Blogging on Kabissa using the offline client ecto

Submitted by Tobias Eigen on 1 October, 2010 - 00:27

As part of my ongoing search to make Kabissa more useful to members in Africa, I am exploring Blogging Software - programs that you download to your own computer that let you write your blog posts more comfortably, offline, before connecting to the internet and publishing. Like all Drupal websites, Kabissa supports this (through a standard known as XML-RPC) but we have not yet turned on the feature for all users.

Let me know if you are interested in trying it and I'll give you access - and I would welcome your help with testing and providing recommendations for all Kabissa members about which programs are most useful for blogging on Kabissa.

Generally speaking, I think Kabissa's new email discussion lists will be of more use to members since they let us use the email that we already know and use all the time. Blogging clients also don't support all Kabissa's features, so that for example you can post to your personal blog on Kabissa but would have to log in later to add keywords and move it into one of your groups. In addition, the best blogging clients that I have seen so far also are not free software.

There are many blogging clients out there, but since I use an Apple Macbook Pro, I have settled on ecto. ecto is a blogging client that integrates well with Apple and provides a clean, easy to use interface that looks remarkably like an email program. You can not only draft and publish new blog posts but also view your posts and open them for editing - all offline. 

Copy-paste job from http://illuminex.com/ecto website follows the break.

Free and Easy Website Creator: Weebly

Submitted by Munir Squires on 30 April, 2009 - 23:43

If you're hosting a site on Kabissa and don't want to pay for a website hosted commercially, Weebly may be the perfect solution for you. These are its main attractions:

  • No coding required (easy to use!)
  • Custom domain (your-organisation.org)
  • Flexible (can include a blog, photos, maps, videos, etc.)
Every organisation can use a website. Some organisations (such as Kabissa) need complex, interactive websites for which they hire multiple IT specialists. For small organisations that simply want to have a way to have their information online, hiring an IT specialist is usually out of the question. For all of you, Weebly can help! 

Quick Hits Around Ushahidi

Submitted by Erik Hersman on 25 November, 2008 - 17:29
Many things happening at Ushahidi in this run-up to the holidays.  As always, you can keep updated on our blog.  Here is a quick list:

A big thanks to everyone in the community, helping us get Ushahidi out and spreading the word about the new platform. 

OpenOffice.org: The Free and Open Source Office Suite

Submitted by Sokari Ekine on 7 February, 2008 - 17:03

OpenOffice.org is a free and open source office suite with the same (and in some ways more) functionality as most of MS Office. Open office includes a wordprocessor, spreadsheet and presentation package all of which will read and write MS Office file formats, and has a native file format that is an open standard. This protects data integrity and access forever. Learn about how you can use OpenOffice.org today in your organization.

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