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We Built the Internet Hall of Fame
April, 23 2012 CommentsWhile it's not quite the same as the honour of being inducted, we were pretty thrilled earlier this year when The Internet Society asked our team to build the online home of the Internet Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame site was built to honour some of our greatest heros, the people whose work has literally made our jobs possible like Vint Cerf and Tim Berners-Lee. Also in this year's round of inductees, Mitchell Baker, Open Source advocate and founding chairperson of the Mozilla Foundation, and a woman we have much respect and admiration for here at Raised Eyebrow.
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Responsive Web Design
April, 5 2012 CommentsColin, my esteemed colleague and Raised Eyebrow's Senior Developer, linked to a great article on Twitter last week about responsive web design.
It really struck a chord with us here in the office as it's something we've been thinking about more and more in recent months. Whereas before it was a 'want', it's quickly becoming a 'need' for our clients. Though many of our existing client sites already show pretty well on mobile devices, we are beginning to think about this earlier in our process rather than have it be an afterthought.
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Why we created a new Drupal distribution
April, 4 2012 CommentsSince we pushed the DataPublic distribution to Drupal.org a few weeks ago, a number people have asked the question, "Why did you not use the OpenPublic Drupal distribution as a base?".
There are many reasons we followed the path that we did. I hope to outline a few of them here:
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Reading List
April, 3 2012 CommentsI know it's a short week - which for many means squeezing 5 days of work into 4 - but on the off chance you've got some time on your hands (or over the long weekend if you're so inclined) I wanted to share some interesting reads that I've come across in the last week or so:
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Building the DataPublic DataSet Feature
March, 20 2012 CommentsWe recently launched a Drupal distro called DataPublic. I mentioned in the announcement blog post that it was probably the largest codebase we had worked on at Raised Eyebrow, and that's accurate. The number of custom modules, contrib modules and themes used was definitely up there with some of the largest sites we've built for clients.
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DataPublic - Our Drupal distribution for Open Data
March, 19 2012 CommentsOn Friday March 16th, in preparation for the 2012 Drupalcon in Denver, we launched a Beta version of a Drupal distribution called DataPublic on Drupal.org and GitHub. In conjunction with Microsoft, the distribution is the culmination of many months of work. It is the single largest codebase that we've worked on here at Raised Eyebrow and involved the development of over two dozen custom modules/features.
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Ready or not - the new Facebook timeline format
March, 14 2012 CommentsAlthough we haven't mentioned non-profit tech guru Beth Kanter much here in the past (in fact I checked – we did only once and it was in 2008) her blog is definitely one that's always on our radar. Beth is a frequent contributor to nonprofit technology websites, blogs and magazines and she knows her stuff. So when Beth talks, we should all listen!
In a recent post on her blog, Beth and guest blogger Nancy Schwartz talk about the new Facebook timeline format and how to make the most of it for your organization. The format is optional at the moment (see Beth's profile using it here) but were you aware that on March 30th ALL Facebook pages will be transitioned to timeline? -
Social Media Lessons from A Local Donut Merchant
February, 28 2012 CommentsThere's a great thing happening in my neck of the woods in Vancouver these days, there's a new small business that is enjoying stratospheric success. Cartems Donuts is a lovely small business, started up by three friends, that sells what are frankly insanely delicious donuts using locally supplied ingredients in flavours like Earl Grey, coconut, vegan chocolate and gluten free vanilla. And, as I say, they are super yummy.
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Social Media Tune-up: Losing the Thread
February, 16 2012 CommentsWhile preparing for a presentation I gave to Strathcona BIA members earlier this week, I was speaking with a local small business owner about his Social Media use and how it has helped to support his business. We don't usually talk much about business on this blog, Lauren and I tend to save that for our The Boss of You blog, but the lessons that arose from this conversation are just as relevant to non-profit organizations.
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Using oEmbed to deliver video thumbnails in Drupal
February, 14 2012 CommentsWe've gone to great lengths over the past few years to create a smooth workflow for allowing clients to insert video on their Drupal sites. We're currently working on a Drupal distribution which needs a really straightforward way for embedding video, one that can be achieved by any type of user.
When we first meet with clients we give them two options for video:
- Upload a video file, and an image to use for a thumbnail in listings
- Use a third party service such as YouTube and upload a thumbnail image for listings
1. Upload a video file and a thumbnail image
There are many modules available to allow this to happen.
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