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WooCommerce: E-commerce Made Simple
September, 28 2011 Comments
One of our favourite purveyors of WordPress themes (that is, design templates) - WooThemes - has just announced a series of e-commerce products.If you're currently using WordPress to power your website and want to start selling products (whether tangible or digital/virtual), this might be a good option for you.
Their new e-commerce tools include:
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Prevent client frustration by reducing downtime
September, 26 2011 CommentsWe've all been there, the phone rings and suddenly it's panic stations. A client site is down, they're panicing and are very upset, and we have to drop everything to find out what's happening. This doesn't happen often, but when it does it puts the client and the whole dev team in a spin. It certainly not predictable, it's somewhat preventable, and it's completely frustrating.
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Curious for a Living at the Pacific Northwest Drupal Summit
September, 26 2011 Comments
I'll be in Portland next month for the Pacific Northwest Drupal Summit, and I'm looking forward to geeking out on Drupal, open-source and web development for a couple of days in beautiful Oregon. -
Testimonials & Persuasion
September, 22 2011 CommentsI attended the Social Media Week session on Social Good yesterday and a few of the presentations, in particular one given by Melissa Dingmon, got me thinking about concrete ways non-profits can use Social Media tools to help persuade individuals to join their communities.
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Better Questions, Better Websites: Free event for Vancouver web designers
September, 19 2011 CommentsI'm excited to have been invited to speak to the Vancouver Webdesign Meetup group this week on a topic that's close to my heart: Asking better questions. In this talk, I go beyond widgets and code, and deeper than site architecture and design - to the root of what drives human interaction, and should drive technology decisions as well: function, meaning, delight and evolution.
The event takes place Wednesday, September 21 at 7:00 pm. More details here.
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Measuring Your Organization's Facebook Impact
September, 12 2011 CommentsIf, like me, you're skeptical of the simple numbers like "# of followers" or "3 of likes" on Facebook and want to be able to dig a little deeper into what kind of an impact your organization's Facebook presence is having, I highly recommend taking 10 minutes to read Mari Smith's summary in her post How to Measure Your Facebook Impact.
Mari gives a great overview to help you dig a little deeper into the effect your Facebook Page could be having on your organization, covering things like:
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Text message your Drupal site
September, 8 2011 CommentsIn May, while speaking at and attending the Make Web Not War conference in Vancouver, I met up with Adam Kalsey from Tropo and attended his talk outlining how his messaging service, called Tropo, can be integrated with Drupal. I came away with tons of ideas on how to use this service to do neat things with Drupal. I decided to start with some low hanging fruit. We currently have a module for Drupal that plugs into the Webform module and allows users to enter their postal code and return information about their local Member of Parliament (MP) in Canada. This module communicates with the API at howdtheyvote.ca to return all the necessary MP info, such as:
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Social Media for Nonprofit Boards
August, 18 2011 Comments
Update: Our slide deck, and a full recording of this presentation, are now available for viewing - just scroll down to the end of this post. Like many of my colleagues here at Raised Eyebrow, I sit on a couple of nonprofit boards in my spare time - and one of the things that's been rewarding for me when I wear that hat is that I can bring some web-geeky expertise to the table and help my fellow board members understand how they can leverage their online networks as well as their offline ones, to support the causes we're involved in. -
Redesigning Your Website? What You Need to Know
August, 15 2011 Comments
Update: Our slide deck, and a full recording of this presentation, are now available for viewing - just scroll down to the end of this post. So, it's the thirteenth time you've come up against the limitations of your current website, and you feel like you're hitting your head against a not-very-forgiving wall. Maybe it can't support multimedia the way you want it to. Or you really need an events calendar, but you've been hacking your blog as a sort of workaround that doesn't really cut the mustard. Or hey - maybe it just looks dated, and that shade of yellow you all loved five years ago is looking tired. You know it's time for a redesign. -
Getting Your Message Out During an Election
August, 9 2011 Comments
Update: Our slide deck from this presentation is now available for viewing - just scroll down to the end of this post. In the nearly 12 years Raised Eyebrow has been in business, we've seen quite a few elections - federal, provincial and municipal - come and go, and with them an abundance of excitement, chaos, and hope for positive change. As a new season of elections looms this fall, we're taking some time to share what we've learned in working with nonprofits and other mission-driven organizations to get their stories and priorities on the table at a time when poll results and politicians' dirty laundry are dominating public discourse.
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