Author: gregoryheller
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Thoughts On Alex Steffen's Thoughts On Carbon Neutral Cities
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<p>On Wednesday evening I went to Town Hall Seattle to see Alex Steffen of <a href="http://worldchanging.org">Worldchanging</a> talk about carbon neutral cities, and I guess, specifically Seattle and our future. In 2009 after we had local elections Steffen also spoke on this topic at Town Hall, for two nights. Both nights the house was basically sold…
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Post Election News Diet
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<p>Yesterday was rough. I am not usually an electoral optimist — well maybe I actually am, having worked for many underdogs I held out hope even after returns started to come in showing by candidate slipping behind — but in the last few weeks I really could not believe that the Republican party energized by…
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CiviCRM Duplicate Matching Threshold Configuration Tips
CiviCRM offers a function to check for duplicate contacts either manually, or on user submission. Duplicate matching is very useful for preventing duplicate records from being created when you allow anonymous users to register for events, or make donations. Without it, ever time an anonymous user did one of those two things, you would get…
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Heading To The Pacific Northwest Drupal Summit in Vancouver
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<p><a href="http://pnwdrupalsummit.org" target="_blank"><img align="left" src="http://pnwdrupalsummit.org/sites/default/files/banner-vertical.png" alt="I am going to Drupal Summit 2010 this October 2-3rd" /></a>I'm excited to head up to Vancouver in a few weeks where I'll be attending the Pacific Northwest Drupal Summit, now it its second year. I've been to Vancouver a few times, but don't feel like I have a really…
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Voting Open on NTEN’s 2011 NTC Sessions
NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) is a pretty amazing event for nonprofit staff people, consultants and thought leaders working in that sector. The NTC is growing at a pretty strong clip, last year’s conference had over 1300 technologists and nonprofit staffers. The 2011 NTC, which promises to be even bigger will be held in Washington…
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Announcing Two CiviCRM User Trainings
I’m really excited to announce that I will be running two CiviCRM user trainings in September and October. Back in March and April I was involved in two similar trainings, one with Dave Greenberg from CiviCRM at the NTC, and the other during the workshop day before DrupalCon in San Francisco. The feedback from both…
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Looking For An Email Service Provider? Groundwire Sizes Up The Options
We often hear the question, “What email service provider do you recommend?” from clients, prospective clients, or even just friends. For those using CiviCRM we recommend using the built in CiviMail in conjunction with an SMTP service like CiviSMTP to handle deliverability issues. But for those not using CiviCRM the answer is always a tricky…
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Money Where Our Mouth Is: Independence Day From Big Banking
A question recently came up on our internal team list. One of our team members was looking for recommendations on where to move her money. She was currently banking with Chase and was disturbed by learning of the connection between Chase and BP. This being just one reason of many to move your money from…
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Using Social Media to Meet Nonprofit Goals: Idealware’s New Report
Idealware just released a report on their survey of nearly 500 nonprofit professionals regarding their use of social media and their perceptions of the efficacy of various social media channels.
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MEanderthal: Morph Your Face Into That of an Early Human Ancestor
Last week I wrote about some recent press coverage for the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History’s new website for the Human Origins Program and the related new exhibit in Washington, DC.