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Drupal 6 Social Networking: Communicating with Users
Our users can communicate with one another, which is great, but quite often as an administrator the need may arise for us to communicate with a user or users on our site. It may be to remind them about the web site or to inform active users about new changes to the site, which they may not have been made aware of.
This article is extracted from the "Drupal 6 Social Networking" book. In this article, you will learn:
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Joel Burton's Plone Bootcamp: San Francisco is Coming in April
Plone Bootcamp Series in AprilÂ
Joel Burton, Plone teacher galore and frequent presented at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference in the US and abroad, has begun announcing dates for his Plone Bootcamps series. The class, a fantastic introduction to the Plone open-source CMS platform, will be held in San Francisco the week before NTC in San Francisco this April:
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Rate Your CMS Provider for NTEN
Brett Meyer, NTEN's Communications and Web Manager, asked me to ask all of you to take a moment to fill out their CMS Satisfaction Survey. The survey has 14 questions and will take about 5-10 minutes to complete.
Wondering what CMS is, or if the one you are using is on the survey? Here's what NTEN says:
" CMS Defined
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Making it easier for NGOs to launch Facebook applications
Hi all, awhile ago you may remember me griping about the ineffectiveness of Facebook Groups and Pages. They are easy to set up, but they are also quite limited in functionality. These features are not conducive to community-building, engagement or organizing.
Today, I'm releasing the first beta of a new open source Facebook Newsroom CMS application framework.
See the demonstration application site at Facebook:
http://apps.facebook.com/newsdemo
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Hindsight Is 20/20: Would You Still Recommend Nonprofits Use Social Networks?
In February 2006, members of the Net2 Community were asked, "What emerging tech tool do you think has the most potential to help nonprofits and NGOs create social change?"
Here were the results, ranked in order of preference:
- Content Management Systems, 29.41%
- Social networking, 29.41%
- Podcasting, 11.76%
- RSS (publishing information to an RSS/XML feed), 11.76%
- Blogging, 5.88%
- Cell phones/SMS, 5.88%
- Social bookmarking (e.g. del.icio.us, Furl), 5.88%
- Aggregation (republishing content from RSS feeds), 0.00%
- Tagging, 0.00%
- Wikis, 0.00%
- Other (posted here
A year and 8 months later, do you still think social networking and CMS can create the greatest impact for nonprofits?
Seems like social networking, in particular, is starting to reach its peak.
Chris Messina discussed some possible solutions to social networking fatigue in his post, Stop Building Social Networks.
Grassroots.org Toolbox
The Grassroots.org Toolbox will empower nonprofit organizations by granting free access to a suite of fully configured & hosted online tools, including content management, online event registration software, and CRM.
Above all else, we need financial support to help lay the foundation for the Toolbox’s ultimate success.
We know what technology tools our grassroots nonprofit clients need. We know how to configure those tools, we know how to build infrastructure to deploy those tools on a massive scale, and we have partners who can help us host those tools. We even know how to train and support those tools. What we need is the initial support to help us turn this knowledge into action.
Our ultimate goal is to empower 10,000 nonprofit organizations with the $10,000 worth of services through the free technology in the Grassroots.org Toolbox. Your seed funding will help make this is possible. Help us help us others grow.
We need development assistance specifically for:
- The integration of a client intake system with a CRM.
- The development of a custom provisioning system to automate Toolbox deployment.
- Additional tools and resources. Have a tool that you'd like to make available to nonprofits for free? Think it meets a demonstrated need among grassroots organizations? Work with us to make it happen!
We currently offer a complete guide to Search Engine Optimization (SEO) available at seo.grassroots.org. Alongside this service, we also offer free telephone consulting, made possible through in-kind donations from an SEO consulting firm.
We'd love to expand the SEO project to cover other aspects of internet marketing for nonprofits (how to use blogs, leverage social networking sites or bookmarking sites, use new media, etc to further a nonprofit organization's mission). Assistance could be in the form of expert articles or guides, telephone or online consulting, or something entirely different. Surprise us.
Many of the tools we are integrating into the Grassroots.org Toolbox are open source, and thus have been freely downloadable for years. However, “Free†though they may be, these tools cost thousands of dollars to install, learn, configure and support. In short, these tools may have no list price, but they are far from free to implement. The result? They're not empowering as many nonprofits as they could be.
- The Toolbox will automatically:
- provision and install these technology tools,
- configure them correctly for immediate use,
- host them permanently,
- -provide comprehensive training and support resources (both in traditional text and in new media, such as screencasts and training videos)
All for free.
To achieve this, we'll build an integrated user interface to manage Toolbox applications and services, under which we'll develop a flexible and scalable automatic provisioning system. We are assigning multiple staff members to develop exhaustive training and support materials in response to the needs of incoming clients and creating a publicly-available end-user guide for each of the tools we offer. The goal is the technological empowerment of nonprofit organizations everywhere.
Collaborative communities
Sometime last year I did a little reasearch into what some of these packages had to offer. I had several contstraints, wanting something compatible with the ASP & SQLServer platform I used as a business software developer, the appearance of a website rather than a blog and relative ease of construction.
Many of the packages were quite complex in the context of creating content and allocating permissions and in the end DotNetNuke seemed to satisfy most of my needs.
Most of them had a developer community doing interesting things with opensource and value added additions but when it came to collaboration in building content, there is still a little to be desired. I didn't get around to trying Drupal.
Whew - Web Site Launch
After quite a lot of work,my consulting company, working with The Cedar Cultural Center, just released a revamped web site. (August 23) The new site features music and video, a searchable calendar, and quite a lot more.
The Cedar is a well-established nonprofit music venue in Minneapolis, and features world music, roots music, and lots of other entertainers who are not supported by the major music industry.
The site is based on Drupal with quite a few stock and custom modules. There was a lot of collaborative work involved between my company and The Cedar.
- Steve Hanson's blog
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The Cedar Cultural Center
The Cedar Cultural Center is a nonprofit music venue in Minneapolis, MN. August 23, 2006 The Cedar launched a new web site. The site was built in collaboration with Cruiskeen Consulting LLC
The new site has many features. It is very rich in audio and video material, and features information about upcoming performances.
One of the most exciting upcoming events at The Cedar is the annual Nordic Roots Festival, which features music from the Nordic countries.
More information about The Cedar:
The Cedar (also known as the Cedar Cultural Center) is a highly eclectic music venue located in the vibrant West Bank district of Minneapolis. Renowned for hosting some of the best acts in folk, blues, jazz, indie rock and world music in an intimate space, the Cedar is a 501(c)3 non-profit, largely volunteer-driven organization and welcomes your support!
The Cedar's mission is to promote inter-cultural appreciation and understanding through the presentation of global music and dance. The Cedar is committed to artistic excellence and integrity, diversity of programming, support for emerging artists, and community outreach.
The Cedar is located in the historic Cedar Theater building, which opened in 1948 and operated as a movie theater until the 1970’s before falling into disuse. The Cedar Cultural Center was established in 1989 when local real estate magnate Keith Heller donated the theater to a non-profit started by Deb Martin and Mary Ann Dotsen, Minnesota STAR (Society for Traditional Arts and Resources). Their mission was “to support the preservation of cultural diversity by promoting and presenting traditional music and dance of many cultures.” Bill Kubeczko has been the artistic and executive director since 1993, and with the help of a small, dedicated staff and a legion of energetic volunteers, the Cedar has been presenting 150 or more high-quality shows every year since.
Choosing a platform for networking: an interview with Deborah Elizabeth Finn
Deborah Elizabeth Finn is a Massachusetts based independent consultant who helps bridge the gap between "distraught technophic social workers" and technology. One of her current projects is consulting with the Massachusetts Council of Human Service Providers on their selection of a CMS/CRM (Content Management System/Customer Relationship Management) system vendor. Deborah is helping the organization make their selection and will then help the chosen vendor and the Council build a solid working relationship.
The Council released a Request for Proposals for the project that was crafted to include key hooks for the Open Source community and descriptions of the module types sought. They are also considering proprietary software if they determine that it best meets their needs.
Deborah hopes that a quality CMS/CRM system for the state's human service providers' association will be a showcase that can help the effort to build a state wide association of all nonprofit organizations generally.
For more information about Deborah's work, you can visit deborah.elizabeth.finn.com.
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