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Retrospective on my NTC Session

Sadie Honey — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:13:34 +0000

A week or two ago at the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference I lead a Birds of a Feather about Using Agile Software Development Methodologies to Manage your Organization.

When I submitted the session proposal I thought it would be a small group of people over lunch, talking about how they are introducing and driving agility in their organizations.

See You in San Francisco at the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference

Aaron Pava — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 19:25:17 +0000

The 2012 NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference kicks off in San Francisco next week. As always, we're excited to be in such good company, surrounded my thousands of non-profits and organizations committed to making the world a better place.

Here are a few sessions and locations you can connect with our team:

Video: 8 Powerful Case Studies of International NGOs Leveraging Drupal for Social Change

Aaron Pava — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 19:45:47 +0000

Last week I had the honor to speak at DrupalCon Denver on how international NGOs are leveraging Drupal for social change.

Amnesty International Report

Amnesty International's Project IMPACT

Seeking Balance

Ian Rhett — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 23:30:57 +0000

I started a sabbatical several weeks ago, intending to take a break from my day-to-day responsibilities as CEO of CivicActions in order to create some space to nourish some parts of me that have been getting the short end of the stick from me.

Henry Poole, the company's founding manager and veteran professional services CEO has had the helm and will until I "return to the bridge." The sabbatical was and is intended to create a space in which I personally find balance.

Mindfulness, Technology and Living a Life of Balance

Aaron Pava — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:06:34 +0000

Living and working in the Bay Area is extraordinary and full of contradictions. On one hand, many of our friends and the people we interact with day-to-day are largely defining society's primary technology systems. They work at Facebook, Twitter, Google, Apple, Amazon, Zynga and nearly every technology and service we regularly use. And, by way of serendipity or coincidence, we are also surrounded by some of the world's most renown teachers in mindfulfuness, yoga and spiritual practice. On any given day you can practice at more than a hundred local yoga studios or from an endless number of workshops and classes.

Free And Open Source Software For Nonprofit Organizations Webinar Slides

Gregory Heller — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 20:16:57 +0000

On Thursday I presented a webinar in conjunction with NTEN entitled Free & Open Source Software For Nonprofits. You can view the slides from my presentation below or on slide share (click that last link). If you would like to see the video fo the entire webinar, approximately 65 minutes, you can purchase it from the NTEN website for $35 if you ar a member, and more if you are not.

Free & Open Source Software For Nonprofits: NTEN Webinar

View more presentations from Gregory Heller

A Primer: DrupalCon Presentation Training

Aaron Pava — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:49:41 +0000

I am incredibly honored to have been selected to speak at the upcoming DrupalCon Denver on the topic of International NGOs Leveraging Drupal for Social Change.

As part of the amazing support in the Drupal Community, all presenters have been requested to attend (or watch recordings of) webinars on how to give good presentations, led by Emma Jane Hogbin of Design to Theme.

Below is a summary of the two hour-long videos, which I initially intended as personal notes, but later realized others might find useful as well.

Search API: The New Face of Search in Drupal

Malcolm van Delst — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 05:59:49 +0000

Affinity Bridge's Katherine Bailey and Tom Nightingale gave an awesome introduction to the Search API module at the recent Vancouver Drupal User Group's meeting.

Changes in the 2011 Scrum Guide

Sadie Honey — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:37:44 +0000

As we've mentioned a number of times on this blog, CivicActions uses the Scrum framework. To keep our skills up to date and to learn from the experiences of others we try to participate in the Scrum and Agile communities.

Last night at Agile Denver Charles Bradley (ScrumCrazy) talked about the major changes made to the 2011 Scrum Guide (PDF).