DXO » Nonprofit http://www.danielxoneil.com You just found Daniel X. O'Neil Tue, 27 Dec 2011 07:35:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Independent Government Observers Task Force http://www.danielxoneil.com/2008/08/04/independent-government-observers-task-force/ http://www.danielxoneil.com/2008/08/04/independent-government-observers-task-force/#comments Mon, 04 Aug 2008 09:00:47 +0000 DXO http://hireoneil.com/?p=233 I helped organize and participated in the Independent Government Observers Task Force

Municipal Governments (Working Group Chair: Daniel X. O’Neil). This group will focus on issues involved in citizens attempting to build interfaces around municipal government data. Technical issues such as harvesting techniques and presentation techniques will be covered, as will social issues such as negotiating for the release of public data.

Seal of the Great Seal of ApprovalThe conference was sponsored in part by public.resource.org.

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  • Site is built on WordPress and uses the Hemingway theme. Using flexible, feature-filled WordPress themes allows you to stand on the shoulders of giants and still make custom sites that meet specific needs
  • Uses the WordPress Contact Form plugin– very simple to configure, but places in-line styles on every site page. Great for a quickie site like this
  • Installed the FAlbum WordPress plugin,  which uses the Flickr API to deliver images from a specific set in my Flickr account. The result are easy-to-update photo albums that are embedded into the main website but served offsite.
  • Encourages people who’ve purchased art from Andy Kane to upload to Flickr and tag with “andykane“– using free, offsite tools to develop community, build interest, and increase search engine optimization
  • Uses a free TypePad weblog to publish Andy’s poetry book, American Radio Waves. TypePad design mimics color, font, and other styles of the main site w/o needing a new WordPress install. The right tool for the right job

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]]> http://www.danielxoneil.com/2006/08/25/dozens-of-classroom-sites/feed/ 0 Queen of Angels Parish Website http://www.danielxoneil.com/2004/12/29/queen-of-angels-parish-website/ http://www.danielxoneil.com/2004/12/29/queen-of-angels-parish-website/#comments Wed, 29 Dec 2004 22:30:43 +0000 DXO http://hireoneil.com/?p=50 Queen of Angels Catholic Parish ChicagoIn 2004 I implemented an innovative, sophisticated website system for Queen of Angels Catholic Parish in Chicago, IL. The strategy uses an emerging technology—the TypePad hosted weblog solution—to deliver 20 separate websites at various URLs with over 30 content managers. This strategy is relevant for any large organization with lots of people and a wide variety of missions (to coin a term).

  • Created a large, 300-page website that is easy to maintain
  • Designed and rolled out training to dozens of content contributors, many of whom didn’t even have an email account when the project started
  • Conceived of this mildly chaotic, trust-based content management system that gives the right to publish directly into the hands of the people who have the content
  • The site is published in both English and Spanish when available
  • Different designs for different URLs
  • All in one $15/ month tool

With just a little bit of imagination, it’s not hard to see how the structure of this site—a centrally maintained main site with n number of subsites that surround it—can be applied to the corporate structure.

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