The Lights. Camera. Help Festival is happening again this year, and if you live in Austin or are visiting in the last few days of July, you should get some tickets and go. Why? First, altruism aside, it’s an interesting, engaging event. Last year just by sitting on my tookus for a few hours I [...]
This might not be the only such product being developed, but it’s notable nonetheless. Siteonmobile appears to be a toolkit that will allow for ‘compressed web interactions’ supporting existing (or new) web services. What does that mean? I think it means that it will be easier for websites to support a few common features that [...]
Growth! As threatened, we are growing. A few weeks ago I settled on the right person to become Prelude’s first real hire. We’ve been doing great work with contractors for a while, but now that we’re up to around 500 hours of effort a month, it’s clear that I’m the bottleneck. HelpAttack! As you may [...]
Vis-a-vis a conversation with Hilary Mason and Chris Wiggins, Jake Hofman pointed me towards Catchafire.org. Ever since getting involved in the nonprofit technology sector, I’ve been curious about skilled volunteering, and somewhat fascinated by the lack of attention paid to it. Catchafire wants to make it easier for people to participate as effective skills-based volunteers. [...]
I wanted to write a short post simply to highlight a piece of volunteerism related software that I think does a lot of things right. In the spirit of MailChimp, BasecampHQ, Freshbooks, Threadless, and other darling websites, it does one thing well: Helps people self-organize their volunteer activities and volunteers. Where this really hits a [...]
