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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