Sometimes it’s not when you see the light, but when you feel the heat that things change. Here’s the saga of Advomatic’s shiny new site, and what makes it 200% great. When we founded Advomatic on January 1, 2005, word-of-mouth referrals from co-workers at the Dean campaign were already bringing clients to us, so we …
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Click-to-Call at Politics Online Conference: What We’ve Done and Where We’re Going
Earlier this week I got a chance to present and discuss our Click-to-Call tool with a larger audience. We’ve come a long way since the tool’s alpha run with the Dodd campaign and the beta run over the past eight months. To date, progressive citizens have made over 26,000 calls to Congress using our tool. …
Read more »Firefox Add-ons for Productivity
It’s difficult to imagine working on the web without Mozilla’s Firefox and its bounty of fantastic, community-contributed add-ons. Everyone knows about Firebug and a myriad of other add-ons that have cut development and debugging time by huge percentages. But even if you aren’t a coder, there are some fantastic, lesser-known add-ons that will that boost …
Read more »Everything is Miscellaneous
At the Open Media Camp in Denver yesterday, Kevin Reynen (kreynen) got things off to a great start with Overview of Metadata Standards for Video – Why doesn’t it work like a Library? We discussed the difficulties of even agreeing on a standard set of genres for tagging video, from how to decide what genres …
Read more »Media Sprint at Open Media Camp in Denver!
Make sure to attend the Media Sprint Update Panel and join the Media Sprint 2009 at Open Media Camp in Denver, on April 18-19! The presenters of this panel, including Aaron Winborn (aaron), Arthur Foelsche (arthurf), and Alex Urevick-Ackelsberg (Alex UA), will discuss the ongoing efforts of the Media Sprint by the Drupal Media working …
Read more »What to use for test email addresses
I often come across test email addresses that people have created and I’m alarmed. It’s common to see something like yesyes@nonono.com or test@test.com. But beware, these are real domains. Consider the following example. You are working away on your site and you need to create a test admin user and you use something funky like …
Read more »Click-to-Call Tool Nominated for a Golden Dot Award
Advomatic’s Click-to-Call tool has been nominated for a 2009 Golden Dot Award in the “Best Mobile/Text Message Campaign” category. The Golden Dot Awards, organized by the Institute for Politics, Democracy & the Internet, recognize achievement in online politics. The winners will be announced on Thursday, April 16. Click2Call automates the “Call your Representative” activism process. …
Read more »Wall of DrupalCon DC Videos!
Here you go folks, a Wall of DrupalCon DC Videos!
Read more »The dark arts of SEO and why Global Redirect won’t help you
Every now and then a post comes up on Drupal Planet, or somewhere else in the Drupal community describing how the Global Redirect module (GR) is the key to improving your SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and how it will increase your search engine rankings. But don’t be swayed by the SEO voodoo, most sites will …
Read more »Video for Drupal Multimedia Panel at DrupalCon
Here’s the video for the Drupal Multimedia panel at DrupalCon. Presenting were Arthur Foelsche, Alex Urevick-Ackelsberg, and myself. By the way, the dev version of Embedded Media Field now supports Archive.org. Hopefully the Drupalcon site will install the module so we can see all the videos directly from that site; even if not, I’m sure …
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