Project management consulting and training for social change organisations.
A couple of exciting updates since my last entry on Project IMPACT:
First, the International Secretariat of Amnesty has selected US-based CivicActions as its partner for the technical development stream of the project. Another very hard decision (CivicActions was short-listed for the contract along with Drupal internationalisation module sponsors Development Seed) but one the team at Amnesty is very happy with — we just spent 2 very productive days here in London with the CivicActions team kicking-off this stream of the project and everyone seems very excited about the months ahead :-)
And next, we've just about completed the re-architecture phase of the project. Fortune Cookie has delivered a draft of the user interface specification we plan to use to theme the new site and the folks at CivicActions are busy determining the ways in which it can be "Druplified" — very exciting stuff. There is NO stopping this train ;-)
More soon!
amnestyinternational, civicactions, civicrm, crm, cms, drupal, fortune cookie, humanrights, impact, importantprojects, nptech, projectmanagement, softwaredevelopment, technicaldevelopment
Just this past Sunday, the Web Activist Collective and GreenNet put on Reclaim the Web at the Development House in London — a free Web 2.0 conference (and vegan potluck) designed specifically for NGO volunteers (i.e. those working for social change but who haven't necessarily received training in the use of social software/Web 2.0 tools).
Just like Take Back the Web last October, the day combined practical workshops for online activism with open space discussions around emerging technologies and social change, and just like last October, a group of really amazing people showed up (like the inimitable Mamading, pictured above) — the best thing about organising these events for me by far is the people I get to work with and meet, so thank you WAC, thank you Anna and GreenNet, and thank you everyone who came out on a beautiful Sunday to spend the day (mostly) indoors to take part :)
activism, conference, grassroots, importantprojects, NGO, nptech, reclaimtheweb, training, web2.0
