http://www.barnraiser.org/ Giving people the tools they need to share knowledge and advance open society through social software. en Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:49:10 +0100 I am very happy to announce the release of Dutch; our knowledge sharing network tool. We stumbled across the idea of Dutch when we were playing a few weeks ago. We were looking at a way to share sn http://www.barnraiser.org/dutch;_our_knowledge_sharing_network_tool_released. tom Tue, 30 Sep 2008 06:21:20 +0200 Prairie is a lightweight OpenID based Internet identity server. Instead of registering at every web site with different username and password combinations you use your identity server to log you in. http://www.barnraiser.org/prairie_our_openid_based_internet_identity_server_released. tom Thu, 25 Sep 2008 09:53:43 +0200 I wanted to find a simple RSS feed aggregation tool that allows people to add RSS and ATOM feeds to a social tool that would aggregate them into a simple web page for a workshop I was running. SIDA http://www.barnraiser.org/rss_atom_feed_aggregation_into_a_single_webpage tom Sun, 17 Aug 2008 18:42:18 +0200 In this article I continue to publish the results of our usability tests along with recommendations for our software development surrounding OpenID implementation. This is a simplified workflow cha http://www.barnraiser.org/openid_usability_part_2:_the_authentication_workflow tom Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:41:24 +0200 I've never been presented to a person who forgot their email address. Quite a claim you may say, but when one presents themselves in business one tends to shake hands and hand over a business card wit http://www.barnraiser.org/openid_usability_part_1:_the_email_address_versus_the_openid_uri tom Tue, 05 Aug 2008 09:54:22 +0200 We have moved our web site today to use Roundhouse; our new social blogging tool. The community is also moved to http://build.barnraiser.org/ and is now built on Dutch; our knowledge sharing environme http://www.barnraiser.org/website_updates tom Mon, 04 Aug 2008 08:58:34 +0200 One of Roundhouse's features (our social blogging tool) is that the content is optimized for Googles search. I just wanted to explain what this means. When Google opened up their search site in the http://www.barnraiser.org/roundhouse_and_optimization_for_googles_search tom Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:03:06 +0200 I've rejected advertising in the past because of two simple reasons. Firstly anyone creating a social website should not have advertising as their primary revenue generator and secondly it does not wo http://www.barnraiser.org/advertising_on_the_barnraiser_website tom Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:45:22 +0200 Many people either working or volunteering for the organisation find useful snippets of information on the web. They in a moment of excitement send out an email to their colleges after which it is pro http://www.barnraiser.org/creating_knowledge_sharing_networks tom Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:24:16 +0200