I first came across this “technographic ladder” idea in a AMA web workshop in New York. Charlene Li explained that not all of us interact with website in the same manner, nor we can expect all of our users to be engaged in the same way. In her book, Groundswell there’s a whole chapter dedicated [...]

1. CHOOSE A SIMPLE THEME: I experimented with 7 different themes for my blog and messed it up quite a few times in the process. I ended up with this plain super simple template and then just played with the font. I recommend you start by thinking what you want and then spend sometime looking [...]

MCDM alumni Jac de Haan stars in this video and explains to fellow high-school teachers and youth organizers how pugetsoundoff.org is an “open community for teens to express their views — with multimedia.”

Pugetsoundoff.org takes on a interesting challenge: can we get teens to engage in advocacy by giving them a public space to debate their [...]

This summer I’ve been delving into exploring wordpress.org as a publishing tool for not just blog, but small business sites and portfolio. And I’m happy to report that wordpress.org is a fantastic and super flexible platform! This is not new, I know but I believe that wordpress.org is really exploding way beyond any other blog [...]