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Ask Google Why They Canceled Oceana's Ads
	I expect this of the Superbowl but not of Google. The company is evidently censoring ads that are critical of businesses that pollute. I'm blown away by this. And so is the environmental organization whose ads were censored, who are requesting that you Ask Google Why They Canceled Oceana's Ads. Posted: 2/13/04; 3:14:40 PM #

10 Steps to Measuring Web Site Success
	Several people turned me on to Jim Sterne's recent 10 Steps to Measuring Web Site Success. It's fairly generic, but it adopts utterly the right approach: Understand your important relationships and how you want to develop them. Develop metrics for tracking the progress of those relationships. Design to maximize those metrics. Posted: 2/13/04; 3:14:04 PM #

Using Open Source Software in Your Nonprofit Organization
	Michelle Murrain and Katrin Verclas have compiled Using Open Source Software in Your Nonprofit Organization. If you are not already well acquainted with open source, but you're interested in pursuing it because of all the fuss that I and others have been making, this would be a good place to start. Posted: 2/13/04; 3:13:43 PM #

Criminal Dissent

I am someone who believes that all nonprofit organizations are, to one degree or another, dissenting voices in our culture. If they were not, there would be no reason to be a nonprofit because the "free market" would provide, right? Anyway, whether you see yourself as a dissenter or not, Bill Berkowitz's comments on the systematic criminalization of dissent in the U.S. is important reading. Posted: 2/13/04; 3:13:08 PM #

International programmes cooperate on online volunteering
	The UN Volunteers programme and OneWorld International are planning to coordinate their efforts to enhance flow of information through online volunteering. The UN has some great tools and a global reach. OneWorld has opportunities for easy publishing for volunteer editors. I'm looking forward to the content that might come of this. Posted: 2/13/04; 3:12:50 PM #