July 27, 2010
July 19, 2010
Nobody likes to be in an unproductive meeting. Yet many phone conferences and business meetings drag on way too long, go off-topic or simply have unfocused leadership.
Here are three simple ways you can apply right away to make all your meetings more effective:
July 14, 2010
I love learning and sharing tips that make my day more productive. Often times, I find it's the simplest ones I find the most useful.
If you're like me, you spend a significant portion of your day interacting on the Gmail web interface. However, one of my biggest pet peeves in Gmail is losing access to the rest of my mail, since it takes up the entire window, when composing a new message.
Alas, I discovered the key! By simply by holding down the SHIFT key when...
July 5, 2010
A question recently came up on our internal team list.
June 25, 2010
With all the new people joining the CivicActions team in the past few weeks, it's easy for us all to forget an important part of the on-boarding process of new civic-minded nodeists.
Profile pictures.
An appropriate profile picture is essential to one's ensconcement into the CivicActions fold. Before you go digging through iPhoto for that winning head-shot, let me present a brief analysis of what makes a properly awesome CivicActions profile photo.
June 15, 2010
No, Code for America isn't looking for a couple thousand gentlemen. They're looking for geeks (of any gender) to award yearlong Fellowships (living wage, health insurance, travel expenses) starting in 2011 to build Government 2.0 apps for a number of local governments.
May 28, 2010
What're you crazy!? Haven't you ever heard of the CCK module? Yes, it's true CCK coupled with views will allow one to create, manipulate and display custom content. Combined with hook_nodeapi, the cck/views combo is can be extremely powerful and flexible. 99% of the time these two modules are sufficient to handle the job of building and managing custom content. The problem arises when you need any sort of custom access control or ownership of your custom node content. With CCK, the ownership...
May 26, 2010
If you want to install Ubuntu 10.04 and you're running Drupal sites, you'll need to downgrade the installed PHP 5.3 to 5.2, as though recent Drupal core is mostly 5.3 compatible, many contributed modules aren't yet.
May 25, 2010
For some time now, I've wanted to have an svn set up on my shared web host similar to what we have here at civicactions. Having to make changes on my local machine for any personal (non-civicactions client) sites, then scp those files up to my server is ridiculous -- especially since when working on client sites, I've become so used to simply commiting the changes to a repository and then updating that repository on the server side. All that said though, I kept putting off the...
May 20, 2010
Idealware just released a report on their survey of nearly 500 nonprofit professionals regarding their use of social media and their perceptions of the efficacy of various social media channels.