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I did not truly get a sense of the scope of Howard Dean’s grassroots campaign until I stumbled upon their forum on campaign ad suggestions. Dean and campaign manager Joe Trippi managed to tap what would otherwise be multi-million dollar advertising firm intelligence for free. Actually, they are tapping it for negative money […]

From our friends at University Communications: easier websites/templates for university departments: Stanford Webguide

37Signals is a web design agency that I greatly enjoy. Their designs are always user-centric and beautifully simple. Now they are working on a project called Basecamp, a group project management web application. This app is definitely worth checking out for our implementation of groupsATstanford.
While it won’t launch officially until later this month, they have […]

Recently I’ve been struck by the advantages of working on and storing projects online. For instance, make a presentation in HTML (perhaps using a Movable Type “presentation” template?), which allows you to access it from any computer without lugging your own everywhere you want to show it.
An example of an html presentation is Jeffrey Zeldman’s […]

…and now they are a web service! xFlashmobs aims to help people organize their own flash mobs, and “direct your swarm” to do your bidding. Possible application for groups@stanford?
xFlashmobs.com

Worth checking out? Seems to realte to groups@stanford.
The Changing Web at Stanford

Wynn Hausser, Director of Stanford University Media Solutions, will lead a discussion about ways to create more effective web sites, providing insights into trends, lessons learned, and new approaches within the campus web environment. In his role leading Media Solutions, Stanford’s in-house professional provider […]

Macromedia Central is an alternative to the blog format for groups@stanford…it is proprietary of course, but the project management functionality they demonstrate on their site is pretty impressive.

SCN is using Movable Type to power their site. They know wha’ts up.

From an article by Matt Haughey comes a link to a Movable Type plugin to add RSS feeds to a MT website. This could be useful to add a group’s calendar from eventsATstanford to their site on groupsATstanford…
In other news upcoming.org is still growing–can we automatically harvest their events? I’m thinking like Amazon does with […]


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