To all of our readers, clients, colleagues and friends, we wish you the best this holiday season and a happy 2010.
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To all of our readers, clients, colleagues and friends, we wish you the best this holiday season and a happy 2010.
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The Bivings Group is proud to announce, after much difficult deliberation, that Critical Exposure has won the TBGives $10,000 web consulting prize.
Critical Exposure uses the art of photography to teach DC youth imperative lessons about art and community [...]
Two panels here at The Bivings Group have pored over more than 50 submissions from fantastic non-profit organizations all over the Washington, D.C. area and narrowed our search down to six finalists.
Due to the heavy competition between all of the applicants and the excellent qualifications of our six finalists, [...]
During last year’s election cycle, I worked as the Online NewsHour’s associate editor for the Vote 2008 site, and while the site and show changed considerably during my year and a half there, bold revisions on the site today (and soon, the show) demonstrate an invigorated energy at the [...]
The Bivings Group would like to thank all of the non-profit organizations that submitted applications for TBGives’ $10,000 web consulting award.
We’re happy to report we received over 50 applications from worthy businesses small and large from across the Washington, D.C. area.
Our judging panels are currently reviewing [...]
The Bivings Group powers the Personal Democracy Forum website and is proud to run Twitterslurp, a Twitter hashtag aggregator tool being used by those attending and monitoring this year’s European Personal Democracy Forum Conference, currently being held in Barcelona.
Use #pdfeu to join hundreds of attendees of [...]
In 2006, a popular study by experts at Duke University and the University of Arizona concluded new technologies have been making loners of us since 1985. Earlier this month, this theory was challenged and perhaps debunked. New technologies actually [...]
New media journalists around the globe face technological barriers and increasing dangers when reporting from within the boundaries of protective governments. A new site by Global Voices Advocacy maps and tracks journalists who have been threatened or arrested and aggregates the information into a robust map database with real-time [...]
The Bivings Group is proud to work with the Washington Area Women’s Foundation, which held its annual leadership luncheon Tuesday. The luncheon featured more than 1,000 guests at Washington’s Grand Hyatt to recognize the supporters and partner organizations [...]
The Bivings Group’s Director of Client Services Andrew MacDowell will be speaking at the Association of American Political Consultants conference Monday to address the success and strategy behind social action networks such as the one built around the Pickens Plan.
The conference, [...]
The Federal Trade Commission Monday released revised regulations holding bloggers responsible for disclosing any freebies or payment associated with their writing.
“The post of a blogger who receives cash or in-kind payment to review a product is considered an endorsement,” the FTC said in a statement. “Thus, bloggers who make [...]
“Usability” is a word used ad-nauseum in the web development world. Since most of us spend all day navigating and constructing sites, it’s easy to assume just about anyone can be an expert in usability if they’re even half aware of what makes a good or bad site.
Smashing Magazine, however, [...]
The Bivings Group this week launched OurIdaho.com , a site by the Idaho Freedom Foundation aimed at increasing government transparency in Idaho by displaying the state’s expenditures.
The site is broken into state expenditure records and employee salary records. State expenditures are documented [...]
Here at The Bivings Group, we’ve dealt with a myriad of requests for mass emailing services, tools and strategies to help our clients make the most of what is the most powerful weapon in online advocacy. Based on our research and testing, here are some best practice tips for [...]
Efforts to boost robot-to-robot cooperation took a giant step during July’s International Joint Conference in Artificial Intelligence, when roboticists around the world decided to start with human-to-human cooperation.
The science of developing robots, though narrow, was surprisingly fractured until the development of the Robot Operating System (ROS).
“Each robot is [...]
A shiny new NPR.org revealed itself Monday with a simpler homepage design packed with multimedia features and customizable choices.
Like most major media websites still afloat, NPR.org aims to keep radio content its core but offer up multi-platform, all-purpose news.
The new site is a major improvement to [...]
Click fraud, an internet crime perpetrated by people, automated systems and programs clicking on links and ads to increase investor appeal and ad revenue, continues to be complicated to police, and a report released Thursday by Anchor Intelligence shows Vietnam as a hotbed for online scammer activity.
“Nearly half of [...]
Hoping to compete with emerging foreign markets and prevent another major industry collapse, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Tuesday the city’s launch of eight initiatives aimed and drawing and keeping new media technologies in the Big Apple.
“New York City is the media capital of the world, but, with [...]
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Watch the introductions for The Pickens Plan’s Heather Lauer and The Bivings Group’s Todd Zeigler during their panel discussion at the Personal Democracy Forum conference this week.
[...]Todd Zeigler of The Bivings Group, Heather Lauer of the Pickens Plan and Fission Strategy’s Roz Lemieux discuss how social action networks are changing politics in a panel at the Personal Democracy Forum conference moderated by the Washington Post’s Jose Vargas.
[...]Guest post by David Cohn
Michael Wesch gave an amazing talk at PDF that I dare not try to summarize.
I will point to an anecdote that Wesch used to give insight into how our cultural conversation is changing all the time.
The word "whatever" has morphed over the years.
Guest post by Alan Haburchak
The morning of day two here at the Personal Democracy Forum conference was all about online communities, what they mean, how they can be used and what they say about culture and global culture and society today. Randi Zuckerberg (the other Zuckerberg), Facebook's head of [...]
Guest post by Alan Haburchak
The morning of day two here at the Personal Democracy Forum conference was all about online communities, what they mean, how they can be used and what they say about culture and global culture and society today. Randi Zuckerberg (the other Zuckerberg), Facebook's head of [...]
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Catastrophic battles have already begun and loom large on the horizon between traditional hierarchal powers and the growing trend of lateral power structures, according to the University of Sydney’s Mark Pesce.
Pesce spoke at the Personal Democracy Forum on the reasons hierarchal structures will lose out to hyperintelligent ad-hocracies unless they [...]
Ning’s Gina Bianchini talks to Personal Democracy Forum attendees about working with The Bivings Group on The Pickens Plan’s social action network. Video by Alan Haburchak.
[...]Guest post by Alan Haburchak
It seems like there is a certain generally accepted truth about age and ideology in America: Young people are liberal and vote Democratic while the older generation tends to trend more conservative. There's even that old chestnut usually attributed to Winston Churchill: "If you're young [...]
Search engines meet social networks in Hunch.com , while Bing.com delivers fewer search results with higher relevance – welcome to decision engines.
Flickr creator Caterina Fake Monday launched Hunch.com, a search engine guiding users to their ideal sites and products for searches on business, travel, shopping and [...]
Twitter was barely off the ground before companies and programmers were looking for ways to monetize it, and a new tool by 83 Degrees has found a new way to do that.
The tech company on Sunday launched Super Chirp, a subscription-based service allowing Twitter users to require [...]
President Obama made his way into office with a tech savvy campaign team and promises to use new technologies to change the way government gets its job done. With the campaign over and the administration under way, shifting rhetoric into action has happened in notable ways but also raised major [...]
President Obama made his way into office with a tech savvy campaign team and promises to use new technologies to change the way government gets its job done. With the campaign over and the administration under way, shifting rhetoric into action has happened in notable ways but also raised major [...]
Those of us familiar with rat race involved in nabbing a coveted internship at a well-known news organization know all too well the pressure of stacking your best clips, skills and assets against a sea of competitors.
Those who do get through are usually more than grateful to be working [...]
Incoming freshman at the University of Missouri’s journalism program need to come armed with either an iPod Touch or an iPhone, based on new requirements by the school’s dean.
A statement from the University says the main purpose of the requiring the device is to give students access to downloadable [...]
While Facebook dominates U.S. social networking, similar international platforms are keeping a global monopoly on virtual social life out of reach for the California-based company.
Last year, Facebook sued German social network StudiVZ for violating copyright laws, mimicking its logo, features and service, according to German website, [...]
The Bivings Group attended the Politics Online 2009 conference in Washington, DC, earlier this week to listen to and participate in a large-scale dialogue on how technology is and is going to change the political landscape. Here are a few important lesions I learned.
1. Politicians are getting technical
Actual [...]
Bivings Group Director of Client Services Andrew MacDowell spoke to a panel focused on gaining and utilizing a large supporter base for initiatives online. The panel, titled “Fishing with a Keyboard,” was one of dozens of break-out sessions included in the 2009 Politics Online conference held in Washington DC [...]
Energy advocates and online mobilization experts gathered at the Center for American Progress Action Fund in Washington, DC, to talk about successes and challenges in gathering activists both on and offline.
Heather Lauer, director of online strategy for the Pickens Plan, talked about the process of gathering the Plan’s [...]
While Amazon is way ahead of the competition in the race for control over the soon-to-be billion-dollar e-reading industry, the game has just begun, and major players entering the field might make for a much more interesting battle.
Barnes and Noble, whose business has been slipping over the past [...]
So far this year, the Pickens Plan has gathered the nation’s most powerful names in energy reform for an incredible energy summit and recruited over three million people for this week’s huge Virtual March on Washington for energy independence.
This past weekend, however, was about celebrating what the [...]
Movies, TV shows and podcasts have been readily available online for years, and as syndicating content becomes even easier, internet users can get even almost anything online – but full college courses?
That’s the goal of Academic Earth, an online hub featuring full video lectures and entire courses from some [...]
The week of President Barack Obama’s inauguration, the Pew Center for Excellence in Journalism launched its New Media Index.
The NMI is a partner project to its News Coverage Index, which tracks the top five stories across traditional, U.S., print-based media on a week-to-week [...]
The Bivings Group took another look at The Use of the Internet by America’s Largest Newspapers , and compiled a list of 2008’s top ten Newspaper sites. Newspapers selected were among the 100 largest in the U.S., and in addition to being judged by their abundance of web [...]
