I gave this presentation on 18th July at WordCamp in Manchester, UK. It assesses how suitable WordPress can be for small nonprofit organisations and gives advice on working and volunteering in the voluntary sector.
Making Links is a nonprofit technology conference that took place in Melbourne in mid November 2009. They held an additional Intensive Web Developers Day and I ran one of the sessions, on the topic of getting your nonprofit’s website noticed. Here’s the presentation to accompany the workshop.
I’m at Software Freedom Day, Melbourne today. It’s a fairly small event which attracts some interesting people (yes, geeks) to listen to talks and discuss open source software.
Kathy Reid gave a talk on beginner’s WordPress. She’s an assured presenter and did a great job of guiding us through its basic features and how they can be used to edit the content of a website. In her advanced session later in the day I picked up some practical tips on improving the security in WordPress – WordPress balances out the need for security with the need to keep the product simple and there are ways to improve this. By the way, Kathy’s also a top knitter.
Simon Hobbs from Em Space is now presenting about Drupal, with a very visual, diagrammatic presentation explaining how this CMS works. I’m intending to use Drupal more in future so this demonstration is a useful primer. Em Space have done some great websites for nonprofit clients.
I’m hunting round trying to find someone who can support an open source product called CiviCRM because a nonprofit organisation I visited recently are considering using it. It’s a client relationship application that can sit behind Drupal on an organisation’s website. Anyone out there know someone who supports CiviCRM?
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