Your suggestions are heard. Yes, I know it can be hard to believe sometimes but some people (finger pointing at me and the rest of Blackbaud) love to listen. Listening is fun because you don’t have to pretend to know everything. You can let others share their unique experiences, thoughts, and visions...

The journey from last week to this week already feels a decade long as I’ve encountered many trials and errors in converting internal team documentation authored in Structured FrameMaker into a Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 friendly format. In other words, complex framemaker to basic html. I’m not...

I noticed this week that Causes in Facebook seem to have improved their ease of recruiting. I was recruited to a couple of my favorite local nonprofits and in return could invite others all without much effort. The other nice part about Causes in Facebook? Once you invite someone and they join, you can...

A week later and my experiment with paring down the number of people I follow has worked wonders (so far). I’m back to following people without as much anxiety and I can keep up without dedicating my every working moment to watching the stream of collective thought dumps. Talk much? My excessive tweeters...

We all know in the last year or two tv and movies have invaded the Internet in all new ways. (My favorite... hulu.com ). But yesterday, when I got home from work I was flipping through the channels and stumbled onto Oprah using Skype on her tv show. What? When did that happen? She had a regular show...

(Originally appeared on From the Doc Side ) Lately, much has been said about Twitter . Chad wrote a great post ( Twitter Makes Relationships Work - Right Now ) with an explanation of what Twitter is so I'll skip the overview and get to the business case. Let's start with a little confession I...

(Originally appeared on From the Doc Side ) Since June of 2006 I’ve been moderating wikis as a part-time job for a company in Seattle. And then soon after at Blackbaud, we’ve explored and researched the use of a wiki as a help file. Since then, I’ve been focusing my efforts on creating an internal documentation...

(Originally appeared on From the Doc Side ) Google posted on their blog today that Google Sites is now open to everyone. Curious as I am, I checked out what this new Google Sites feature was. After all, I knew they had acquired Jotspot a while back and now we get to see how they reconfigured it. It appears...

Being involved in information on a daily basis and trying to keep everything organized in my head I'm always looking for tools to streamline and simplify the process. An online tool that's been on my periphery of late is del.icio.us . del.icio.us is a social bookmarking site. It has a bunch of...

Lately, much has been said about Twitter . Chad wrote a great post ( Twitter Makes Relationships Work - Right Now ) with an explanation of what Twitter is so I'll skip the overview and get to the business case. Let's start with a little confession I should make… For a while, I had a twitter account...