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Green Surfing - Interview with Josh Berry of Proplaya and the Save the Waves Coalition

jedsundwall — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:00:11 -0400

Josh Berry, an American surfer and activist fighting to defend the Chilean coast, talks to us about how the Internet allows him to be mobile throughout Chile and why Facebook is helping Chileans rally to defend their ocean.

Ashoka's Changemakers and Global Water Challenge Need Your Vote

Changemakers — Fri, 02 May 2008 14:57:53 -0400

Ashoka's Changemakers and Global Water Challenge Need Your Vote in Tapping Local Innovation: Unclogging the Water and Sanitation Crisis

Join us in our search for the most innovative approaches to clean water and sanitation worldwide.

Log onto www.changemakers.net and vote for your 3 favorite finalists. Winners will receive $5,000 in funding and be invited to the global Change Summit.

Your voice is vital. Vote today!

iLoveMountains.org - an online campaign to end mountaintop removal coal mining

Lazyhorse — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 14:59:44 -0400

NC Conservation Network

michaelatmo — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 12:45:30 -0500

Project Screenshot

Supporting organization

North Carolina Conservation Network

URL

ncconservationnetwork.org

Project Description

Over a hundred and twenty environmental and conservation organizations make up the North Carolina Conservation Network. Heather Yandow, the Network's Director of Development and Communication's says that they see their internet presence as a key component of their ability to advocate publically for their concerns. Because of this, they have been willing to take the risk of employing numerous emerging web-based communication techniques on their site.

The Network's website was designed by Netcorps and built on the open-source Plone Content Management System. On each page, readers of the site are able to sign up for emailed Public Alerts. The site also features a blog, updated every workday. Working with internet strategist Matt Gross, they determined that the blog should in some sense offset the less accessible nature of their more technical publications, such as their legislative alerts. The blog entries often feature photgraphs, are not afraid of a little humor, and frequently focus on "lifestyle" aspects of environmental issues. Despite the fact that they manage to post every day, Heather reports that the blog consumes on the average only 30 minutes of staff time per day. An RSS feed is available for the blog as well. The blog is managed directly in Plone; Heather says that while she misses a lot of features many dedicated blogging tools provide, they appreciate the direct integration of the blog and their CMS.

The site also interfaces online advocacy and donations managed by GetActive. Visitors to the site can send letters to state representitives and other decision makers, and make a donation to the Network.

It's a lot of tools. But the organization has no dedicated IT staff. Several of the staff members are responsible for some specific area of the organization's technology.

Two Years of Blogging by Earth Share Washington

marshallkirkpatrick — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 20:12:55 -0500

Earth Share Washington www.esw.org is a federation of 66 environmental organizations around the state. (See the group's profile in Net2 in Action.) ESW focuses on delivering work-place financial donations to its member organizations from supporters around Washington. Their web site has been built using the Movable Type blogging system for the last two and a half years. The Movable Type system has proven very valuable for the organization, increasing their number of page views by a factor of 7 times that of their old site. Because of the limitations of Movable Type, they are now looking into using a full service Content Management System and are inclined to implement the open source system Plone.