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In just over a week, over 150 Drupaleers will gather in Seattle Washington for the first Pacific Northwest Drupal Summit.

I just took some time to review all, ALL of the 10 pages of sessions proposed for the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) organized by the Nonprofit Technology Entrepreneurs’ Network (NTEN).  There are some great  proposed sessions, and I encourage everyone who is considering attending to take the time to review and vote on the…

Yesterday I gave a presentation at Seattle NetTuesday (originally mentioned here).  The presentation went really well.

On Tuesday September 22nd, 2009 (tomorrow) I’ll be giving a lightening talk at Seattle NetTuesday on free tools that nonprofit organizations can use to develope and execute a listening strategy to enhance their use of social media and the web.

Last year I wrote about how an organization could aggregate shared bookmarks from multiple people and present them on their website.  In the recent redeisgn of CivicActions.com we implemented this functionality.  You can see the shared bookmarks feed in the center column at the bottom of the home page, or you can look at a…

Recently a client asked if there was a way to add some custom HTML to a Facebook “Page”.  I did a little research and found the My Info application and some handy instructions for adding it to your page, rather than your profile.

Recently Acquia solicited some feedback from us about what kind of features we though would be useful to small businesses for their upcoming product, code named “Acquia Gardens”. While we typically only work with small businesses with a social mission, we often do hear from businesses looking for web development work.

If you haven’t heard yet, Microsoft and Yahoo! have inked a 10 year deal to partner on search and advertising.  You can learn more about the details of the deal, which I won’t go into here.  If the deal is approved by regulators, we could see changes in Yahoo and Bing search and advertising early…

Just about a month ago I returned from the NTEN NTC in San Francisco where I had the opportunity to talk with Peggy Duvette, Angus Parker of WiserEarth and Leif Utne of Zanby and organizing force behind Open Wiser. I then blogged about the OpenWiser fundraising drive to raise $10,000 to build an open API…

At the Seattle Drupal User Group meeting tonight I gave a short presentation on the directory structure that we like to use at CivicActions. Some people asked if I would post my slide deck explaining the directory structure, so here it is.