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Sweet tasting dogfood…

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One such platform was Typepad. Typepad is a paid service based on Movable Type , a very popular blogging platform, that is proprietary. A few tweaks (mentioned in the previous post,) and I was up and running with all posts and comments intact. Two years ago, there wasn’t a platform that was really ready for that.

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Movable Type goes Open Source

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A ways back, Six Apart promised that it would open source MovableType , their flagship software product, and the software that underlies their TypePad service. This blog (and my personal blog ) were on TypePad for years, and I rather like the MoveableType interface and feature set. Yesterday, they finally released it.

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Welcome to the new blog!

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I’ve moved it off of Typepad, and onto Wordpress. Choosing a theme Migrate the posts and comments (exporting it from typepad, importing into wordpress – all web gui based, very easy. I’ve been rather impressed by how easy Wordpress was to set up and use, and how easy the migration process was.

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Where the gift economy rubber meets the road

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2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 07.20.07 at 9:24 pm I was going to comment your post — gift economies near and dear to my heart – but I had to pop out of the reader and when I landed to see you new design – WOW! Is this typepad? at 10:46 am It is not typepad.

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Varied and sundry

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I decided to move both of my blogs off of typepad, and to other platforms. Also, I’ll be moving this blog soon – probably next week. My main blog is moving to WordPress, this blog is moving over to the Metacentric.org Joomla CMS. I’ll keep you posted on URLs and feeds. {

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What OpenSocial Means

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Update: MySpace, SixApart (LiveJournal, Typepad and the newish social networking blog platform Vox), and Bebo have now all joined OpenSocial. Anyway, OpenSocial is something I’ll be watching, playing with, and writing about as time goes on, and considering what it means for those of us in this sector. at 1:15 pm Open Social !

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Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants

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at 7:44 pm { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Beth 10.31.06 at 1:35 pm And just noticed that you are using the “online status&# widget for typepad and would like to know what you think about that in terms of building community on a nonprofit blog? 3 Michelle Murrain 10.31.06 4 Beth 11.01.06