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August 26, 2010
Using OpenID with 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…)
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August 25, 2010
Josh Cohen Blogs About New Signature’s Click2Call Jalapeno App for DIA Salsa
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…
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August 22, 2010
The “Salsa Scoop” Blog: Salsa Weekly Highlight: Click2Call Actions
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…
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July 16, 2010
New Signature Launches Website for Primary Care Progress
New Signature launched the Primary Care Progress website today. New Signature worked with Primary Care Progress to design and build of the website that will help transform America’s healthcare system by providing an online community platform where patients, clinicians and trainees can learn, share, connect, promote, and be inspired. New Signature utilized the WordPress content management system and other third party services, such as MailChimp, to build this dynamic website that utilizes multimedia content, such as video, to communicate its message. The website also integrates with social media, including Facebook and Twitter. -
June 24, 2010
New Signature Presents Two New DIA Salsa Apps: WP Jalapeno and C2C Jalapeno
New Signature has released WP Jalapeno–a free WordPress plugin–that allows you to directly embed DIA Salsa action forms into WordPress websites (we will be releasing a Drupal module shortly). This plugin provides nonprofit organizations with the ability to embed attractive DIA Salsa Action forms directly on their websites. This provides great control, greater relevancy and increased response rates. For the first time you can easily connect WordPress and Salsa, control the look and feel of your Actions through your WordPress theme, and enable custom validation and error styling using JavaScript. Distributed under the GNU General Public License. You can learn more about the plugin and download it at www.wpjalapeno.com. You can also see it in action on the homepage of Food & Water Watch’s Spill the Truth website.
New Signature has also released the DIA Salsa app C2C Jalapeno. This commercial click-to-call app is natively integrated with Salsa and makes it easy for your supporters to use the power of their voice to advocate for change. You can connect your supporters directly to their legislators via phone and each action is stored in Salsa. Features include: Works with all Salsa target types and district types. Create custom call scripts, set maximum budgets and more. Use attractive default theme or create your own. Supporters can leave voicemail for targets instead of getting a busy signal, and the vm can be transcribed. Reporting–collect call status and notes from supporters. View real time usage and measure ROI. You can learn more about C2C Jalapeno and sign up at www.c2cjalapeno.com.
You can also learn more about these at our booth at the Salsa Conference!
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June 21, 2010
Join New Signature at the Salsa Community Conference 2010
The 2010 Salsa Community Conference is this week (June 24 and 25) in Washington, DC at the Woolly Mammoth Theater. New Signature is excited to be attending the conference (and co-sponsoring the Conference After-party). We can’t wait to spend two days collaborating with our fellow Salsa enthusiasts! Register today if you haven’t already. If you are planning on attending, please stop by the New Signature booth. We will be launching two new Salsa-related apps at the conference!For those not familiar with Salsa. Salsa is the Software as a Service communications and advocacy platform made available to nonprofits by DemocracyInAction. DemocracyInAction is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization itself, and believes technology can be a decisive force for social change. DemocracyInAction’s Salsa platform offers small and medium-sized 501(c)3 organizations access to the same online organizing engine trusted by brand-name nonprofits like Oceana, True Majority, and the NAACP.
The conference is being held at the Woolly Mammoth Theater (641 D Street NW). The theater is located in the District’s Chinatown neighborhood, accessible to the Red, Green and Yellow Metro lines.
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June 17, 2010
New Signature Labs Releases WordPress Easy Post Types Plugin
New Signature Labs released the WordPress Easy Post Types plugin today. This plugin allows publishers to easily build complex websites using WordPress 3.0. The Easy Post Types plugin extends WordPress and provides a GUI interface that combines and leverages the power of custom post types, custom taxonomies, and meta tags. Publishers don’t have to hack code to take advantage of the new powerful features of WP 3.0. Easy Post Types is distributed under the GNU General Public License.Features
- Ready to Use. Use standard WordPress query rules to quickly list content in your page templates, no need for any custom PHP coding.
- Pre-Packaged. Create custom content types on the fly through the WordPress backend.
- Themable. Available out of the box with the base theme or quickly override using your own.
- Robust. Add unlimited fields to your content types.
- Extensible. Many out of the box field types available, or create your own through the plugin API.
- Customizable. Fields can be ordered in the template to allow better input workflow for the user.
- Pluggable. Simply create a field and it’s plugged into your content type automatically.
- Simple. One single call to display any field in an output.
- Advanced Users. Access to the plugin object for advanced users at the post level.
Features
Ready to Use. Use standard WordPress query rules to quickly list content in your page templates, no need for any custom PHP coding.
Pre-Packaged. Create custom content types on the fly through the WordPress backend.
Themable. Available out of the box with the base theme or quickly override using your own.
Robust. Add unlimited fields to your content types.
Extensible. Many out of the box field types available, or create your own through the plugin API.
Customizable. Fields can be ordered in the template to allow better input workflow for the user.
Pluggable. Simply create a field and it’s plugged into your content type automatically.
Simple. One single call to display any field in an output.
Advanced Users. Access to the plugin object for advanced users at the post level. -
June 1, 2010
New Signature Wins Five 2010 Communicator Awards
New Signature’s visually stunning, innovative websites earned three Gold Communicator Awards and two Silver Communicator awards in the 2010 Communicator Awards. The International Academy of the Visual Arts announced the winners and four websites that New Signature designed and developed won five awards. New Signature’s winning websites are Working America’s I Am Not Your ATM (Gold in the Activism category and Gold in the specialty category of Best Homepage), Crystal Pools (Gold in the Construction category), InsideIRAN (Silver in the Activism category), and the Dodging Diabetes Charity Dodgeball Tournament (Silver in the Events category). (more…) -
May 17, 2010
Food & Water Watch Launches the Spill the Truth Campaign
Food & Water Watch launched a massive campaign today to shut down BP Atlantis, an oil platform in the Gulf that is missing 89% of its engineer-approved safety documents. This campaign is driven online by the Spill the Truth website. Food & Water Watch turned to New Signature to conceptualize, design and develop the Spill the Truth campaign website. In order to react to the Gulf Coast disaster and media coverage by 60 Minutes on their campaign to shut down Atlantis it was critical for Food & Water Watch to work with a partner who could quickly implement a stunning visual design and rich functionality. New Signature utilized our process-driven approach to design, build, and launch the Spill the Truth website in one week.SpilltheTruth.org features a compelling message delivered through multimedia content including a compelling video, interactive timeline, and supporting documentation. Visitors to the website can also take action through a variety of methods, including emailing or calling President Obama to ask him to shut down BP Atlantis until it is proven safe, spreading the word to friends via email and social networks, and direct contribution to Food & Water Watch. The website also integrates with social media, drawing community generated content directly from Twitter and Facebook.
Update: June 16, 2010 @ 11:38
Food & Water Watch’s Spill the Truth campaign to shut down BP Atlantis is featured in a 2 minute and 41 second hard hitting video on CNN.com’s homepage.
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May 16, 2010
Using Drupal’s Domain Access Module for Multi-site Implementations
For organizations looking to manage more than one web property with a single Drupal instance, there is a great set of modules available to make the job entirely doable on a modest budget. Unlike some of the other Drupal multi-site modules available, the Domain Access Module uses one primary website and database that you can then add any number of affiliated sites to. Each website may run on its own domain, and content can be shared across one or more of the affiliated sites.
One time-saving benefit of this approach is that website administrators and editors use one administration back-end location to manage all affiliated sites. And because all custom and contributed Drupal modules are shared across all affiliates, maintaining and updating the Drupal installation requires no more effort than maintaining a single installation of Drupal.
Some other benefits of the Drupal Domain Access Module include: (more…)
