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hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://importantprojects.com/archives/000163.php At DrupalCon DC in March I got to meet Kent Bye of Lullabot face-to-face for the first time, which was great (great to meet all the Lullabots I hadn't met in person before, actually, and to catch up with... 163@http://importantprojects.com/ Conferences 2009-05-09T15:20:17+00:00 http://importantprojects.com/archives/000162.php Like I said in my last post, I'm on sabbatical this year, but today's still the fifth anniversary of Important Projects! In keeping with tradition, I made a vegan chocolate cake to celebrate :) If I've worked with you... 162@http://importantprojects.com/ General 2009-03-26T03:00:49+00:00 http://importantprojects.com/archives/000161.php Photo by fergusonphotography, November 2008 Apologies for recent silence — it's been quite a while since my last post! There are reasons for that, though — some big changes in both my professional and personal life have kept me... 161@http://importantprojects.com/ General 2009-02-16T22:27:28+00:00 http://importantprojects.com/archives/000160.php Today I took the bus to Brixton and spent the morning talking about two of my favourite subjects — risk management and iterative and incremental development — with the web team at CAFOD! Branislava (pictured below, sorting index cards)... 160@http://importantprojects.com/ Friends & Allies 2008-12-01T19:20:06+00:00 http://importantprojects.com/archives/000159.php Today is International Project Management day, a day that is: …intended to encourage project-based organisations worldwide or organisations who utilise project management methodologies to schedule some type of recognition event within their organisations or coordinated locally with others to truly... 159@http://importantprojects.com/ General 2008-11-06T11:54:35+00:00 http://importantprojects.com/archives/000158.php Last week I took the train to Machynlleth, Wales to spend two days talking about Scrum with Tincan, a conscious business specialising in the design, development and hosting of websites for not-for-profit arts organisations (like the National Theatre). They're... 158@http://importantprojects.com/ Friends & Allies 2008-11-04T09:27:48+00:00 http://importantprojects.com/archives/000157.php Today is November 1st, World Vegan Day, and the start of World Vegan Month! Happy World Vegan Day and World Vegan Month! Vegan catering for all! activism, environment, food, green, importantprojects, noanimalproducts, sustainability, vegan, worldveganday2008... 157@http://importantprojects.com/ General 2008-11-01T10:06:22+00:00 http://importantprojects.com/archives/000156.php Thanks for coming out to Drupal for NGOs at Development House last night! Those were some great presentations (from Anna Feldman of GreenNet, David Gildeh on the work he did for Ashoka and Thomas Muirhead of Macmillan Cancer Support)!... 156@http://importantprojects.com/ Conferences 2008-10-24T09:37:34+00:00 http://importantprojects.com/archives/000155.php A couple of weeks ago I was interviewed by Kathleen Ryan O'Connor for the "Do Good" series she's writing over at Projects@Work.com (a US-based project management site). You have to register to read the whole article (and I'm called Rod... 155@http://importantprojects.com/ General 2008-10-21T12:01:00+00:00 http://importantprojects.com/archives/000154.php Concern FAST is an annual fundraising campaign run by Concern Worldwide involving thousands of people and hundreds of schools in Ireland. Participants register to fast for a day and their friends and families to sponsor them to do so... 154@http://importantprojects.com/ Projects 2008-10-15T08:42:49+00:00 http://importantprojects.com/archives/000153.php Just a quick post to thank everyone for coming out to Drupal for NGOs on Monday — great to see/meet you! You are one motley crew (see above). Thanks as well to our presenters, Oliver McColl of GCAP and... 153@http://importantprojects.com/ Conferences 2008-10-01T13:54:39+00:00 http://importantprojects.com/archives/000152.php Politics is when people choose their words and actions based on how they want others to react rather than based on what they really think. From Driving Fear Out of the Workplace: Creating the High-Trust, High-Performance Organization, by Daniel Oestreich... 152@http://importantprojects.com/ General 2008-09-26T13:42:54+00:00 http://importantprojects.com/archives/000151.php Last Friday I travelled to Woodstock, Oxfordshire to spend the morning talking about Scrum with a dozen or so representatives of OLM Group, the UK's largest independent supplier of social care products and services (including Bettercaring, which I believe... 151@http://importantprojects.com/ Training 2008-09-24T13:00:57+00:00 http://importantprojects.com/archives/000150.php Alright! The next meeting of Drupal for NGOs will be held at the Comic Relief UK offices near Vauxhall 34 days from today! Presentations for September are TBD (and please contact me if you'd like to present) — watch... 150@http://importantprojects.com/ Conferences 2008-08-26T15:49:33+00:00 http://importantprojects.com/archives/000149.php Photo by rumpleproofskin, June 2006 I'm going on holiday! Tomorrow! I can't remember taking a vacation in the last 5 years but tomorrow Frankie and I are taking the train to Cornwall and staying for 10 days. See you... 149@http://importantprojects.com/ General 2008-08-05T16:43:35+00:00