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Slacktivism and Data Hygiene

Nerding, Nonprofiteering on April 21st, 2010 No Comments

I’ve been nodding along with both sides of the ‘slactivism’ debate for a few months.  Is it a good thing to give people small, low (but not zero) impact opportunities to help out causes?  Do micro-donations and micro-volunteering discourage later, more significant engagement?  Well, either nobody knows for sure, or nobody has measured it, or [...]

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Slides from ‘Browser Automation FTW’ – NTC 2010

Nerding, Nonprofiteering on April 10th, 2010 No Comments

Browser Automation – NTC 2010 View more presentations from ehrenfoss.

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Email Management

Life, Nerding on April 8th, 2010 No Comments

My email management process is a source of pride.  It’s not the best in the world, but it works very well for me.  It borrows a lot from Merlin Mann’s Inbox Zero ouvre, and I’m sure many more neat tricks have been implemented by the community than by moi. It all starts with GMail.  There [...]

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Joomla – Flexible Templates

Nerding on April 1st, 2010 No Comments

This article may not be helpful to you unless you’re already familiar with how Joomla templates work, particularly  module positions and styling.  If you’re not a PHP person, you may have to ask your PHP person to do this for you if they don’t know how already.  For my first few Joomla sites I was [...]

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Joomla! What I’ve Learned

Nerding on March 30th, 2010 No Comments

Like many widely adopted open source projects Joomla has a wealth of user documentation, forum posts, plugins, training materials and all the other trappings of good software.  I wanted to write a few posts, though, and outline a few things that I’ve learned which are central to my understanding of Joomla. First, Installation If you’ve [...]