I've completed my 1st week of work, all done by telecommuting. The work has been tedious -- I've been updating the county service listings and directories in the 4people database, www.4People.org . In the process I learned a little bit of HTML and more about MS Word. Boy, are my eyes swimming!

Comment from Ben Sheldon on July 2, 2007 - 10:19am

Hi Marylin, did you get a tele-orientation? :-) Will you be telecommuting the entire time or is this just temporary?

Updating organizations sounds pretty tedious; too bad to teach you have to do. I hope you're learning a lot though about the process and probably the problems as well. Do you have any ideas yet on how you're going to create a training manual for it?

Keep up the great work!

Well, I'm completing my second week at Aspiration. Monday and Tuesday were very interesting as I got to listen to the free training session we hosted for non-profits.  "Web Sites for Advocacy and Community Organizing: Basics, Essentials, and Best Practices".  It was prepared by Gunner (from Aspiration) and David (from Radical Designs).

 I couldn't help but listen as it took place 20 feet form my desk. :-)  It was incredibly informative and entertaining. We had about a dozen people here, and it seemed like everyone got a lot out of it. 

 Meanwhile, I've been  working on developing a test plan for the Social Source Commons website.  I've been looking for free tools to use for link-checking and QA testing.  I think I have a good plan, but if anyone has any suggestions I'm all ears.

Comment from danielle martin on October 2, 2006 - 10:51am

Hey Tim,

Did y'all post any resources from that community organizing workshop? I'd love to link to them from this site...

Also, great write up on you on the Aspiration site! Oh and a great plug too for the VISTA Project!

-Danielle

Comment from Tim Wescott on October 3, 2006 - 7:16pm

The slides from the presentation will be up on Aspiration's web site soon. I'll make a new blog entry when that happens.