Author: gregoryheller

  • Network For Good Online Giving Study

      Network For Good, the online giving portal, just released The Online Giving Study covering 3.6 million gifts totaling $381 million from nearly 1.9 million unique donors to 66,470 nonprofit organizations from 2003 to 2009.  The study only covers giving made through Network For Good’s system.

  • Two Weeks With Jumo: My First Impressions Of The Social Network For Social Change

    Since its launch on November 30th, I’ve spent some time playing around with Jumo (it is definitely worth reading the about page) and reading other people’s accounts of their explorations of the new social network for social causes founded by Facebook cofounder and Obama 2008 Online Organizing Directory Chris Hughes.

  • Using Price Sets In CiviCRM

    We are getting ready to launch a site for a client that makes heavy use of CiviCRM and CiviEvent.  During a pre-launch training on CiviCRM the client asked about best practices for using price sets. Each year the organization runs multiple events that have a variety of prices, but from year to year the prices…

  • My Life In My Flickr Photos, By Pummelvision

    <p>This video was generated by a service called <a href="http://pummelvision.com">Pummelvision</a> from <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gregoryh/">my flickr photo stream</a>.</p> <iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/17722485" width="400" height="300" frameborder="0"></iframe><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/17722485">My Pummelvision</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/gregoryh">GregoryH</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p> <!–teaser–> While I'm at it, <a href="http://www.dailymugshot.com/authusers/17871">here are photos of me over the last… few years via daily mug shot</a>.

  • Video: SCRUM For Wedding Planning Ignite Talk

    Here is the video of my <a href="http://gregoryheller.com/blog/2010-12/scrum-wedding-planning-notes">Ignite talk</a><br />: <iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/17710835" width="400" height="300" frameborder="0"></iframe><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/17710835">Ignite Seattle 12: SCRUM For Wedding Planning</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/gregoryh">GregoryH</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p> <!–break–>

  • SCRUM For Wedding Planning – Notes

    <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/stewtopia/5259807233/"><img title="Gregory Heller at Ignite Seattle 12 by Randy Stewart" src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5288/5259807233_c61dc1dcda_m.jpg" alt="Gregory Heller at Ignite Seattle 12 by Randy Stewart" hspace="10" align="left" /></a>Yesterday I presented an Ignite Talk at <a href="http://www.igniteseattle.com/2010/12/ignite-seattle-12-is-tonight/" target="_blank">Ignite Seattle 12</a> on the topic of using <a href="http://gregoryheller.com/blog/2010-12/ignite-seattle-12-scrum-wedding-planning" target="_self">SCRUM Project Management for wedding planning</a>.  I've heard people liked it, and some…

  • Ignite Seattle 12: SCRUM For Wedding Planning

    <p>Here are my slides from my Ignite Talk on December 7th, 2010 in Seattle, "SCRUM Project Management For Wedding Planning"</p> Grab the slide for my talk on <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/gregoryheller/scrum-project-management-for-wedding-planning" title="SCRUM Project Management For Wedding Planning">SCRUM Project Management For Wedding Planning</a> over at slideshare. <div style="width:425px" id="__ss_6067402"><strong style="display:block;margin:12px 0 4px"><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/gregoryheller/scrum-project-management-for-wedding-planning" title="SCRUM Project Management For Wedding…

  • Comment And Vote On Our Knight News Challenge Submissions

    Over the last few weeks a few people on our team have been buzzing away getting proposals together for the Knight News Challenge.  The deadline for submission was yesterday, and our proposals are now up and ready for comments and votes!

  • Kitchen Squatters? Really?

    <p><a href="http://www.seattlemag.com/0p38a2491/trend-kitchen-squatters/" target="_blank">Seattle Magazine </a>ran a long story about what they called "Kitchen Squatters" this month. In what I would take to be an attempt at wit, Karen Johnson, the article's author repeats this term "Kitchen Squatters".  If I said nothing else about it, you might think I was talking about people who adversely possess…

  • Need A Technical Team For Your Knight News Challenge Project?

    “You Invent. We Fund it.” That is the promise of the Knight News Challenge, the innovation contest that “aims to advance the future of news by funding new ways to digitally inform communities.” This year, the Knight Foundation is giving away as much as $5 million for fantastic ideas that use open-source technology to distribute news…