"building the capacity of public media and technology organizations"
Here's a List of Software we bought for my organization.
CrossScanner
People who has limited physical moblility.
Nonprofit Communications 2.0 – Seven Steps to Transform Your Organization
This presentation (attached) has a WEALTH of information on the following:
I. Network Centric Communities
II. Strategic Communications
1. Planning for Integration
2. Viral Marketing
3. Building Blocks of Nonprofit Communications
ii. MEANS OF PRODUCTION
a. email
b. blogging
c. online media
d. wikis
i'm not sure if i have talked with anyone about this, but two weeks ago (i cannot believe how much time has gone by already) i went to an drupal extreme makeover. basically, i was feed for two days and taught the ins and outs of drupal. well, i was taught as much as you can learn in a crash course. i was also able to work one-on-one with a drupal expert to start the revision of our extremely outdated helping-sf. it was an amazing experience (& free for our organization too!) in the past two weeks, however, i have had about zero time to work on the website. this drives me crazy. currently, i am teaching class, helping in the technology center, doing general tech support for the office (meaning about 20 phone calls a day) and being a lead interviewer for my new boss (what?!?). i feel as though there is no time to actually work on the projects that i feel i was hired for. my job title would be more accurately stated as "master troubleshooter".
Comment from gariet cowin on December 5, 2006 - 2:57pm
Was this drupal training something that was done at your site, or did you go to a drupal conference of some kind? We're just starting to talk about doing a huge site overhaul over here, using drupal, and I'm still not totally clear on the drupal concept. Is it just a CMS? Can you add it to an existing site, keeping your presentation, but using drupal for content management? Or do you have to redesign everything within drupal?
I want to go to a drupal extreme makeover!
Comment from Aliya Abbasi on December 5, 2006 - 4:17pm
Kudos... so your job changed (maybe temporarily) and you are handling it. Good for You!
Now you get to pick your boss - Yeah!!
This is your chance to convert - give up programming and join the TANs!!!
or
if troubleshooting gets too tiresome and you want to get back to websites and drupal programming redirect help-desk to a technology organization - maybe Tim and Aspiration can step-in or help you look for a good tech assistance provider.
Comment from brittney fosbrook on December 5, 2006 - 6:28pm
i knew that you would be jealous of my extreme makeover! i suppose that i could give you a bit of information about the training:
i was invited from a random connection i made at the sf wifi project conference sponsored by nten. my drupal training was conducted at aspiration tech (where tim works). there were four of us non-profiters and about 5 drupal people (druppies?).
i would definitely not consider myself a drupal expert, but i do know that calling drupal *just* a content management system is an understatement! i feel like there are numerous modules that can be downloaded to fulfill a variety of different needs. the problem is knowing which modules to download, and that is where the drupal people came in. i am under the impression that you do not add drupal cms stuff as an extension of a website, but rather create an entire website in drupal. but i am not sure about this. i do know, however, that we did a complete drupal switch for helping-sf, but we drupalized much of theme and format of our old site to keep the design the same.
i hope this helps!