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What does Permaculture Design have to do with Web sites?

I'm in the process of overhauling this site to reflect the fact that I'm shifting the business's focus toward permaculture design.  There are a number of reasons why I'm doing this:

Engaging our Interdependent Web

Here is the slideshow for the presentation Jessie and I are giving this afternoon at the Prairie Star District Unitarian Universalist Association Annual Meeting in Des Moines, Iowa.

https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dgp4g6j2_439dknbfs32

How to Publish an RSS feed with Feedburner and Facebook

In a previous post I made the case for using RSS feeds instead of email newsletters.  A crucial part of this substitution is to use the free Feedburner service so that those readers who want to receive your news by email can do so.  Then to sweeten the deal, subscribe to the feed on your Facebook page so that each time you post news on your Web site, it shows up on Facebook automatically!  Here's how to go about it:

Top 10 Reasons Email Newsletters are a Bad Idea

At DrupalCon this year, I attended an impromptu meeting of some 50 Web developers who work on church Web sites.  We had an hour to talk about anything we wanted, but we spent the entire time talking about best practices for email newsletters.  The more we talked, the more we came to the conclusion that email newsletters are an ineffective and inefficient method of communication, and that a reliance on email newsletters can blind an organization to better options that are available.

Testing Facebook connection

I'm using the Networked Blogs app for Facebook to import the RSS feed from this site to the Interdependent Web Facebook page.  Let's see if it's working...

DrupalCon Chicago 2011

I won't be posting blog entries from DrupalCon this year, because I anticipate that, as in past years, all the keynotes and sessions will be recorded and posted on archive.org after the conference.  I will be posting on our Facebook page, though, so if you're interested in the highlights, please visit our Facebook page.

No-till gardeing calendar

Are you interested in no-till gardening but wondering how to get started?  Here's an excellent month-by-month calendar that will help make it all seem manageable!

http://organotill.org/calendar/

Writing for Wikipedia

I'm presenting at the Art Therapy 810 (Introduction to Art Therapy Research) class tomorrow at ESU on Writing for Wikipedia.  Here are the slides: https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dgp4g6j2_418dnvr2chk

The students of the class will be creating Wikipedia articles about influential art therapists, since currently there is only one such article!

RDF in Drupal 7 and the Web at large

(notes on a session at DrupalCon 2010)

Lin Clark of DERI Galway, heavy D7 contributor

Databases: the Next Generation

(notes from a session at DrupalCon 2010)

Larry Garfield: Databases: the Next Generation!

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