5 Things To Teach Yourself In Drupal
Tweet We build websites in Drupal every day at the Bivings Group. And every day, we answer questions for clients that are simple, easy things for us to change. Sites built in Drupal are inherently very easy to change and are often malleable to a degree. The problem is that many people see the full-blown...
Crowdsourcing for Conferences:Pros & Cons
You’ve got a ballroom, VIP badges, t-shirts emblazoned with sponsors, a distinctly clever and useful Twitter hashtag, and even check-in locations for your Foursquare-loving visitors. By all accounts, you’ve got everything you need for your big industry conference. However, there’s one thing missing from this picture: content. And that is exactly where all of those...
Tell Us How You Feel: Web Feedback and MoMA
Think back to the last time you went to a museum. Did you walk away changed? Inspired? Disappointed? Maybe you felt the millennially-ingrained desire to express those feelings to your internet following a la Twitter or Facebook. These companies have acquired valuations in the billions due to their ability to capture user feedback and translate...
It Takes A Website of Millions: Popvox and the Modern Congress
Do you want to see change in your community? Common knowledge tells us the action to take when we’ve got a bone to pick; grab the phone and call your senator or congress person. Or, even older wisdom: write them a letter. These methods might have been sold to us wholesale as schoolchildren, but in...
Check Out the Newest Way to Check In
Far and away the largest presence in the current social media market, Facebook has decided to place it’s sizable hand into the growing area of location-based social media.
With a thoroughly-blogged-and-tweeted press conference yesterday at their Palo Alto headquarters, Facebook unleashed the newest addition to their social media arsenal, Facebook Places. A service primarily [...]...
The Age of Fundraising 2.0 Begins
Non-profits and political advocacy groups, while some of the most people-powered and well-supported organizations around, are not necessarily known for being early adopters of web-based tools. Although they are based in interaction with people and causes, the true driving force of organizations such as these always has been and always will be their ability to...
