Grand Junction Design, LLC

Webinar Sneak Preview: Drupal Modules for Nonprofits

Spirits are high today in the GJD office as we're counting down to the start of our NTEN webinar series, "Cranking Your Nonprofit's Drupal Site Up a Notch."

Tomorrow, Tuesday 3/9/2010 at 2pm Eastern time, we'll kick off the series with "Drupal Modules for Nonprofits." (Sign up here!) Read more »

Listening is Critical! But How Do I Not Get Overwhelmed?

"There are two sides to every story," my mom used to say to me when I was growing up. It was hard for me to understand as a kid. How could it be possible that other people might see things differently from the way I did? Read more »

Webinar Series: Cranking Your Nonprofit's Drupal Site Up a Notch

So your nonprofit has a Drupal website -- are you ready to take it to the next level? This webinar series will help you and your organization expand and maintain effective websites that have been built with Drupal. In this four-part series, we'll cover module selection, site building, content types and views, theming, and keeping your site secure with upgrades. We will help you move beyond the basics and start building a slick, exciting and effective Drupal site.

Series Takeaways: Read more »

Drupal Meetup at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in Atlanta

Join me and Sean Larkin of ThinkShout! for a Drupal Meetup, 1:30pm on Thursday, April 8 in Atlanta. We're offering this as one of the affinity group sessions at the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference. Read more »

Has Idealist.org Ever Helped You? It's Your Turn to Help Them Now.

For most of my adult life idealist.org has been at the heart of the nonprofit sector -- a nexus of inspired people who wanted to change the world. Personally, I have found numerous volunteer gigs and a full-time job through Idealist. Professionally, I have hired a couple of employees who found us through Idealist. Grand Junction Design is what it is today, largely because of the existence of Idealist.

How have YOU been touched by Idealist? Because I'm sure you have. Read more »

"Digital Facelift" Webinar, December 14

Join GJD and the good folks at NTEN for "Digital Facelift: Tips for Transforming your Nonprofit Website," a webinar to take place Monday December 14th at 2pm eastern time. Read more »

If We're Gonna Change the World...

I spent yesterday with some of the most brilliant community leaders in Maryland, at the Maryland Nonprofits annual conference. Inspiring? Absolutely.

All of the discussion seemed to come back to the idea of working together, while acknowledging (but not focusing on) our differences. Think of it like a team sport -- we share a goal (winning the game), but we're still competing (human nature pretty much dictates that everybody wants to be the MVP).

So where does that leave us? Read more »

whitehouse.gov now using Drupal

The White House recently re-launched their website on Drupal! This is a huge milestone for Drupal, and for the open source movement in general. Dries Buytaert, the founder of Drupal, blogs about it here.

Some key points:

• It's a great match for President Obama's emphasis on having an open and transparent government.

Transcript and Handouts from "Digital Facelift" Teleconference

Hundreds of nonprofit folks participated in my recent teleconference, Digital Facelift: Tips for Taking Your Website from "Blah" Before to "Amazing" After. They raised a lot of good questions about search engine optimization, how to get found, whether or not to get involved in social networking, to blog or not to blog, and the list goes on...

Missed it? No worries! You can now: Read more »

Vote for Drupal at the Nonprofit Technology Conference 2010

The polls close today (Friday 10/16/09), so please vote to have Drupal at the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference! Here are links to a couple of our favorite session suggestions:

• Planning a User-Centric Website
• Drupal Tour

And, while you're at it, go ahead and mark your calendar for the conference. It'll be April 8-10, 2010, in Atlanta. More info.

See you there!