ein wenig Lektüre für den Volunity Start

Gerade noch ein bisschen Literatur gefunden. Wie wird man ein guter Host :)

If you decide that you are ready to get started, keep in mind that online communities are quite a bit like college parties—you’re inviting a bunch of people you don’t know into your house, and that poses a series of challenges. If you don’t get the word out, you may be the only one there. If you’re not properly organized, your guests will leave before they’ve even introduced themselves. If you don’t keep on top of the party, inebriated strangers may bully your invited guests or trash your living room.

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Understanding Web Design

We get better design when we understand our medium. Yet even at this late cultural hour, many people don’t understand web design. Among them can be found some of our most distinguished business and cultural leaders, including a few who possess a profound grasp of design—except as it relates to the web.

Some who don’t understand web design nevertheless have the job of creating websites or supervising web designers and developers. Others who don’t understand web design are nevertheless professionally charged with evaluating it on behalf of the rest of us. Those who understand the least make the most noise. They are the ones leading charges, slamming doors, and throwing money—at all the wrong people and things.

If we want better sites, better work, and better-informed clients, the need to educate begins with us.

A List Apart: Understanding Web Design

45 Screencasts to Get You Kicking Ass with Drupal – MineZone Blog

Luckily, there are Drupal screencasts for practically every step along the Drupal learning curve, which I’ve collected below. One caveat: because the screencasts are free and produced by a variety of individuals, the quality can vary and some will definitely overlap in what they cover.

45 Screencasts to Get You Kicking Ass with Drupal – MineZone Blog

activeCollab 1.0: bad Plans and high Prices – bye bye AC, hello Projectpier?

activeCollab 1.0: Plans and Prices

With the launch of v1.0 activeCollab, two different “flavors” will be available depending on what you need – activeCollab for businesses and activeCollab Lite for small, non-profit organizations and individuals.

Well its a bit of a pity. With the promise “we will always offer a free version for non-profits” they kept me (as well as many others) interested, reading the blogs feed and subscribing their launch notification mail. Now, reading the latest blog post i get the clue: the promise was just that. Keeping the audience until the product is ready for sale. What Ilija Studen and ActiveCollab is offering Nonprofits is a crippled version that is hardly usable.

Bye Bye AC, Hello Projectpier? (atm: Yes.)