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Tonight is President Obama’s second State of the Union address before Congress and the American People.  There has been no shortage of talk about civility (as signified by Republicans and Democrats intermingling on the House floor), and speculation about what the President will talk about (jobs), and in just a few hours we will see…

Are you an Accidental Project Manager or Product Owner? Have you been given a product or service to deliver and been tossed in the deep end? Do you know what a Project Manager or Product Owner is or is supposed to do?

Each year NTEN raises money to provide scholarships to staff from nonprofit organization that would otherwise not be able to afford to attend the conference.  Usually the money is raised by people and companies sponsoring or donating money with the reward of seeing Holly Ross, and other N-NTEN staff do something funny, like singing and…

CivicActions is tremendously excited for the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference (11NTC).

We are proud to once again be sponsors of CiviCON, the annual conference for CiviCRM implementers and developers.  Last year’s conference was held in conjunction with DrupalCon in San Francisco, and this year’s will precede  DrupalCon in Chicago (which we are also sponsoring).

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…

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…

CivicActions is proud to be a silver sponsor of DrupalCon Chicago! We have a long history of sponsoring DrupalCons in North America and Europe.

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…

  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.