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  1. Report on Content Management Systems Powering Foundation Websites

    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 sites were built and what technologies and services were in use. A note on methodology: the list of Foundations and their website URLs came from the Glass Pockets transparency database . We used Wappalyzer during the month of December 2010 and looked only at the home page of Foundation. We were able to clearly identify the technology powering 478 of the 885 Foundation websites (54%). Highlights Here are some highlights from the tables below: When we look at all the Foundations in our sample, Drupal is the front-runner among open source systems, but not by much. Wordpress trails in second, and just over half as many sites are running Joomla compared to Drupal. Most surprising to us is how few Foundation sites (just five) are running Plone. When we look at the largest 500 Foundations, Drupal has double the Wordpress instances, and Joomla is right on the heels of Wordpress with just 3 fewer sites. In both samples, the proprietary web framework ASP.net powers the highest number of sites, however the lead is significantly smaller in the top 500 Foundation sample. Similarly, Dreamweaver drops from 10.51% of the full sample, remaining ahead of all the open source CMSs, to just 5% in the top 500 sample, a few points behind Drupal at 7.6%.

  2. Scrum Visualized

    I created the following simple scrum visualization diagram for my Ignite Presentation, " SCRUM For Wedding Planning " because I could not find any decent openly licensed SCRUM diagrams. This image is licensed under Creative Commons (see below) and you are free to modify it as long as you share your modified versions. You can share…

  3. CivicActions Sponsoring D7 Release Parties

    One of the many benefits of being a distributed company with people around the world is that our team is involved in the Drupal Community in many cities. Today we are going to be celebrating in Vancouver, Seattle, Toronto, New York, Pittsburgh, Dublin and New Delhi. Not only will we be there, we’ll be sponsoring the events in those cities with cakes, beers and oysters.

  5. Jumo And A Dunbar Number For Organizations

    This morning I read Robin Dunbar’s op-ed in the New York Times, You’ve Got To Have (150) Friends , and it got me thinking more about Jumo (read my initial thoughts on Jumo). The author’s research into the capacity of people to maintain friendships has resulted in the concept of Dunbar’s Number: that humans can really only maintain 150 relationships with other humans, regardless of what technology purports to allow.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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 change, and they wanted to know if they should change the prices in a price set or create a new price set.

  9. My Life In My Flickr Photos, By Pummelvision

    This video was generated by a service called Pummelvision from my flickr photo stream . My Pummelvision from GregoryH on Vimeo . While I'm at it, here are photos of me over the last… few years via daily mug shot .