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Money Where Our Mouth Is: Independence Day From Big Banking

A question recently came up on our internal team list. One of our team members was looking for recommendations on where to move her money.  She was currently banking with Chase and was disturbed by learning of the connection between Chase and BP.  This being just one reason of many to move your money from a big bank like Chase, she decided it was time.  Many of us at CivicActions bank with local banks or credit unions and the responses to her query brought many stories of others who had either recently or long been banking with credit unions.

How CivicActions Gives Back To The Drupal Community

Drupal Project founder Dries Buytaert's recent blog post on Contributing Back to Drupal came on the heals of much discussion of the same topic while I was the Lullabot DIWD Seminar. It is not a new conversation, at CivicActions we have been having it for as long as I can remember.

The Community Stipend Program

Recognizing that it was hard for our company as a company to "give back" beyond our sponsorship of DrupalCons and DrupalCamps we have made efforts to empower all of our team members to give back. A big part of this is our Community Work Stipend Program which we started in 2006. Team members who achieve a threshold of client work each month earn an additional stipend to do "community work". This can take the form of maintaining modules, working on patches for contrib or core, organizing or presenting at Drupal events like camps, cons or user groups, or writing documentation.

Newsweek: Is User-Generated Content Out?

Newsweek reports that the same entrepreneurs who funded the "user-generated revolution" are now looking to professionals to edit and produce online content. Are we at a turning-point with the "wisdom of the crowds" and moving to a more trusted and refined Web? http://www.newsweek.com/id/119091/page/1

Women and Drupalcon: 7%

It was noted on the first day of Drupalcon that 93% of attendees are men. After talking with a couple of other women working with CivicActions, I decided it was worth setting up a Birds of a Feather session: The Other 7% - Women and Drupal. At lunch time today, about 12 of us met up and it was great to meet some women in the community whose names I see regularly online like karens,webchick, add1sun, Allie Micka. We took some time to introduce ourselves and discussed how to encourage more women to join the Drupal community.

Back from the CivicActions June Retreat

We're fresh back from our June 2007 offsite retreat at the Wildwood Retreat Center in Guerneville, California! As always, pictures on Flickr in the CivicActions Group. Exciting news to come when we get caught-up on the email!

CivicActions is Gold Sponsor of DrupalCon in Barcelona

CivicActions is very proud to announce that we are a Gold Sponsor for the upcoming DrupalCon in Barcelona! DrupalCon will take place September 19th thru 22nd. Visit http://barcelona2007.drupalcon.org for more information and to sign-up for DrupalCon. We look forward to seeing you in Spain!

How To Build a Web Community

SEOMoz just posted a great article about how a web community is formed and fostered. Communities rally around a strong purpose. Successful communities build around the individual. Communities need an administrator and a set of ethical principles. And communities need purpose, participants, platform, policing, profiles, and ease of use.

We-Think: another "open source" book

I just read of Charles Leadbeater's book project, We-Think on World Changing. Leadbeater and his publisher have pre-released his book about new forms of collaboration and organization. From the introduction:
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