What's upcoming?
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Sat, 04/23/2005 - 08:29Now, that Meetup has jumped the shark, we need to think about what’s Upcoming.
Upcoming is a new website, where can add events, tag events, and explore the social network of people attending events. Gregory Heller pointed me to this site via a CivicSpace mailing list. It will be interesting to see what sort of interfaces to upcoming emerge out of the CivicSpace community.
I went to Upcoming and found The Personal Democracy Forum was already set up as an event. I was pleased to see that xian had already signed up.
Outcome Management
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Fri, 04/22/2005 - 16:06One of the final sessions at The> Organizers’ Collaborative’s Grassroots Use of Technology Conference was Outcomes Mgmt. & Case Mgmt. for Human Service Organizations: Build, Buy, or Lease?. It started off with some interesting comments about output management and outcome management and went on to clearly lay out a framework for understanding the total cost of ownership (TCO) of different systems.
As an old IT guy, the idea of TCO was nothing new to me. However, the aspects about output and outcome management were particularly interesting to me. How do we know if the projects we are working on, or the technology we are using are getting us the most desirable outcome? We can measure output, the number of people cared for, the number of people who have signed up for a mailing list, or for a website, the number of visits that the website has had, but how do we get better at measuring meaningful change that has come about as a result of our efforts?
Blogging Workshop Originally uploaded by Aldon. Picture from the blogging workshop at Organizer's collaborative, illustr
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Sat, 04/16/2005 - 22:00
Picture from the blogging workshop at Organizer's collaborative, illustrating posting to blogs via Flickr
Organizer's Collaborative Grassroots Use of Technology
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Sat, 04/16/2005 - 07:34If you attended the blogging workshop at the Organizers' Collaborative Grassroots Use of Technology conference, please add a comment below, including a link to your blog if you have, or are starting one, so we can all stay in touch with one another.
Bankruptcy
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Fri, 04/15/2005 - 13:51There has been a lot of talk about bankruptcy recently. A bill is winding its way through congress that would make things even more difficult for people facing bankruptcy. Recently, a friend asked me how I was doing and I quipped that I haven't declared bankruptcy yet, although if the current legislation is going to go through, perhaps I should do it soon. Having spent the past couple years working as a volunteer on various political campaigns, doing work for not for profit, and spending a lot of time with startups that have yet to establish sufficient cash flow to be self-sustaining, my finances are a bit tight.
