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Knowledge As Power :: Seattle Net Tuesday Notes
Below are my notes from one of five presentations at August's Seattle Net Tuesday. Notes from each presentation are a separate blog entry. Sessions were limited to five minutes, so I followed up with presenters as needed. -- Brian Glanz
Knowledge As Power
presentation by Executive Director Sarah Schacht
Knowledge As Power offers citizens accessible information on legislative action and education for participating in the legislative process. A preview of their services is already available, although as an organization they are just a few months old.
Sarah has been able to personally publish the current version of their web site for a low cost and with little technical experience. She updates the site herself and she has depended on it for live video presentations, critical and successful first impressions, and even for fund raising.
How did she pull it off? With iWeb from Apple. With iWeb and about $75 in an iWorks Suite, plus Emma for email marketing at about $24 per month, Sarah's young organization has a simple, sustainable, and professional online presence.
Other Net Tuesday attendees mentioned that Windows Live Spaces was catching up, including that they offer a free domain as Apple does with iWeb. However, it was also mentioned that Live Spaces also still has issues with the increasingly popular Firefox and other Mozilla browsers.
For online donations, Knowledge As Power has made good use of a PayPal button, the code for which is provided by PayPal.
Sarah recommends the iWeb and Apple technologies to anyone wanting to get something started online, without too much technical fuss -- provided you own or can easily access a Mac computer.
Try Knowledge As Power's legislation-tracking web site! (alpha version for now!)
Brian Glanz
Knowledge As Power
presentation by Executive Director Sarah Schacht
Knowledge As Power offers citizens accessible information on legislative action and education for participating in the legislative process. A preview of their services is already available, although as an organization they are just a few months old.
Sarah has been able to personally publish the current version of their web site for a low cost and with little technical experience. She updates the site herself and she has depended on it for live video presentations, critical and successful first impressions, and even for fund raising.
How did she pull it off? With iWeb from Apple. With iWeb and about $75 in an iWorks Suite, plus Emma for email marketing at about $24 per month, Sarah's young organization has a simple, sustainable, and professional online presence.
Other Net Tuesday attendees mentioned that Windows Live Spaces was catching up, including that they offer a free domain as Apple does with iWeb. However, it was also mentioned that Live Spaces also still has issues with the increasingly popular Firefox and other Mozilla browsers.
For online donations, Knowledge As Power has made good use of a PayPal button, the code for which is provided by PayPal.
Sarah recommends the iWeb and Apple technologies to anyone wanting to get something started online, without too much technical fuss -- provided you own or can easily access a Mac computer.
Try Knowledge As Power's legislation-tracking web site! (alpha version for now!)
Brian Glanz
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