Heading To The Pacific Northwest Drupal Summit in Vancouver

<p><a href="http://pnwdrupalsummit.org" target="_blank"><img align="left" src="http://pnwdrupalsummit.org/sites/default/files/banner-vertical.png" alt="I am going to Drupal Summit 2010 this October 2-3rd" /></a>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 good handle on the city, so hopefully this time around I'll get to spend a little more time exploring, as well as hanging out with Drupalers from all over Cascadia.</p> <p>It looks like I'll be presenting on a panel about organizing Drupal User Groups, something I have been doing for 4 years now.  We're looking for others with that experience to present, so if you have organized a Drupal User group, do let me...

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. We’ve proposed a few sessions, and voting is now open. We hope you will take a look and vote for our sessions, and others from the impressive bounty of proposals. We’ve been hearing a lot of people ask about mobile websites, or mobile apps. Sumit Kataria and Aaron Pava have a particular interest in this realm and Aaron has proposed a sessions specifically on Transforming Your Drupal Website into a iPhone, iPad or Android Mobile App. Aaron will talk about the options that are out there for taking existing Drupal websites and app-ifying them, and why you might want to consider that. A few months ago, Ian Rhett organized and led a “Barn Raising” through which a website and marketing plan for a nonprofit organization were created.  Ian has proposed a session to explain how he accomplished this feat, and how you can harness the power of the crowd to do the same. Anatomy of a Barnraising: A Case Study in Crowdsourcing for the non-profit On the topic of project management, Justine Hirsch proposed Skin In The Game: Why You Should Be An Active Member Of Your Web Project Team. We work very closely with our clients, and many have staff members who become a super active part of the team. ...