As I prepare for the Passover Holiday

by | Apr 5, 2006 | Uncategorized

<p>I thought I would share two recent links that came across my laptop recently:</p> <p><a href="http://www.jewcy.com/" target="new">Jewcy</a> carries some kitch apparel with slogans like "Shalom Motherfucker" and "A great Miracle Happened Here" <img src="http://www.jewcy.com/images/sm_b_0202_04.jpg" align="right" /></p> <p><a href="http://jewsrock.org/" target="new">Jews Rock</a> is a website dedicated to ingformation about Jews in Rock and Roll.</p> <p>A bonus link: <a href="http://www.hebcal.com/" target="new">HebCal.com</a> has an interactive Jewish Holiday Calendar. You can pull iCal or ICS feeds into your web or desktop calendar! Never miss Rosh Chodesh again!</p> <p>Some times I come across links and websites on the topic of Judaism or Jewish Cutlure and I tag them on <a href="http://del.icio.us/GregoryHeller/Judaism"...

Web Technology Recommendations For Conservation Voter Leagues

by | Apr 3, 2006 | Uncategorized

Web Technology Recommendations For Conservation Voter Leagues I have written up the following document after speaking with a number of League representatives during the recent Federation Annual Conference. Included below are some ideas, best practices, links and suggestions. Some are basic and for the league that is just getting started, others are geared towards leagues already using the Internet I have to credit the folks I spoke with, you all have great ideas, and are interested and willing to experiment with new technologies to advance your mission. It was really wonderful to talk to so many great people. Audience When thinking about your website content and features you really need to ask who your audience is, and how will they use the site. Possible Audience: New Voters you want to convert to conservation voters Existing Conservation Voters Elected Officials and their staff The Press Other conservation Groups Each audience segment will use your site in different ways. You may decided to focus on one ore more particular segments while ignoring others. This is okay, as long as you are thinking about who you are targeting, and why, and who you are ignoring, and why. Goals and Objectives If you are planning a new web project, like a complete redesign of your website, it is a good idea to engage in an intentional process (rather than accidentally falling into decisions). As part of this process you should think about the Goals and Objectives of your website (these may actually be different than your organization’s goals and objectives. Think about how you might measure these goals, for example: increasing the number...

FEC Ruling on Blogging and the Internet in politics

by | Apr 3, 2006 | Uncategorized

Last week the FEC released a ruling on the regulation of blogging and the use of the internet in campaigns. The ruling has beeen seen as largely positive by the political blogging community. Basically it exempts political speech on the internet through blogs and podcasts from spending limits or regulations that apply to campaign spending while regulating paid advertising. The UPI has a good article about the ruling. I’d love to point you all to the FEC’s website for more information, but 5 minutes of searching there did not turn up any good summary of the new rules. There is not even a press release about the decision. The link above it so the actual meeting where the rules were released and there is an audio file fo the proceedings. Rick Hansen’s Election Law Blog has some coverage and...

NYT: “Politics Faces Sweeping Change Via the Web”

by | Apr 2, 2006 | Uncategorized

The NYT ran a good article on how the internet (blogging, podcasting, etc) are shaking up politics. Unfortunately the piece is a bit shallow and fails to go into great detail about spending on oneline campaigning, or even the recent FEC ruling on blogging. It does owever call attention to the work of John Edwards, John Kerry and Mark Warner to campaign online through blogging and audio and video casting on their campaign websites. The major media buyers better wake up and smell the coffee though… 2006 and 2008 are going to be very different from 04 and 00… more money to the net, less to the...