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Notes from the Drupal Meetup at the Nonprofit Technology Conference

(Hashtag for this session: #10ntc.dru)

Great Drupal meetup with a lot of informal discussion between vendors and nonprofit clients. I took some notes! Let me know if I missed or misrepresented something.

We talked about some ways to make Drupal easier for end-users to use:

• itsalltext, lets user choose own text editor
• rubrik, seventh (theme)

"Good Maintenance" Webinar March 30

Join us March 30, when we take a look at taking good care of your Drupal website. We'll talk about:

• Why you should upgrade
• Why are we talking about this now?
• Upgrading within the same major release of Drupal

CiviCRM in Action

Constituent Relationship Management, or CRM, can be a great tool for nonprofit organizations. CiviCRM is a CRM system that is trusted and has a great reputation, especially in the nonprofit sector. Read more »

Getting Started with Drupal Theming

We're just about to start the NTEN webinar "Getting Started with Drupal Theming." Here's a sneak preview of the slides!

Getting Started with Drupal Theming (pdf)

Drupal Modules for Nonprofits Source List

Here is a list of links of the modules we mentioned in our webinar, "Drupal Modules for Nonprofits." It was part of the NTEN series "Cranking Your Nonprofit's Drupal Site Up a Notch." If you missed it, you can check out the slides and the audio recording on NTEN's website (you may need to click the "e Read more »

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 »