How You Can Use The Twitter Favourites Feature
One of Twitter’s most-ignored features is the “Favourites” feature (some may argue that it's lists). I'm sure you've all seen it and surely know how…
Using Text Messaging in your Lead Generation
Recently I found myself in a conversation about how businesses attempt to find solid leads. WARNING, if you don't want to learn how to get first-rate…
Take a Look in the Mirror ...
Last week the Echidna team had a chance to break away from the office and do some brainstorming/soul searching about the future direction of our…
Open Data, Open Source -- Open Possibilities
A commitment to openness is a commitment to progress -- which is why today's the perfect day for us to kick off a celebration of open-source…
Start Planning Now to Join Us for Drupal North in Toronto
Toronto in summer is a wonderful experience. It’s one of Canada’s most exciting cities and this year, from Aug. 10-12th, it will be hosting one of the…
Getting a Move On With Accessible Spaces
Our recent move has highlighted for me the benefits of accessible spaces, and the added benefits of thinking accessible, that make a new space a…
Teaching People that it Should be Hard to Make Life Inaccessible
"It should be hard to make something inaccessible." That's really it, isn't it? You wouldn't build structures or create content that excludes people…
Don’t Just Consider the Source; Be Considerate As a Source
We live in an amazing time where our ability to access information is limited only by our time and inclination. But we also live in a time where it’s…
Avoiding Bumps in the Road - Communicating Change
There's an old jocular adage that those of us who have lived for any amount of time in Montreal hold close to our hearts: "There are two seasons in…
The Early Days of Islandora - Part One of An Interview with Founder Mark Leggott
Islandora is an open-source software framework designed to help institutions, organizations, and their audiences collaborative manage and discover…