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It's conference season again
March 8th, 2010 | Sean Larkin
Well, it's that time of the year again, conference season! Things are busy here at ThinkShout, but there are just too many good opportunities for us to connect with other social entrepreneurs, technologists, and community activists to stay home. So, I've purchased my tickets and will see you at the following conferences:
- NTEN's Non-profit Technology Conference - April 8-10 in...
TextMate and Drupal
November 3rd, 2009 | Sean Larkin
This summer I joined the dark side...I moved away from using an Ubuntu laptop to a MacBook. More recently, I switched code editors from Komodo Edit to TextMate.
As a Drupal developer, I can't recommend TextMate enough. The Drupal PHP bundle for Textmate is great. Auto-completion of Drupal hooks saves me considerable time.
I also just started using the "It's All...
ThinkShout has a new world headquarters
August 18th, 2009 | Sean Larkin
We're proud to announce that we have new digs in a cool new sustainable industries incubator in the heart of downtown Portland, called the Dekum Beehive. Currently, we're pretty busy moving in, but we did take some time this morning to take some pictures of the new space. Check us out on Flickr and stay tuned to hear more about our rooftop office warming party in two...
6 Drupal Modules to Improve Administration/Editorial Usability
July 20th, 2009 | Andrea Burton
Yesterday I built out a quick Drupal site for a fairly non-technical client. He manages a busy team and doesn't have the time for me to train his staff on the intricacies of Drupal content administration. The project also has a shoestring budget, so I wanted to keep things as simple as possible. Below are a few Drupal modules and tricks that I used to cut down on Drupal admin interface clutter, and more importantly, to make the site ...
ThinkShout takes the "Sotomayor" approach to opinionated technology planning
July 14th, 2009 | Sean Larkin
ThinkShout is still largely in the brainstorming phase of our own brand development. Sure, we're busy with client work already, actively solving interesting social media problems for social entrepreneurs - so we don't have a ton of time for navel gazing. But in the evenings, we do get together to discuss what we ultimately want to do with ThinkShout and how we want to carve out our own niche in the social media and web technology business....
Why ThinkShout? Why Now?
July 11th, 2009 | Sean Larkin
A lot of people have been asking me lately why I've decided to set up my own IT company in "the worst economic downturn in modern history" [insert screams of terror]. In the interest of full disclosure, the most immediate impetus was because, like many other people these days, I was recently laid off from my more-comfortable, full-time job. But that's actually just the opportune starting point for this chapter in my...
