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Use Ready-to-Wear to Avoid the Custom CMS Albatross
It’s always tempting to be cutting edge and build custom web publishing tools for a new web site. But we've found real benefits to using off-the-shelf content management tools -- especially for a small operation without an in-house web developer.
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Participants Balk at Controversial Topics
It might seem a good starting point for building virtual community when people already know each other in the real one. But for Boulder Carbon Tax Tracker, we've been surprised to find that doesn't seem so true. For many potential users of our online group blog and forums, the risks of speaking about a controversial topic so openly in an online public forum appear just too great. When we launched our project in the summer of 2007 in the wake of the city's approval of a carbon tax to fight global warming, we began with the premise that experts and...
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Boulder's ClimateSmart Lacks Online Community
Why the journalistically independent Boulder Carbon Tax Tracker fills a gap that local government web sites cannot.
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