• Community Management Presentation » SlideShare
  “David Eaves’ presentation from the Free Software and Open Source Symposium on Community Management as the Core Competency of Open Source”. 45 minutes of gold.
  (tags: online_community community opensource david_eaves)

Wisdom so often comes at the expense of pain, and that pain comes through with agonizing clarity in this blog post by Barry Crimmins. But so does the wisdom… especially in this passage:

I just want some peace and beauty. The world is full of people who want the same thing. Unfortunately many of those people refuse to understand that their peace and beauty is interdependent with everyone else’s. We can’t steal it or outbid others for it. It only comes when we are thoughtful and kind and conscientious. And even then, we are still going to face enormous pain and sorrow because those feelings are original equipment in the human condition.

May peace and beauty be yours, and all of ours, in the coming year. Thanks for reading RobCottingham.ca, and see you all in January!

• Apple – Support – Downloads – MacBook, MacBook Pro Software Update 1.1
  A mere seven weeks of teeth-gnashing, productivity-killing pain after Leopard’s release, Apple fixes a glaring keyboard bug.
  (tags: apple computers laptop leopard macbook osx update fix macbookpro mac)

• WordPress Import
  A new Drupal module that promises to import WordPress blogs, comments and all. I’ll be watching the support threads with my fingers crossed…
  (tags: wordpress drupal wordpress_to_drupal convert conversion module opensource)

• High-Quality Carbon Offsets You Can Trust : Planetair.ca
  Folks from Al Gore to the NHL are using Planetair offsets. Hmm… someone should build them an API.
  (tags: green climate carbon offsets sustainability atmosphere co2)

• Community Associations Institute
  (tags: community-building local civic association sosiproject)

• Getting to First Base: A Social Media Marketing Playbook
  Julie Szabo and Darren Barefoot’s first e-book covers everything from blogging to Facebook from a marketer’s perspective, with handy sample chapters. It’s a lively, fast-paced and engaging tour of the social web with a nice, hard practical edge.
  (tags: book marketing media social web2.0 pr ebook capulet)
• Facebook Sync: add friends’ Facebook profile pics to the OS X Address Book
  A crazy-good idea: sync friends’ FB contact info to your Mac’s address book. (So good that it contravened FB’s terms of use, and the author scaled the contact info back to just photos.) Tricky interface, but great concept. And worked flawlessly for me.
  (tags: facebook mac osx software sync apple address address_book.app api)
• SignatureProfiler Plugin for Mail
  Apple’s Mail.app is great, but its signature support is still weak. Enter SignatureProfiler, which lets you insert variables into your sig that change according to the account you send from. Neat! Donationware.
  (tags: apple email mail.app osx mac software plugin signature free)
• Use some advanced search features in Mail.app
  Search takes a little step forward in Apple’s Mail.app in OS X 10.5 with Google-like terms that let you run searches like “delicioso from:backpack email:dora-the-explorer.com subject:yum”.
  (tags: search mail.app osx mac Apple)

• Going green boosts employee morale
  A case in point of how engaging employees around a shared value – in this case, environmental responsibility – can increase cohesion and morale.
  (tags: environment employee engagement business green sustainability)
• Buryy – News You Can’t Trust
  I went to see if anyone had bought this url, and of course someone had. No activity in months, but the idea’s cute: parody news stories submitted, and voted on, by members of the public. Think Digg meets Slashdot meets The Onion.
  (tags: news parody digg)
• Managing News
  A preview of Development Seed’s Drupal-based news tracker. The “Lite” version will be free for the downloading when it launches.
  (tags: media monitoring pr drupal aggregator development_seed)
• Working With the Enemy? The Challenge of Greening Companies
  WorldChanging on the dilemma activists face: stay outside the system, or work for companies to help them grow green?
  (tags: green corporate ethics environment sustainability)