Author: gregoryheller

A few weeks ago, Sadie Honey and Elizabeth Raley — Certified SCRUM Masters, or Mistrixes? — presented an NTEN webinar on the topic of SCRUM and Project Management for Accidental Product Owners or Project Managers. The video of the webinar is available from NTEN via ReadyTalk, and the slide deck is available on SlideShare.View more presentations…

On the heals of our recently released survey that looked at foundations and their websites, I spoke with one of our clients, John Theodore, a Technology Officer at the Annenberg Foundation, about their choice to go with Drupal for their website redesign. The Annenberg Foundation, founded in 1989, provides funding and support to nonprofit organizations in the United…

An interesting study came out last week reporting on congressional staffers’ attitudes towards Citizen Advocacy.  For the report by The Partnership For A More Perfect Union, the organization surveyed 260 congressional staff on their opinions towards communication with constituents via both electronic and traditional mediums.

Tonight is President Obama’s second State of the Union address before Congress and the American People.  There has been no shortage of talk about civility (as signified by Republicans and Democrats intermingling on the House floor), and speculation about what the President will talk about (jobs), and in just a few hours we will see…

Are you an Accidental Project Manager or Product Owner? Have you been given a product or service to deliver and been tossed in the deep end? Do you know what a Project Manager or Product Owner is or is supposed to do?

Each year NTEN raises money to provide scholarships to staff from nonprofit organization that would otherwise not be able to afford to attend the conference.  Usually the money is raised by people and companies sponsoring or donating money with the reward of seeing Holly Ross, and other N-NTEN staff do something funny, like singing and…

CivicActions is tremendously excited for the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference (11NTC).

We are proud to once again be sponsors of CiviCON, the annual conference for CiviCRM implementers and developers.  Last year’s conference was held in conjunction with DrupalCon in San Francisco, and this year’s will precede  DrupalCon in Chicago (which we are also sponsoring).

Last month while conducting research for an upcoming report on Foundations and their use of Twitter, we started looking at what Content Management Systems (CMS) were running Foundations’ websites. Our curiosity lead us to look at the top 885 Foundations with websites (based on endowment size), utilizing the Wappalyzer browser plug-in to determine how the…