I’m excited to share that my work with Participatory Budgeting, leveraging open data to help both elected officials and residents make data-informed choices made it into the 2017 MODA Open Data Report. Read the report here.Â
Smart Cities NYC 2017: Open Minds, Open Data panel
It was an honor to share the panel stage with Dr. Amen Ra Mashariki, Beth Noveck, and Lourdes German at the Smart Cities NYC conference. The core questions I asked were: What tools or frameworks do we use to generate broad civic engagement with our metrics and data sets? How do we see our development… Continue reading Smart Cities NYC 2017: Open Minds, Open Data panel
The ethics of algorithms: nonprofits, open data, and feedback loops
I recently gave a talk at Thoughtworks’ Ethics of Algorithms series, which was a great opportunity to examine how structured logic appears in my work with decidedly unstructured-leaning organizations. A few key takeaways: Feel free to grab the slides if they’re of interest: Ethics of Algorithms_Dec16
Digital Information Security: Explaining the Two Main Issues & How To Deal With Them
[download this resource as a PDF:infosec_resources_femmetechdec2016-1] While the current political climate in the US is spawning mass interest in digital security, the situation as it stands has been created over the last 20 years or so, with concern and activism around the issue rising with the tide of technologies that are fueling the problems. Here… Continue reading Digital Information Security: Explaining the Two Main Issues & How To Deal With Them
Web UX & Architecture, Content Migration and writing, HTML 5: totallybrilliant.com
For Totally Brilliant, the client needed a full site UX analysis and re-architecture of their old site borchure and client portal site. I customized a fully-responsive and SEO optimized design, brought over some content, re-wrote 50% of content. Check them out: totallybrilliant.comÂ
UX, CRM & Database Imports and Integration, Webform & Payment, Communications: UDC
In 2014 and again in 2016 as part of Openflows I worked with the UDC to create a WordPress + CiviCRM solution to managing their membership, conference registration, and communications:Â http://www.democraticcommunications.org/ They required a business needs analysis, a SWOT analysis, a full software and communications analysis and technology development.Â
So You Want to Make A Digital Archive? Three Strategy Questions
Managing physical and digital files, metadata-gathering, and enabling complex internal or public searches of cultural production, ephemera, archives and/or born-digital assets are issues faced by many organizations: large, small, funded, volunteer… At Openflows, IÂ build digital catalogs and archives regularly and want to share some of those specific strategies we use at the outset of a… Continue reading So You Want to Make A Digital Archive? Three Strategy Questions
Web Architecture, WordPress production: heatheracs.com
Created March – Dec 2015 for the artist/educator Heather Maria Acs. Platform: wordpress Tasks: information architecture, customizing wordpress.com
Glitter & Grit, Book (2015)
Glitter and Grit is a 352-page anthology with 144 images, 12 pages of magazine-style spread, and design elements created in InDesign, using master page templates, paragraph and character styles. It was printed in Portland, OR and published by Publication Studio in 2015. (It also was nominated for a Lambda Literary award!). Front cover (illustration by… Continue reading Glitter & Grit, Book (2015)
Web UX, Site Architecture, Data Migration, Logo Development: Openflows.com
In 2015 I undertook to re-design and re-architect the Openflows Community Technology Coop website, since we’d been so busy since 2008 we hadn’t had a chance to touch our old Drupal 6 site, and as the drupal community knew, Drupal 6 was about to cease having security updates supported. Specs: WordPress + ParallaxOne theme on… Continue reading Web UX, Site Architecture, Data Migration, Logo Development: Openflows.com