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Productivity and organization for creative types - Summary
 

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A week or two ago at the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference I lead a Birds of a Feather about Using Agile Software Development Methodologies to Manage your Organization.

When I submitted the session proposal I thought it would be a small group of people over lunch, talking about how they are introducing and driving agility in their organizations. 

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The 2012 NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference kicks off in San Francisco next week. As always, we're excited to be in such good company, surrounded my thousands of non-profits and organizations committed to making the world a better place.

Here are a few sessions and locations you can connect with our team:

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Last week I had the honor to speak at DrupalCon Denver on how international NGOs are leveraging Drupal for social change.

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I started a sabbatical several weeks ago, intending to take a break from my day-to-day responsibilities as CEO of CivicActions in order to create some space to nourish some parts of me that have been getting the short end of the stick from me.

Henry Poole, the company's founding manager and veteran professional services CEO has had the helm and will until I "return to the bridge." The sabbatical was and is intended to create a space in which I personally find balance.

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Living and working in the Bay Area is extraordinary and full of contradictions. On one hand, many of our friends and the people we interact with day-to-day are largely defining society's primary technology systems. They work at Facebook, Twitter, Google, Apple, Amazon, Zynga and nearly every technology and service we regularly use. And, by way of serendipity or coincidence, we are also surrounded by some of the world's most renown teachers in mindfulfuness, yoga and spiritual practice. On any given day you can practice at more than a hundred local yoga studios or from an endless number of workshops and classes.

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I am incredibly honored to have been selected to speak at the upcoming DrupalCon Denver on the topic of International NGOs Leveraging Drupal for Social Change. 

As part of the amazing support in the Drupal Community, all presenters have been requested to attend (or watch recordings of) webinars on how to give good presentations, led by Emma Jane Hogbin of Design to Theme.

Below is a summary of the two hour-long videos, which I initially intended as personal notes, but later realized others might find useful as well.

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Affinity Bridge's Katherine Bailey and Tom Nightingale gave an awesome introduction to the Search API module at the recent Vancouver Drupal User Group's meeting.

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As we've mentioned a number of times on this blog, CivicActions uses the Scrum framework.  To keep our skills up to date and to learn from the experiences of others we try to participate in the Scrum and Agile communities.

Last night at Agile Denver Charles Bradley (ScrumCrazy) talked about the major changes made to the 2011 Scrum Guide (PDF).

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