Association For Community Networking - Tools

Wireless Summit, SEO and Civic Gardens

Tropology — Tue, 15 May 2007 15:31:50 -0400

Third time's the charm! The International Summit for Community Wireless Networks is a few days away. We look forward to seeing you there.

SEO and the NPO: Grassroots.org has launched a toolkit for Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for non-profits - spread the word.

Civic Garden: The notion of the Civic Garden we've been promoting locally in Chicago (as an evolution of the Minneapolis' "Walled Garden") is being taken up in Minneapolis.

More than a Diversion: 10x10

Tropology — Wed, 24 Nov 2004 02:47:40 -0500

This is something Richard Lowenberg tuned me in to... You can view it as a diversion, but it's more than that. It gives us a means of taking a meta-perspective on the news and media of the moment. It's a creative approach... combining images and words that are washing in upon us. Take a look.

Blogging and Blogger Corps

Tropology — Tue, 16 Nov 2004 21:51:45 -0500

My oblique spin on a recent list discussion.... Thoughts on blogging When one blogs, one always blogs somewhere... So (bear with me as I continue to restate the obvious, and correct me when I mis-state it) one generally blogs within a community of bloggers at some blog site... Now blogging tools have spread so that practically any site can incorporate them... Some sites are all about the blogging activity, but others want the blogging to be the generation of a portion of content, lets say in a puposive member community (Such as AFCN,or RTC)... If one is a member of several communities one often wants to share one's words and thoughts in each of the several...

Identity Protection and the Hazards of the Information Age

Tropology — Wed, 10 Nov 2004 01:38:45 -0500

Recent (and perennial) discussion has touched upon the ethics of network service and content providers that require a significant amount of personal information (and what they do with it), along with reasons some of us may not want to disclose such information, or that we should be recommending the development of community oriented/owned network infrastuctures that take this as a starting point. Concerns for protecting one's identity (and personal privacy) are likely to grow, so there will be an increasing demand for services or technologies that offer some degree/promise of protection.

CyberTimes Navigator

Tropology — Thu, 04 Nov 2004 06:17:30 -0500

"Navigator is the home page used by the newsroom of The New York Times for forays into the Web. Its primary intent is to give reporters and editors new to the Web a solid starting point for a wide range of journalistic functions without forcing all of them to spend time wandering around blindly to find a useful set of links of their own. Its secondary purpose is to show people that there's still a lot of fun and useful stuff going on out there."

Mailing list--Sympa--Open Source tool

acohill — Sun, 17 Oct 2004 16:57:16 -0400

Sympa is an Open Source mailing list tool. Its design highly focuses on customization possibilities and ease of administration. It's features include:

Bulk emailer
Internationalization, translated to 15 different languages
Service messages and web pages defined by templates
Subscriber information stored in a RDBMS (Mysql, Pg, Oracle or Sybase)
Web interface with user and admin features
Different web authentication backends including Single Sign-on systems
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Variety of Forms in Community Networking

Tropology — Tue, 05 Oct 2004 18:22:32 -0400

Sometimes the question of what defines Community Networking arises.

It would be good for us to revisit the topic, ennumerating forms and debating their classification, maintaining attention to our social goals and rediscovering them. But, I'd like to start the topic from the perspective of the variety of forms that are possible and practiced through innovations in technology and human organization. Often, it doesnt require a major leap in the technology available, but rather in openness to different ways of doing, and access to the informative "how" and provision of means without significant barrier to entry. Sometimes the new ways of doing things emerge through the existence of a technology that wasnt even a part of the original concept.

CitizenSpeak Advocacy Tools

Tropology — Sun, 03 Oct 2004 05:07:24 -0400

Tool for coordinating grassroots e-advocacy.

Try ::w.bloggar::

Tropology — Fri, 01 Oct 2004 04:35:19 -0400

I'm testing how some blogging tools work with our Drupal based CMS. If you have a user account on the AFCN site, you can use ::w.bloggar:: to submit your blogs. You can download ::w.bloggar:: here. The following settings worked for me: Blog Tool: MoveableType Host: www.afcn.org Page: /xmlrpc.php