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Examiner.com Community Developer Post

Posted Wed, 2010-01-13 17:02 by matthew

A few days ago I wrote about the Drupal 7 redesign of the Examiner.com website and that there were recruitment effort ongoing for front and back end developers. Thanks everybody that took the time to send in a resume.

The team is also working on a second important project in Drupal 6 that will be used to foster Examiner community and communication. It is hard to call a site that targets 10's of thousands of users as an Intranet, but that is kind of the way it is being built.

Dao of the Drupal Community-DrupalCampColorado

Posted Sun, 2008-07-27 20:29 by matthew

Greg Knaddison directed a session on what we like or we don't. He solicited comments on what confuses and what bugs folks. These are my notes from that session.

The Drupal community is represented by a diverse community comprised volunteers who are paid or hope to be paid.

Tech Soup Forums

Posted Fri, 2007-05-25 05:41 by matthew

I have been spending quite a bit of time on the TechSoup Forums. It is a vibrant community with many folks asking and answering questions related to Non Profit Technology and how it can be integrated and embraced in pursuit of an organization's mission.

I think a lot about how, even for groups with little intersection with tech, NPT can be woven into the fabric of nonprofits ranging from use of email, to forums, to building listserv, and in a Web presence.

Community is key to the success of all nonprofits.

  1. The community that the nonprofit serves
  2. The community that funds the nonprofit

The communities need to be cared and nutured. If they are not looked after, then the community shrivels up and goes away. This doesn't necessarily mean that the community needs to grow, but it does need to be maintained.

convinceme.net

Posted Thu, 2007-03-22 03:02 by matthew

Through WESTAF, I'm working on a project right now with the Denver Office of Cultural Affairs in which there will be some kind of blogging component. I'm not going to go into specific details of the project as elements are still being fleshed out. It will be a Web 2.0 style site with lots of community building tools.

In our conversations/brainstorms/planning, I was introduced to a site called Convinceme.net. ConvinceMe is a debate site in which a person shares a question, and then the community can chime in.

TourWest 2007 is Here

Posted Fri, 2007-02-02 22:54 by matthew

A couple of weeks ago I finished updating TourWest for work. WESTAF uses its own CultureGrants Online(tm) Basic software to administer the program. I helped develop both the first version of this software many years ago and then, to rebuild it from the ground up about two years ago. It continues to be refined.

The Online Front Porch

Posted Mon, 2006-12-18 23:27 by matthew

10 years ago I was in graduate school. I had just finished the second performance event in my thesis work. The summer before, I had worked for the William King Regional Arts Center in Abingdon Virgina as production co-ordinator for the Appalachian Cultural Festival, Living Traditions. There, I met a man name Jim Loyd--a barber and old-time musician. He was a member of an Old-Time band called the Konnarock Critters.

I approached the Critters to play a series of concerts in the Virginia Tech Black Box Theatre. We scrounged a camera and hooked it into a Mac. We broadcast a video stream on the Internet and invited people from around the world to tap in as well.