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725 posts on careers, communication, technology and civic life, since 2005.
CiviMember is a powerful component of CiviCRM that allows visitors to your site to signup to become members of your organization, with or without paying a fee. If your organization also offers features for which it makes sense for your members to be users of your Drupal site, you can configure CiviMember Contribution Pages to also require (or make optional) Drupal User signup.
Recently I worked with Grantmakers In The Arts , a national association of private and public funders making grants to artists and arts, to provide training on how they can get the most out of their CiviCRM database. In this post I am going to explain one specific bit of functionality that I helped them think through: managing grants that they receive (as opposed to give).
I think all of us at CivicActions were disgusted by Go Daddy CEO Bob Parsons’ vacation video featuring him murdering an elephant in Zimbabwe (and the subsequent butchering of that elephant by local villagers wearing Go Daddy hats overdubbed with the song Hells Bells ). Bob Parsons has exhibited some pretty questionable behavior before, and made distateful comments.
Seems like ages ago that I got my ScrumMaster Certification and joined the ranks of Certified ScrumMasters everywhere. I sometimes like to say "I Choose Not To Scrum!" to paraphrase Seinfeld. Well, My membership in the Scrum Alliance was about to expire, but I renewed it today, so I am still a Certified ScrumMaster!
Last week I wrote up some research we conducted at CivicActions. The research and blog post took a look at the largest 36 foundations using Twitter (based on the size of their endowment). What I found was a wide variance in the twitter metrics: follower and followign counts, tweeting frequence, etc… check out the…
Last week I wrote about some research we conducted regarding Foundations and their use of Twitter . One thing I noticed in our research is that many Foundations are primarily using the Twitter website to interface with the service. In this post I will highlight a few tips for Foundations that want to make better use of Twitter, or improve their management of the social media tool.
Back in November 2010 we used the Glass Pockets database to identify 38 of the top 100 Foundations (by endowment site) using Twitter. By “using Twitter” we mean Foundations with official Twitter accounts. This does not include Foundation staff using Twitter, and we did not look at multiple Twitter accounts per Foundation, only the primary official Twitter account for each of the 38 Foundations. The Numbers We looked at some basic metrics for how these Foundations were using Twitter, such as the follower/following ratio, tweeting frequency, age of account, etc… There is tremendous variability in the data, which is not surprising. The numbers suggest that some Foundations have done little more than sign up for a Twitter account while others are making regular use of the service.
For the first time Ignite is coming to DrupalCon! We have a short slot on the Day Stage, Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 and will feature nine Ignite Talks. Ignite talks are strictly limited to five minutes, and twenty slides, that advance automatically every 15 seconds. In no particular order, the presenters will be:
Next week I will be in Chicago for DrupalCon where I am organizing Ignite DrupalCon on Tuesday afternoon at 4:30pm. I'll also be at the CivicActions booth (#70). So drop by and say hello. In addition to DrupalCon, I will be at CiviCon on Monday. Check out this awesome widget for…
Ignite is back for the third year running. We’ve scheduled Ignite talks for the first night of the 2011 NTC, so everyone who sees your talk will have a chance to catch you in the halls and ask you more about your presentation. Ignite is the purest dose you can get of the passions of NTC attendees. Ignite is a fast-paced, fun, thought-provoking social event that educates and entertains. The evening will be split into two sets, each under an hour. Refreshments will be served before, during, and after. Talks by (in no particular order):