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How Do You Build A Community Blog?

Submitted by J.R. Logan on September 28, 2011 - 9:35am

Over the last couple of years, United Way of Greater New Haven has been building a community blogging presence. Our theory was that United Way is uniquely positioned as a connector for many area social organizations and community leaders. For this reason a United Way blog would be a natural way to connect more people in the community to these perspectives. We saw it as an efficient way to make the Greater New Haven nonprofit sector a little more transparent and show the community the various perspectives of people working in the field. 

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A Dream Nonprofit Tech Recipe

Submitted by J.R. Logan on February 1, 2011 - 9:13pm

Getting the mix of technologies to fit your organization is a matter of both science and art, which is why a recipe is a useful analogy. You can not create a good recipe if you look at your organizations problems in isolation, you have to step back and look at how the needs interact and how current cost effective technologies can meet those needs. To make this problem even more complex, the system architect must consider the trajectory of technologies and the costs of "changing horses" down stream.

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Something is Brewing with Technology and Change in New Haven

Submitted by J.R. Logan on August 18, 2010 - 10:21am

Everywhere I turn I see people working on socially minded technology projects. 

I first saw the energy lifting in New Haven last year when Matt Kelley(Change.org blogger), Ben Berkowitz (SeeClickFix.com Founder), Jarad Duval (Author of Next Generation Democracy: What the Open Source Revolution Means for Power, Politics, and Change), and myself got together for beers to talk about how we could get more people to embrace the public benefits of changing technology. We hoped that by pooling the brains of the nerds of New Haven we would discover oportunties to work together for positive social change. We decieded that the place to start would be just providing a place for those with the technical skills and interest to explore ideas and innovation without focusing directly tasking out action. We called our group "Social Change and Technology". Our gatherings where and still are informal conversations over pizza and beer. 

While working with others to organize this group, I have been introduced to a surprising number of people working on ideas that will create a positive change in our community. 

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