April 2008
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The Meaningless Homepage
[Cross-posted in part at the Online Communications Blog] Good article today forwarded to me by Jenny Darrow asking whether sites like keene.edu are becoming increasingly irrelevant as marketing tools. The answer is obvious to anyone that’s ever looked at their Google Analytics: yes, absolutely. You can see this clearly in the statistics — students come Continue reading
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Forums vs. Blog Posts in Ning: A Plea for Unification.
The amount of stuff Ning gets right is impressive, but they’re still blinded by tradition — and few things demonstrate this more than their forum/blog division. Want to know the question my members on my local Ning site ask me most often? “Should I do this as a forum or a blog?” And all I’m Continue reading
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Salamander Crossing
So it’s weird moving from managing a high-profile political community to managing a local information site. One minute you’re spinning your way into the front page of the Washington Post or Wall Street Journal, and the next you’re talking about salamander crossings. But there is a point here, trust me. Salamander migrations occur here in Continue reading
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Citizen Keene
After a very confusing vote on a local school bond, I’ve stepped down from my old project Blue Hampshire, to start a local information site, called Citizen Keene. There were an number of other reasons for stepping down — as a newly promoted Director at a public college, I wanted to move away from being Continue reading
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