Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Welcome SoapBlox to the family
SoapBlox is a blog platform built to enable online community participation. Not only does it do what Wordpress and Blogger do, but a SoapBlox blog allows community members to easily publish their own content.
Especially popular among political bloggers, SoapBlox powers nearly 150 influential sites like Pam's House Blend, Burnt Orange Report, Minnesota Campaign Report, and the official blogs of many state Democratic parties and progressive organizations. Here's the complete list of SoapBlox sites.
As CEO Chris Dykstra explained on the SoapBlox blog:
We took over hosting and system administration duties from Paul a little over two years ago. Our work with it grew to the point purchasing the platform seemed like a logical extension of our work. We couldn't be happier to about the development. It is especially important to us that we keep this community of content creators up and running...
Warecorp, along with its sister organizations, Zanby and The UpTake, works to build more connected, more informed, more sustainable communities. In that regard, SoapBlox is joining an extended family of 80 employees and over 1,000 volunteers with an amazing array of stories to be told.
We'd like to extend a warm welcome to the latest addition to our family.
Labels: blogging, online community, progressive, SoapBlox, the uptake, warecorp, Zanby
Posted by Leif Utne at 3:44 PM
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Monday, February 14, 2011
Happy Valentine's Day from Zanby
We ran across this cool NASA photo of a heart-shaped gas cloud today on Discover's Bad Astronomy blog:
This image is of a region called W5, part of a bigger complex of gas and dust shining 6000 light years away in the constellation of Cassiopeia. The resemblance to a Valentine is remarkable!
What you're actually seeing here is an enormous star-forming factory 150 light years across. Deep in its (haha) heart massive, hot, and bright stars are being born. When they switch on for the first time, they blast out a flood of ultraviolet light as well as a fierce wind of subatomic particles. These eat away at the cloud from the inside-out, forming an enormous cavity. It's the edges of this cavity that form the cosmic valentine.
We're especially fond of cosmic imagery like this because nothing illustrates nature's habit of forming groups (and groups of groups) better than galaxies -- which are groups of star systems, which are groups of planets and asteroids, which are groups of... you get the picture. We look forward to continuing to work with you building the infrastructure to support movements for a greener, kinder, more prosperous world.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Harvard-Smithsonian CfA
Labels: 350, center for courage and renewal, cotton network, countywide community forums, gov 2.0, rework the world, tax coalition, the uptake, valentine
Posted by Leif Utne at 8:16 PM
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Friday, July 09, 2010
Zanby is Heading to Netroots Nation 2010
Zanby will be showing off the latest version of our unique community organizing platform, including client sites like Rework the World and The UpTake.
Warecorp is a full-service web design, development and hosting provider. Among its many social change-oriented clients, Warecorp hosts Soapblox, the blogging platform that powers many of the Netroots' most important haunts, like Open Left and Pam's House Blend, and does custom Drupal development for organizations like 1Sky and 350.org.
Mobile Roots is the engine behind the Margaret for Governor app, a multiplatform mobile organizing app recently launched by the campaign of MN state rep Margaret Anderson Kelliher.
The UpTake, the award-winning video citizen journalism outfit (and Zanby client) that live-streamed gavel-to-gavel coverage of last year's Al Franken/Norm Coleman election recount process, will have a video interview booth where anyone who visits will walk away with a video on whatever they want to talk about. Just tell them the topic and they will interview you and email you your video, including embed code so you can use the video on whatever website you desire. We're calling it 'virtual schwag" and we hope you enjoy it more than the wacky pen from the next booth.
So if you're going to Netroots, drop by and see what this powerful combo of online community, web development, mobile organizing, and video services can do for your org or campaign. Oh, and look out for our soon-to-be-released mobile app, launching in the next few days.
Labels: #nn10, 1Sky, collaboration, community organizing, las vegas, mobile roots, netroots, the uptake, warecorp, Zanby
Posted by Leif Utne at 12:34 AM
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