The guy you'd be replacing came to us via management positions at the World Bank, IBM and IFor (the UN deployment in Bosnia). If you think you've got the chops for it we'd love to talk to you.

The other is far more interesting but less glamourous. We'd like a Web Development Co-ordinator, which is how the words 'project manager' were translated when written onto a job description. Key requirements can be expressed in a form we'd hope you'd be familiar with

"As a web development co-ordinator you will work with campaigns to understand their needs and translate them into technical requirements so that our campaigns can achieve their online goals."

"As a web development co-ordinator you will identify, hire and manage outside agencies to develop online applications for Greenpeace so that we get great work and value for money"

"As a web development co-ordinator you will work with the Application Development Team Leader to deliver applications as part of a consistent architectural vision so that our systems function well together"

"How many people, I speculated, lacked scales in their kitchen but did have a computer close to hand."

is perhaps 'enough to justify this project.' I've lived with enough geeks to believe this to be true. However I've generally made a point of ensuring that at least one person in every house I've lived in was very serious about their home cooking, so scales have been in plentiful supply (although the PCs to scales ratio was typically 5+) . Still, there's a website for measuring potatos - take a look http://www.howbigismypotato.com

Perhaps more interesting than the site (fascinating as it is) is the blog, which gives a pretty good description of a project developed in iterations. Until I get round to having one of our internal projects set up so we can view each separate iteration I might use this for explaining to internal clients what 'not doing it all at once' actually looks like.

The Revolution will be Organised

You will not be able to stay home brother,
You will not be able to login, sit down and doze off,
You will not be able to lose yourself in emailed exchanges,
Sending messages for their own sake,
Because the revolution will be organised

The revolution will be organised
The revolution will not be brought to you in multi-part mime format
In four parts with attatchments
The revolution will not send you minutes of meetings you did not attend
And documents you have no intention of ever reading
Because the revolution knows you have better things to do
The revolution will be organised

The revolution will not be brought to you by the
Alt.goldfish.preservation discussion group’s email digest and will not require
You to fill in a read receipt
The revolution will not CC your boss
The revolution will not CC your friends
The revolution will not waste your time with unnecessary email
Because the revolution will be organised

There will be no need to repeat in emails
Things agreed in conversations
There will be no need to repeat in emails
things agreed in conversations
F.Y.I. There will be no need to reply to emails just
Because someone sent them F.Y.I.
There will be no need to phrase your emails
Using language straight from the gutter or to
Defend your opinion using a selection of flames and curses you have been saving
For just the proper occasion
Because the revolution will be polite

It will be OK to get up from your desk
And walk the fifteen meters to your co-worker in order
To arrange the meeting you are going to have in ten minutes time
The telephone you have been given will not be left to recharge
While downloading a new ring tone by Eminem,
Robbie Williams, Kylie Minogue or the Prodigy
Because you will be using it

The Revolution does not need to send everyone a message
About it’s opinion of snack machines, the temperature in the office or the next election
You will not have to worry or panic about messages labeled
Important or urgent, unless they really are
The revolution will not write without punctuation
The revolution will not feel the need to connect your spelling mistakes

The revolution will be organised, it will be organised
The revolution will not be virtual brothers;
The revolution will be live

Apologies to Gil Scott Heron.

That's why we're asking Apple to make things a little greener...

Take yourself to http://www.greenpeace.org/apple and ask Steve yourself

(and don't forget to tag references to this campaign with greenmyapple )

Maybe I'm hanging out with the wrong crowd. After all, my page has a space for blog entries and I'm going to fill it in...

Lets see how I get on

If you find anything leave us a message here

We'll be rolling out a second site on the platform, hopefully by the end of the week.

As I mentioned earlier our developer Lars Pind has been running a quick discussion at his blog on how to address an interface problem. Here it is...

We're very close to deploying not one, but two versions of our social networking platform Custard. Read about it on it's own blog.

We're working through some final glitches to switch our mass mailing over to Skylist's StormPost system. This will be accompanied by a new application codenamed Garlic, that will handle signing people up to mailing lists in the new system. It's been developed on our new platform of choice for small web applications (recent security scare not withstanding) - Ruby On Rails.

We're getting ready to deploy a vBulletin based discussion forum. Choosing a forum package is probably worth a blog post all in itself. The short version is that finding appropriate functionality wasn't hard - finding it in a package we were keen on from a technical point of view was.

We've got a major upgrade of Write-a-Letter ready to go as well, after which we'll probably make a bit of an effort to push this tool out to a wider community than just Greenpeace.

All that along with ongoing improvements to our intranet and content management system mean it's turning into a busy month. I'm optimistic that by the end of September we'll have a bunch of new stuff available to our campaigners on the ground, and that somewhere along the line that will translate into campaign victories...

As you'll notice from the product names above we're also moving away from building everything ourselves to taking as much off the shelf as we can. We're confident that this results in much better value for money, and means that when we do develop new tools it's for something of real value.

Most useful - sample text for all the languages. In this case my usual source didn't include Turkish.

Yes, we're the ones with an interface with 3000 check boxes (well 2952 to be precise). This is what happens when you follow Jakob Nielsens advice you see. Hierarchical dcument structures make sense he said - best way to organise your documents he said. Never had to file all Greenpeace's documents did he?

Although to be fair I think we can make this work - it's just this particular interface that's got out of hand.