Monthly Archives: August 2010

  • August 26, 2010

    Using OpenID with Drupal

    By New Signature
    Branding, Website and Database \ Cloud Computing \ Drupal

    One of the concerns that many website administrators managing member-based websites have is losing potential new members during the registration process.  All too often, registration is a tedious and lengthy process for users that is bound to send some percentage of them away from the site, never to sign-up again.  Other times, users get frustrated when they are forced to create a new registration profile for each website they’d like to be a member of.

    Enter OpenID.  OpenID is a decentralized and open standard for authenticating users, allowing them to log on to different websites and services using a single login.  As with many 3rd party services, there is a Drupal OpenID module available for use:  http://drupal.org/project/openidurl (more…)

  • August 25, 2010

    Josh Cohen Blogs About New Signature’s Click2Call Jalapeno App for DIA Salsa

    By New Signature
    Branding, Website and Database \ Products and Labs

    New Signature’s Click-to-Call Jalapeno app for DIA Salsa makes it easy for your supporters to use the power of their voice to advocate for change.  The app connects  your supporters directly to their legislators via phone and the actions stored in Salsa.  We have been excited to have a bunch of organizations already using C2C Jalapeno and recently came across this great blog post by Josh Cohen on Split Atom entitled “Get more supporter action with click2call”.  It provides some great detail on the power of click to call actions and specifically discusses Salsa and C2C Jalapeno.  Excerpt is below and you can read the full post here.

    Automate your supporters’ “call your legislator” actions.

    Do you work for or with an organization that sends out action alerts for supporters to call their legislators, a company or anyone else to ask for their support for LGBT equality? When you do, how many supporters actually take action? I’m guessing the answer is “not enough.” Do you want to increase that number? Is your organization using Salsa / Democracy In Action? Yes? Read on…

  • August 22, 2010

    The “Salsa Scoop” Blog: Salsa Weekly Highlight: Click2Call Actions

    By New Signature
    Branding, Website and Database \ Products and Labs

    Posted on the “Salsa Scoop” Blog on Sunday Aug 22 2010 @ 12:17:54 EDT.

    It’s the “Salsa Weekly Highlight,” your quick hit on what’s new in Salsa to help get the most out of your online program. As always, you can find plenty more news, updates, and conversation throughout the week on SalsaCommons.org.

    Ready to bump up the impact of your online actions?

    Our friends (and Salsa partners) at New Signature have added an amazing tool to the Salsa Market: Click2Call Actions.  Read the full post here…

  • August 16, 2010

    Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1: Microsoft Dynamic Memory

    By New Signature
    IT Consulting and Support \ Microsoft

    As promised, this week we’ll go through the improvements in Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 with respect to “Dynamic Memory”. For the more technically-minded among you, I encourage you to bust out your reading glasses, and head over to read the epic six-part blog miniseries Jeff Woolsey penned recently.

    Finished? Good.

    Now that your eyeballs have glazed over from the technical wizardry, it’s time to focus on a high-level why Dynamic Memory makes sense for your business, and how it integrates well with RemoteFX and Microsoft’s Virtual Desktop Infrastructure VDI platform. (more…)

  • August 2, 2010

    Microsoft RemoteFX: Delivering a Rich, Connected User Experience to the Virtual Desktop

    By New Signature
    IT Consulting and Support \ Microsoft

    Many businesses have, in the past, waited until the first service pack is released before implementing a new client or server operating system. Microsoft’s latest operating systems: Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 have a new service pack that is scheduled to be released shortly.  As a Microsoft Gold Partner New Signature  receives early access to these betas and we enthusiastically take advantage to experiment, learn and gain real world expertise with the improved products.

    We have been extremely excited to be using two of the newest features that SP1 enables: dynamic memory and RemoteFX. Both are game-changing software technologies that expand the functionality of Windows Server 2008 R2 in major ways. Both are meaty topics, so today we are going to tackle RemoteFX.

    RemoteFX is the Microsoft terminology for a series of technologies they purchased two years ago and have been refining since. To get a feel for what RemoteFX enables, it’s helpful to examine the history of virtualization and how companies are looking to maximize their investment. (more…)