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Techsoup Global -- Good News for Nonprofits Worldwide

Posted Thu, 2008-09-25 23:30 by matthew

Some years back I became acquainted with Techsoup while working for a nonprofit as the Technology Director.  At the time I was grateful for inexpensive licenses for software we needed.  By the time I left that position, we planned software purchases around the Techsoup cycles.  It has been a valuable program for nonprofits in the United States and in Canada.

Drupal Basics -- Adding an Events Calendar

Posted Tue, 2008-06-10 22:28 by matthew

Adding an events calendar to a Drupal instance is pretty easy thanks to Kjartan Mannes who authored the Event module and Gerhard Killesreiter who maintains it.

I was asked if I would add a Calendar to the Nonprofit Commons site--dedicated to nonprofits in Second Life--to aid in booking space across the two sims. We often have events, and sometimes they can conflict with one another.

The steps are easy. In this instance, I'm adding the module to a Drupal 5.x install.

NetSquared -- MAPLight.org

Posted Wed, 2008-05-28 19:54 by matthew

This represents the notes I took during a short presentation by Dan Newman and Sean Tanner of MAPLight.org yesterday.

MAPLight is a site designed to follow where money and politics meet and how money can affect legislation. It was developed in Drupal by Advomatic.

NetSquared -- Michael Metz from Cisco

Posted Wed, 2008-05-28 15:40 by matthew

Mr Metz gave a great talk on Cisco's marketing strategy. This is a quick overview from the notes I took during his presentation.

He started out by expressing that he was amazed by work that we're (the nonprofit community) doing. This was in reflection that he is just becoming aware of Web 2.0.

NetSquared 21 Projects

Posted Tue, 2008-05-27 11:13 by matthew

21 projects were selected as finalists to potentially share in $100,000 in funding.  The NetSquared participants will vote on the top three projects which will receive $25, $15, and $10K.  The guidelines are:

NetSquared T-Minus 8 Hours

Posted Tue, 2008-05-27 01:03 by matthew

I arrived today mid-afternoon in San Jose. Tomorrow NetSquared begins and tonight was a lovely Meet and Greet evening. I was fortunate enough to start meeting up with the Nonprofit Commons folks over hors d’oeuvres at the Hotel. It was such a pleasure meeting the folks I've been working with over the last couple of years but haven't met face to face. The only familiar (in a RL sense) face was Beth Kanter, who I've been friends with for quite a few years.

NetSquared 2008

Posted Tue, 2008-05-13 23:04 by matthew

On May 27 and 28th, the third NetSquared will take place in San Jose California. The idea behind NetSquared is to explore the use of the Web and emerging technologies to foster social change.

Our mission is to spur responsible adoption of social web tools by social benefit organizations. There's a whole new generation of online tools available – tools that make it easier than ever before to collaborate, share information and mobilize support. These tools include blogs, wikis, RSS feeds, podcasting, and more. Some people describe them as "Web 2.0"; we call them the social web, because their power comes from the relationships they enable.

I have been asked to present on Drupal as it relates to social change and the non-profit community. My background is heavily rooted in the non-profit world, having worked for various arts based non-profit companies. I also studied arts, technology, theatre, and non-profit management at Virginia Tech. My presentation will occur on the 27th between 4:45 and 5:45 pm.

NonprofitList.org

Posted Mon, 2008-04-21 20:36 by matthew

I look for "useful to not-for-profit" tools, sites, and resources. Recently a new site called nonprofitlist.org has been developed. The site is broken up into each of the 50 states and you have a choice of clicking on a state like Florida or using the list below the map.

Our goal is to map all of the non profit organization in the United States.

NPSL on MSNBC

Posted Fri, 2008-01-11 00:48 by matthew

NPSL on MSNBC. Cool.

Drupal Basics-Setting Up A Local Install of Drupal on a Mac

Posted Sat, 2007-10-20 15:08 by matthew

The first time I ever set up a local install of Drupal was a copy of 4.7.4. I remember aspects of setting things up being a little convoluted. 5.x had not gone into full release--I believe it was in RC 1. So there was no installer and it proved to be an interesting challenge. With the advent of 5.x, things have become much simpler. I'm going to describe how to set up a local install of Drupal 5.x on a Mac--the process is similar on other platforms--and can be used on the beta of 6 if you want to mess around with the newest version of Drupal.