What a day! The platform war between Facebook and Google + officially launched with a press conference at Facebook announcing the new "awesome" features including one click skype/Facebook integration for video chat. I watched live stream on Facebook and the real time snarky reactions coming across Google +. The snark comes as no surprise given the characteristics of the users so far. The most popular snark was this photo of Mark Zuckerberg. The screen capture also illustrates the lack … [Read more...]
Google+ – Yi-Tan Call Notes
Yi-Tan Community hosts a weekly 40-minute conference call about navigating change in technology and society. Jerry Michalski is the moderator. I used to participate in the calls way back in 2005 in the early days of blogging and always found the calls informative. Yesterday's Yi-Tan call with Jerry Michalski was about Google +. Charles Warren who was on the Google + team was on the call. Google sees granular privacy controls as a way to spark more sharing because people will feel more … [Read more...]
Google +: The Trade Off Between Privacy Needs, Community, and Social Context
On Friday, I tripped down the rabbit hole of Google + field test with many other social media early adopters and nonprofit technology (#nptech folks) who were kicking the tires. Google + is Google's new social sharing platform. (Here's the official announcement on the Google Blog and review in the New York Times. You won't be able to play with until Google does the full roll out, you'll have to click the keep me posted button: here). Google + was just one of a series of new releases … [Read more...]
Enchantment: Resisting Guy Kawasaki Is Futile
Yesterday, the Social Media for Nonprofit Conference series kicked off in San Francisco yesterday in War Memorial Green Room with support from Microsoft. The conference shared practical tips and tools with expert speakers including, JD Lasica, Social Brite, Susan Gordon of Causes.com, Jonah Sachs of Free Range Studios, Charles Porch of Facebook, Susan Tenby of TechSoup Global and Kellie McElhaney, founding faculty director of the Center for Responsible Business at the Haas School of … [Read more...]
Dashboard Design Principles
Dashboards are a nonprofit's best friend because they can be powerful tools in communicating your organization's important measurement data at a glance. If a dashboard fails to tell you what need in glance, then you've wasted all that data collection time. What if you married with the power of a dashboard with visual design? Maybe you are scratching your head and thinking, but I'm not a visual designer. (I'm not either) The challenge of good dashboard design is that you have squeeze … [Read more...]
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