NTEN NTC 2012: Vote For Our Sessions

For many years now we’ve participated in the NTEN NTC, one of the premier technology conferences for nonprofit organizations.  The NTC provides an opportunity for organizations to share and learn from each other about both big picture technology issues, and nitty-gritty tips and tricks. For next year’s conference, folks from our team have proposed a number of sessions. Voting is open through September 23rd.  Take a look at our session proposals, we hope that you will consider voting for them! Get More Faster: Agile Project Management and the Scrum Framework:  How do you actually apply Agile and Scrum? After a high level overview of Agile and the Scrum framework, this expert panel will discuss how we’ve introduced and implemented Agile and Scrum to the organizations we work with. We’ll give specific examples of hurdles we’ve crossed and you’ll hear first-hand from the stakeholders themselves on how it improved their projects and their approach to planning. Using Agile software development methodologies to manage your organization: This “Birds-Of-A-Feather” sessions will provide an opportunity for participants to ask questions and share experiences using agile methodologies outside of purely technical project management. At CivicActions we are experimenting with using Scrum (an Agile software methodology) to manage every aspect of our organization. The Power Of An Integrated Website-CRM Solution: CiviCRM with Drupal, Joomla and WordPress: This session, co-developed with the folks at CiviCRM, will explore the benefits of tightly integrating your CRM with your website to manage and build richer relationships with your constituents and website users. Mindfulness in the Midst of Madness: In this facilitated, collaboration-based workshop, participants will work together to share...

Using Logintoboggan With CiviCRM CiviMember User Account Creation Option

CiviMember is a powerful component of CiviCRM that allows visitors to your site to signup to become members of your organization, with or without paying a fee.  If your organization also offers features for which it makes sense for your members to be users of your Drupal site, you can configure CiviMember Contribution Pages to also require (or make optional) Drupal User signup. You set this up on a contribution page, on the “Membership Settings” tab, near the bottom.   Logintoboggan is a Drupal module that allows users to specify their password during user registration and be automatically logged in to the website without having to confirm their email address as is required with default Drupal user registration. The module also allows users to login using their email address instead of their username.  There are a few other features of the module that are usefull. One option in Logintoboggan is to require users to enter their email address twice to confirm it. This option is helpful in preventing users from entering a typo in their email address that then prevents them from accessing the password reset feature, for example. If you are using CiviMember with account creation along with Logintoboggan’s “use two email address fields” you will run unto a problem.  The CiviCRM CiviMember signup page will only render a single email address.  Your user will signup, and when they confirm their contribution/membership signup, they will be delivered to the home page of your website with a cryptic error message to the effect of “e-mail address confirmation required”. The contact wil be created. The contribution (if you are taking...