We’ve made a lot of mistakes in our day. While they were happening, we took some notes. We thought about it for a while, and tried again. Here’s where we share our mistakes with you. We don’t know everything, or even most things, but we know a few things.
By Reid on 20 January 2010
Organization: Save Our Seas Foundation Website: http://www.saveourseas.com/ Thoughts: It’s clean and simple. Nice dramatic lead at the top of the page, followed by project breakdowns, and further by more news. I like a website that leads with big and broad and continually breaks down into more detail as you scroll. Organization: Half The Sky Website: http://halftheskymovement.org Thoughts: The clouds are [...]
By Reid on 14 December 2009
This is the least exciting of the web site building posts, and arguably the most important. If you think of a website as an order of eggs benedict, hosting is the english muffin. It’s not sexy, or attractive, and you barely see it under all the delicious stuff, but without it you’re left with a [...]
By Reid on 10 December 2009
I spend a lot of time scouring the web for cool organizations that do great work. Often, I’ll stumble across a site that looks like it’s a 2-person operation running out of the back of 86′ Honda Civic, only to discover that they have 45 employees and a 2 million dollar operating budget. On the [...]
By reid on 27 September 2009
The Global Citizen’s Network is a really interesting organization that takes normal people out of their very normal lives and gets them immersed in indigenous cultures all around the world. Folks travel to Africa, Asia, and Latin America and help on grassroots projects that local people are running to meet their communities needs. Teams of [...]
