Green River News: Archive

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One of our projects, TimeSlips, was recently featured in this wonderful piece on Morning Edition.

May 23rd

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Designing for People who Struggle with Reading and... →

It’s Global Accessibility Awareness Day! I had the honor of presenting once again at the UPA Boston User Experience Conference. My slides are embedded here, but I encourage you to view the slides on SlideShare, as the transcript of the talk is included in the ‘Notes’ tab below the slides. Imagine you’re almost done with your taxes—but you’re ravenous and the smell of Indian food is wafting...

May 9th

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Check out TimeSlips on the TODAY show! It’s been thrilling to develop software for a project that has brought such joy to so many.

Dec 2nd

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A contribution to SCIENCE.

“An Experimental Study of Homophily in the Adoption of Health Behavior” is an article by Dr. Damon Centola published in this month’s issue of Science. I was privileged to collaborate with Dr. Centola and his team on the project. The article describes a carefully controlled experiment in social networks and how the network’s structure and the perceived similarities and...

Dec 1st

TimeSlips Launches!

TimeSlips.org is a storytelling tool designed for people with Alzheimer’s and dementia, their loved ones, and their caregivers. The app uses improvisational storytelling “to replace the pressure to remember with the freedom to imagine.” In 1996, founder Anne Basting began researching the use of creative drama techniques to facilitate communication by people with cognitive...

Oct 21st

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GreenRiver.org Welcomes Timothy Schmitz to the... →

We are thrilled to be working with web and mobile application designer Tim Schmitz. In addition to more than 10 years of experience as a web designer and developer, Tim has a couple years of experience developing for iPhone and iPad. Tim also has a public policy background, and shares our commitment to the social mission of the software we write. Perhaps most importantly, Tim is the one member...

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OSI Project Begins: Evidence for HIV and AIDS...

GreenRiver.org begins its work with the Open Society Institute, a nonprofit founded by George Soros whose mission involves protecting and improving the lives of people in marginalized communities. We will be working with NY Design shop Sway Design to build an application showcasing OSI’s meta-analysis of thousands of studies of HIV interventions. These are studies of projects meeting the...

Jan 8th

Sen. Leahy talks about our work from the floor of... →

Ben and I are humbled by the kind words of Sen. Leahy (D-VT): “The public’s right to know is a cornerstone of our democracy. By using technology, a site such as (ThisWeKnow.org) can provide citizens with access to data that is relevant to them and that can enable and encourage them to make informed decisions. This site is designed to make what was once a difficult and time-consuming...

Sep 15th

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Your government, online! - Brattleboro Reformer →

ThisWeKnow.org was featured in a front-page articles in today’s Reformer. If you haven’t yet voted for the site, please consider doing so. Click here to Vote.

Sep 4th

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ThisWeKnow.org Selected as a Finalist in Apps for... →

We made the cut! Our site, ThisWeKnow.org was selected as one of three finalists in the Apps For America 2 contest. We are very excited and honored. The next phase of the competition is voted on by the online community. So please cast your vote. Michael and I will be traveling to DC to present ThisWeKnow.org at the Gov 2.0 Expo on September 8th. This is also where the winner will be...

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GreenRiver.org Releases Two New Web Apps

We’ve completed two applications this May. Ben Tucker, our Director of Technology, headed up a small team building The Portfolio Place, a project of the National Center at Northeastern University. This application builds video samples and resumes about professional sign language interpreters. Aaron Michal, the Software Architect here at GreenRIver.org, headed up the team programming a...

May 27th

Social Media for Social Justice?

It’s been a month since the SXSW interactive conference in Austin, and the event continues to gnaw at me. All of us can’t help but notice that the content on facebook, tumblr, and twitter is centered on us: we’re busy tweeting about ourselves, making virtual ‘friends’, accumulating followers, so on. But it’s not until you put 7,000 technologists in a gigantic...

Apr 17th

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Check us out at SXSW 2009! →

We’re looking forward to being in Austin Texas for SXSW and to our participation on the panel Remixing the Museum Exhibition with Steven Alvarez (Alaska Native Heritage Center), Jim Forrest (Peabody Essex Museum), and Ellis Neder, (Sway Design). The museum application we’ve coded will launch at the conference.

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Video from our New Year’s Eve Fireworks Spectacular

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Dec 15th

Remixing the Museum Exhibition →

For the second year in a row, GreenRiver.org’s software will be a part of the exciting SXSW Interactive Festival in Austin TX! This year, Ellis Neder of Sway Design will be discussing the ECHO project, software we will be launching this fall. Drop us an email if you’ll be in Austin for SXSW this year, and hope to see you at this pannel discussion.

Oct 17th

Health Equity Index

We’re very pleased to be collaborating with The Connecticut Association of Directors of Health on the development of the Health Equity Index (HEI). This is a statewide initiative that will help local health departments promote health equity. GreenRiver.org will be working on scaling a pilot project to a statewide implementation. The index combines numerous social, economic and...

Oct 15th

Mr Ben is Back! →

After four very long years, Mr Ben has finshed his degree at Carnegie Mellon! He’s currently working on projects for the Peabody Essex Museum, for Starbucks, for the Global Challenge Award, and for Learning Options. It’s already hard to remember how we got by without him! He and his iRobot Roomba are settling into a comfortable new appartment here in Brattleboro. We’re very glad he’s back!

Oct 15th

Jul 14th

The ECHO (Education through Cultural and...

We’ve begun development of an educational Web applicaiton for the ECHO project. This is a major, federally funded educational and cultural enrichment initiative. ECHO brings to culturally diverse audiences innovative programs collaboratively produced by six regional cultural entities: Alaska Native Heritage Center and North Slope Borough ECHO Project in Alaska; Bishop Museum in Hawaii; New...

Jul 14th

Jun 11th

“pv - Pipe Viewer - is a terminal-based tool for monitoring the progress of data...”

– Pipe Viewer. This has been one of my favorite opensource finds of the past couple weeks. It simply rocks for doing large database imports or anything that involves processing large files. Major props to Andrew Wood and all the authors for creating such an awesomely useful little utility.

Jun 5th

The Authors Guild →

Our fastest obiki site ever! Working with Sway Design and the talented staff at The Authors Guild, we developed this new obiki application for the Guild from start to finish in a couple weeks. This is the first of three applications were working on for The Guild to launch.

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Cow Power!

We are reducing our reliance on non-renewable energy by participating in the Cow Power project. See http://www.cvps.com/cowpower/ for information on the project

Jun 2nd

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KEYSonline.org Launches

KEYSonline.org is an initiate by the National Education Association to facilitate school improvement across the nation. We redesigned the site and launched the new software.

May 20th

Citizens Committee for New York City Site Launch

A New York City agency that supports local neighborhoods through community initiatives launches citizensnyc.org using Obiki, our content management system.

Apr 4th

GreenRiver.org Launches CPRNYC.org

Our client Chez Bushwick announces a new green performance space in New York City. See a New York Times article on the project. See also a paper we wrote several years ago about our initial collaboration with the artist.

Mar 7th

MakeMeSustainable a Finalist at SxSW

We are honored that the Web application we built for makemesustainable.com has been selected as a finalist in the The 11th Annual South by Southwest Web Awards. “The awards uncover the best new websites and celebrate those who are building and implementing tomorrow’s online trends”.

Mar 7th

Power Upgrade

A major upgrade to our power backup system scheduled to be deployed on Wednesday. This new system turns on automatically, and maintains the servers and cooling system indefinitely in the event of a power outage.

Jan 6th

Make Me Sustainable Facebook Application →

The facebook application for makemesustainable has been accepted into the facebook directory, and has gone live.

Dec 10th

Global Challenge Award article featured

The Global Challenge Award published the lead article in ISTE’s Learning and Leading with Technology in their November 2007 issue. Their website was created by and is hosted by GreenRiver.org.

Nov 5th

New NEYT website →

GreenRiver.org built and is hosting a website for the New England Youth Theater.

Apr 28th