by gregoryheller | Jan 7, 2008 | Uncategorized
In my ongoing campaign to think and be carbon neutral, and spread the message far and wide, I asked the DrupalCon Boston organizers to post information about offsetting the carbon footprint associated with traveling to DrupalCon in March. I hope that individuals and shops will consider purchasing offsets for their DrupalCon associated travel, as well as other...
by gregoryheller | Jan 4, 2008 | Uncategorized
Just before the holiday break, I spoke with Alyssa Royce, Editor of JUSTCAUSE about non profits, the internet and the social networking (full disclosure: they are one of our clients, and I worked with them on the site which launched at the end of the summer). Alyssa was researching an article on nonprofits and social networking for the GuideStar newsletter. Among the points i discussed with Alyssa was the need to dedicate appropriate and sufficient resources to a web strategy in order to achieve the goals of your web strategy: • Set a budget. Once your expectations are defined, it can be helpful to look at those expectations as a job description for your Web site. As such, you need to dedicate time to social networking. Budget time to feed your on-line community, and it will reward you. Even if you are not building your own site, you need to devote time to the care and feeding of your on-line communities. That article is worth a read for anyone looking to establish a web presence, and those looking to take advantage of social networking and social media on the...
by gregoryheller | Jan 4, 2008 | Uncategorized
CivicActions has been a proud sponsor of all manner of Drupal events, most recently our Gold Sponsorship of DrupalCon in Barcelona, September 2007, but also Drupal Camps in New York, Seattle, Toronto and Berkeley. Last year when the Drupal Association started accepting donations a number of our partners and contractors made donations. Yesterday CivicActions became an Organizational Member of the Drupal Association. We look forward to continuing to work within the Drupal community and with other members of the Drupal Association to support the growth and improvement of the Drupal...
by gregoryheller | Jan 2, 2008 | Uncategorized
GOOD Magazine’s January/February 2008 IDEAS! issue features the WITNESS Video Hub.
by gregoryheller | Jan 2, 2008 | Uncategorized
As folks might know, I’m a bit of an eco-geek. I’ve been talking about my carbon footprint for a few years now and can remember when it might cause someone’s eyes to completely glaze over. But then we learned about An Inconvenient Truth, a new island was discovered after part of Greenland’s ice sheet melted, and Al Gore and the IPCC one the Nobel Prize. We all know that the Climate Crisis has entered the mainstream with more than a handful of websites offering to offset your carbon footprint, regular news coverage about the fate of our planet and many presidential candidates pushing major climate related plans. All the while I’ve been tallying my carbon footprint based on my air travel, and 2007 was a big year for me. Nearly 70,000 miles covered (or about 10% shy of the circumference of earth). I traveled for business, pleasure and family, 36 legs in all and have calculated the associated carbon emissions to total about 28,400 pounds or just over 14 tons. Of course my total carbon footprint is larger and includes my household generated carbon, consumer generated carbon and automobile generated carbon emissions. On that last note, I don’t drive very much, personally don’t own a car, but do have the guilt habit of riding vintage scooters every once in a while. I bought a Terrapass earlier in the year to more than cover my girlfriend’s car (which i use sometimes) and figure it would also probably cover my scooter and motorcycle riding as well as minimal car share use (I’m a zip car and flex car member, and now...
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