1/2 hour break – I’ll be introducing a whole ton of awesome people who will talk a little about what their nonprofits are up to, both as newbies and veterans of the NTC conference; I’ll also talk about latest news hot off the press, and some of the service projects going on around San Francisco. LIVESTREAMED SESSIONS -  Picturing Your Data is Better Than 1,000 Numbers: Data Visualization Techniques for Social Change. /  Building and Supporting Drupal Websites: In-House, Outhouse, or Both? Livestream on Wednesday and Thursday this week (April 4/5). Meta, right? MORE >>

Marshall Kirkpatrick talked about aggregation and filtering several years ago in How to Build an RSS and Blog News Site for Your Project where he had cobbled together a solution using Google Blog Search,  dapper, Feed Digest, PostRank, Roller, and others.  Drupal. Licorize – Turn web page bookmarking and status updates into projects, ideas, teams at work. And relative to the sheer volume of content available to me, I’m actually consuming a smaller percentage every day. How do you do it and what tools are available to you? How do you do this in a time-efficient manner? MORE >>

We wouldn’t have GNU Linux, Ubuntu, Apache, Drupal, and we’d all be using Internet Explorer without the option to switch to Firefox or Chrome. But reading Matthew Ingram’s post last week about the lack of adoption for an open Twitter alternative highlighted the key reason why so few open source projects become mainstream success stories at the level of WordPress or Firefox. There’s a painful truth here for developers currently flocking to the latest cool open source project on Github. Open source is a wonderful thing. Buffer. MORE >>

Here some brand Timelines I think do a good job projecting their brand, either with evocative or explicit imagery: National Geographic evokes adventure, both on Earth and in the cosmos. This is a guest post by Tim Ware, owner of  HyperArts , a Web shop that specializes in WordPress and Drupal CMS, Facebook Tab development, and SEO. You This is a guest post by Tim Ware. ” And there’s no other option. consider this the biggest drawback with the Timeline layout, followed closely by no longer being able to set a default landing tab for non-fans. The Rolling Stones! Corona. MORE >>

Interestingly, some faculties have implemented and manage their own VLEs which are more dynamic, more concerned with learning experiences and are publicly-licensed products (eg.LRN , Moodle , Plone , Drupal , Sakai ). If an individual has enough server space available, with the right software facilities in place, plone or Drupal could be installed and employed as a PLE. Through the project they will define the scope, review the theory, come up with scenarios (use cases), look for and document patterns, and define some specifications. eLearning & Deliberative Moments. 2002). MORE >>