is on my mind these days. Like a gathering storm on the horizon, storage is a finite resource that is fast being consumed by my non-profit clients. The more successful the clients in their outreach efforts, the faster they are running out of space. The number one culprit is popular blast [...]Salesforce Sites page as a form endpoint
From Groundwire RSS Aggregator. Published on Oct 21, 2009.
I’m working on a project right now that requires collecting contact information through a number of web forms into Salesforce. The standard web-to-lead form simply won’t work for this particular client, because they’re anticipating a big media pop from their outreach campaign, which would easily overwhelm the 500 sign-ups per day limit. A Salesforce Sites [...]A word of thanks
From Groundwire RSS Aggregator. Published on Oct 08, 2009.
I’d like to kickoff this new blog with a word of thanks to two important organizations without whom this blog (and my career for that matter) would not be possible — the Salesforce.com Foundation and CRMFusion. The Salesforce.com Foundation enables thousands of non-profit organizations to tap into the Force.com platform to manage their CRM databases, [...]Hello World!
From Groundwire RSS Aggregator. Published on Sep 30, 2009.
Welcome to my new blog, check back often.Find a Hike — Washington Trails Association
From Groundwire RSS Aggregator. Published on Aug 20, 2009.
Hiking database for finding great trails in the NorthwestDrew Bernard's Blog
From Groundwire RSS Aggregator. Published on Aug 20, 2009.
My colleague's blog