Kayla's blog

When I need quick facts on Internet usage and how the Web is shaping our world, I turn to the Pew Internet & American Life Project. An initiative of the Pew Research Center, Pew Internet explores the "impact of the internet on children, families, communities, the work place, schools, health care and civic/political life."

Pew Internet Project reports are primarily based on national telephone surveys but also draw from qualitative research methods and data shared by their research partners.

Reports and Presentation topics include:

In the 2008 CMS satisfaction report by NTEN, a Non-Profit Technology group, Drupal received very high marks. This is great news for us since we recently decided to make the shift to Drupal rather than building our own CMS. Apparently, we’re not the only ones who have embraced Drupal. NTEN evaluated hundreds of nonprofit groups using a wide array of CMSes like Plone, Joomla, Convio, Blackbaud, and Antharia. Drupal had the highest number of responses and the highest number of respondents using Drupal as their primary CMS.

I'm always looking for novel and inexpensive ways to get user feedback, especially for our non-profit clients. Formal online survey tools offer organizations an in-depth look into the users' minds, but many are expensive and time consuming to create and execute. Here are a few crowd-sourcing sites I’ve found to supplement my user-research toolbox:

Ask500People

To Ning or Not to Ning - that's the question around here. Who has the time to join (or start, for that matter) another social network? I have enough trouble finding time to twitter.

The subject did come up in a marketing meeting the other day and while some of us thought Ning was dead there were others who thought it just might be gearing up to take over as one of the best advertising opportunities out there.

I may just be one of them.

Everyone here at LevelTen is VERY excited that NationalBreastCancer.org is one of five nominees for Best Charitable/Non-profit sites that "empower and educate people, facilitate civic participation and enable learned pursuits." Working on a project that educates and gives hope to those affected by breast cancer was incredibly rewarding...and quite challenging at times.

I'm back in the office today after a whirlwind trip down to Austin for the SXSW Interactive Festival, and I'm getting LOTS done since most of the office is still down there. This quote from Jason Fried of 37Signals really struck a cord...

Interruption is the enemy of productivity; a fragmented day is not a productive day.

Did you know you could support your favorite charity just by searching the Internet? You can if you use GoodSearch.com, a search engine powered by Yahoo. When founders Ken & JJ Ramberg realized that search engines generated nearly $4 billion in advertising revenue, they started their own, aiming to donate 50 percent of the profits to charity.

The last thing I want to do when I'm sick is go to the doctor. Scheduling an appointment when you need one is almost impossible. Then sitting in a waiting room of coughing patients watching a parade of drug reps go in ahead of you only adds insult to injury. It's no wonder so many people completely avoid the doctor and forego preventative health care.

I'm loaded.It's official.I'm the 39,615,049 richest person on earth!

Websites like Monster and Craigslist handle a large share of recruitment for skilled workers. But most jobs that need to be filled require very little training at all. And finding good store clerks, housecleaners, dishwashers and other menial workers can be as hard as a finding a good lab technician or XML programmer, even in developing nations. That's because those seeking work frequently have no means of connecting with those wanting to hire. It's a problem Babajob, based in Bangalore, hopes to solve.