Blogs

This weekend, a new episode of Live from Main Street will be taped in Miami. The show will focus on the economic crisis, and will be produced by The Media Consortium in partnership with the Miami Workers Center. The episode will be posted to YouTube and embedded on the Live from Main Street site.

The Tibet Poverty Alleviation Fund has launched a new online store, the Dropenling Tibet Handicraft Development Center, a social enterprise dedicated to improving the lives of Tibetan artisans throughout Tibet by selling only unique, high quality handicrafts made in Tibet, by Tibetans. Lightbulb First developed and launched the online store for TPAF, using the Drupal 5.x platform and the Drupal eCommerce module.

As the 2008 Unitarian Universalist General Assembly begins, Welcoming Websites is proud to announce the launch of the new website for the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee. The new website reorganizes UUSC's content around four high-level navigation menus, and allows visitors to learn a great deal about UUSC's four focus areas, its membership engagement activities, and its wide range of human rights advocacy resources.

We are pleased to announce the launch of Rebooting America, a project of long-time Lightbulb First client Personal Democracy Forum. At Rebooting America, users are encouraged to submit essays which answer the following prompt:

Welcoming Websites today announces the launch of the new site for the Universalist Unitarian Church of Riverside. The new site will help UUCR reach out to prospective visitors, provide its members with important information, and gather feedback from website visitors. With the new site, UUCR's site includes a Sermon Archive, Minister's Blog, and a variety of other useful features.

Today Welcoming Websites launched the new site for the Unitarian Universalist Ministers Association. Launched in coordination with the UUMA's drive to register members for its annual Ministry Days, the new site will help UUMA members share information and connect with one another. It will also help members and staff achieve many common tasks, like archiving and retrieving documents, more efficiently and quickly.

Drupalcon 2008 kicked off this morning in the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center. Shelby and I have been busily running around, meeting with friends we've made throughout the Drupal world and learning a lot of interesting things.

Today I'm sitting in the Knight Foundation panel (and, of course, I can't get the wireless network for some reason, so this will be a bit of a link-free post). I've been fascinated by Knight for a while now, because it is a great example of a non-profit organization seeding new experiments in the world of for-profit journalism.

Next week, Shelby and I will be attending Drupalcon, the foremost international conference for Drupal users, developers, designers, and consumers. The program looks fascinating, and we can't wait to see what's brewing in the Drupal world. I'm also looking forward eagerly to the Drupal Code Sprint, taking place at that architectural marvel known as the MIT Stata Center.

Earlier this month, Lightbulb First and Welcoming Websites co-founder Shelby Meyerhoff begain writing for UU World and Street Prophets.

UU World is the most well-known publication for Unitarian Universalists. Shelby's writing at UU World covers ongoing debates and discussions in the UU blogosphere. Her weekly blog and quarterly column is called The Interdependent Web.

Today Welcoming Websites is proud to announce that the website for the First Parish in Cambridge, Unitarian Universalist, has been upgraded to Drupal 5. Shelby is a member of this church, and we've been providing pro-bono work on this site for quite some time. It's great to see the site continue to grow and improve over time.