SCRUM For Wedding Planning – Notes
Yesterday I presented an Ignite Talk at Ignite Seattle 12 on the topic of using SCRUM Project Management for wedding planning . I've heard people liked it, and some…
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Ignite Seattle 12: SCRUM For Wedding Planning
Here are my slides from my Ignite Talk on December 7th, 2010 in Seattle, "SCRUM Project Management For Wedding Planning" Grab the slide for my talk on SCRUM Project Management For Wedding Planning over at slideshare.
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?
Seattle Magazine 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 in the public interest, in one of four categories.
Thoughts On Alex Steffen's Thoughts On Carbon Neutral Cities
On Wednesday evening I went to Town Hall Seattle to see Alex Steffen of Worldchanging 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…
Post Election News Diet
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…
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 a new record for them in the database.
Heading To The Pacific Northwest Drupal Summit in Vancouver
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…
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 DC, March 17-19.