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Ian Rhett, Jenn Sramek and I gave our Ignite presentation on Thursday night at the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference ( 10NTC ) hosted by NTEN in Atlanta, GA. We’ve gotten some great feedback directly and via Twitter already! The audience was fantastic, and the other presenters were really great. Sarah Davies, the hostess and organizer did a fantastic job both organizing the event and introducing us all with a little song.
CivicActions team members Jenn Sramek, Ian Rhett and I are all presenting at this year’s Nonprofit Technology Converence, not only in full sessions, but also during the Ignite Reception on Thursday evening from 7PM to 9PM in International Ballroom F.
On Friday I’ll be running a session at the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) hosted by the Nonprofit Technology Entrepreneurs Network, or NTEN. My session “ Working With Open Source Software and Vendors ” will feature a few panelists with different perspectives on the topic.
Anyone who knows me well enough to have eaten over at my house, or had me cook at theirs knows that I am a bit of a Jamie Oliver nut. I've got nearly all of his cookbooks,…
This article covers some common tips to improve the quality of your content both for your audience and for search engines. It expands on our earlier Content Strategy and SEO Strategy articles.
Sunday's NYT brings with it (nearly every week) Thomas Friedman's column . Each week an opportunity for me to get frustrated and angry at Friedman. I've often joked that I am going to start critiquing every column, calling attention to his mixed metaphors and verbose prose. While I haven't gotten around to the weekly critique,…
CivicActions is really excited to be a Silver Sponsor of DrupalCon San Francisco this year, and beyond our sponsorship, we’re hoping to enrich everyone’s experience with a variety of sessions proposed by our team members. Take a few minutes to check out out this awesome lineup of session proposals.
WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editors can be tricky to configure properly, and most clients have to have them, for good reason too, who wants to hand code html? In this short post I’ll explain a few tips and tricks to get your WYSIWYG configuration dialed in. For starters you will want the following modules installed
I recently upgraded CiviCRM for one of our clienst from 2.1.4 to 3.0.4 and learned a few tips that I’ll share. In most cases you just need to be sure to follow the instructions that CiviCRM provides and make all the intermediate upgrades along the way. But In doing so, I ran into some frustrating problems, but through perseverence, ingenuity, and most important;y awesome support from Fen, Alex and Galaxy, I got around the problems and got the site upgraded.
Our friends at Chapter 3 recently launched a training program and just announced a new round of trainings in San Francisco in February . As Dries Buytaert has pointed out , with the growth of Drupal, and the increasing demand for Drupal development and site building services it is essential that more people learn to build websites with Drupal.