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Online community building tools - materials

smokinggoat — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 00:58:25 -0400

I am posting the PowerPoint slides here from my presentation at the CTN conference.

You can use the slides to review what was talked about (or remember the name of a tool you wanted to get back to).

Don't forget that the list of tools reviewed in the presentation (and slides) are also on this list at Del.icio.us (tagged under "ctn2006").

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Beyond Email: Engaging Community Online

smokinggoat — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 15:44:46 -0400

UPDATE: I've finally attached the presentation. And you can find the complete list of resoucrs (ncluding extras not mentioned in the presentation) on my Del.icio.us Spin2006 list.

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Aptech Limited Plan to buy two IT Outsourcing companies

jimsoft — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 02:53:30 -0500

Aptech Limited is making plan to buy two IT Outsourcing companies, one in the American and the other one in India. The American based company does not attach with any type of back office operations in India but the local firm would engage in the BPO and education or training services. In Pune, plans are afoot to ramp up with the learning services division from initially 200 - 400 employees by the end of the year.

The organizations are planning to set up a Business Process Outsourcing and Information Technology training services institute in the city it self. With the short list of three to four locations for this type of centre, which will built on space of 3000 sq ft, said CEO and managing director of the company. It would likely to become operational from next month. So a joint venture with the Malaysian government for IT training facility is also on the anvil For more information on above topic: http://software-outsourcing.netfirms.com/outsourcing-news/

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Software Outsourcing Testing

jimsoft — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 03:53:16 -0500

A company might consider software outsourcing a website's testing for several
reasons...

1. The company may be launching a new site, or a new version of their site, and may feel that most testing tasks can be relegated to offshore provider.
2. The company may not have the resources -- people, skills, software, hardware or time - to perform testing.
3. The project to be tested may be of such as short life span that the company doesn't need any long-term investment in testing processes.
4. The company might want an independent third party to perform the testing, in order to get a more objective view of site quality.
5. The company may even be outsourcing the development and coding for the site, making the outsourcing of the testing a reasonable decision. (Even more reasonable would be a firm that provides the coding and the quality control for its own code.)

The decision to outsource testing needs to be a well-considered decision, because most people who aren't responsible for the testing misunderstand the meanings and scopes of the concepts involved in testing. Two very important issues must be resolved before taking the outsource step: first, the company that owns the website must be absolutely clear about the scope of the job -- including the tasks, processes, and responsibilities -- that they want to hire out; and second, the company must be sure that they are speaking the same "language" as the test firm they will hire.

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"Translate this page" code and test

smokinggoat — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 18:59:32 -0500

I'm categorizing this fairly widely because I think it could be a failry valuable tool for consultants who run their own websites (for marketing and biz dev) and/ or who consult for websites that are trying to reach a broader (read non-English-speakng) audience. I'm also posting this here because I think this (or something like it) could be a very handy tool for Consultant Commons it self, as we try to reach out to a broader audience, and really distribute all of our "knowledge" far and wide.

Please comment if you have found a better implementation of this code (see my notes at the end)

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Content Management Systems

geilhufe — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 14:40:03 -0500

Overview/ whitepaper covering 14 content management systems:

http://contenthere.blogspot.com/2006/01/content-management-problems-and-open.html

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Current Volunteer Opportunities as of 10/25/05

lrp — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 14:00:44 -0400

Interplast, whose mission is to provide free reconstructive surgery in developing countries, would like a mentor to help assess how they can further grow their website and blog.
http://www.interplast.org

Some features that they are considering are:
-live chat
-RSS
-downloadable video
-podcasting interviews with doctors

They currently have a blog:
http://interplast.blogs.com/

They'd like advice on how to streamline the process of their staff uploading content and images from the worksite. (which is often in developing countries)

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Multimedia Resources Toolkit

elio — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 16:06:56 -0400

Web Design

HTML:

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Multimedia Resources Toolkit

elio — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 16:06:22 -0400

Web Design

HTML:

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Helpful Links for e-organizers

webb — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 15:10:57 -0400

[Originally published at lotusmedia.org. This work is published under a creative commons license that is different from the general license on this site.]

This is a list of resources I put together for my colleagues in public affairs before I left Planned Parenthood. I'm not sure if I'll be able to keep it up to date, so I might as well publish it now before it's all stale!

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