Drupal

These are the notes from the Content Management with Drupal sessions presented at T4T on 3/15/2013.

 The following are resources that I use or have used for getting better knowledge about Drupal and some places on the Drupal website that are worth reading.  

The following are the resources we discussed and modules we review in the T4T Drupal session on 11-6-12.

CiviCRM has been a technology that we have loved for a long time but in the past year it has blossomed to have even more features to help nonprofits manage their contacts, donations, events, memberships, email, campaigns, cases and much more. With every release CiviCRM adds exciting features that make it better and easier to use. 

Every 6 months, Dries Buytaert the founder of the Drupal web development platform presents a State of Drupal. This post is written to look at Dries’ presentation from a consumer point of view.

There are discussions on the web about how to use the Drupal Backup and Migrate Module with CiviCRM. This post provides simple insturctions for doing this by using just configurations settings of Backup and Migrate and not changing your settings.php file.

Yesterday the new version of the Drupal content management system was released in its 7th version. Most of our readers probably say, Drupal? What’s that? 7th version, so what?

I have not written for a couple of days because I needed to think about all that happened before I could write about it. The last day of DrupalCon was filled with learning, making connections for Denver DataMan and making friends in the community.

Yesterday I heard Diana M. Dupuis (@mooncougar on Twitter) of Four Kitchens say in a presentation about training that users “don’t climb mountains they hike paths.” This is the best way to say what Denver DataMan has been trying to say for a long time. We train users to hike the paths that make sense for them so they can get to the tools they need.

The first full day of programs has been a lot of fun and a lot of learning. Now if talking about how new web technologies are going to make the world a better place is not fun for you, well, then you would probably feel like you were lost in a different world. I must say that at times I feel that way too as my role at Denver DataMan is to work with people who build all the new cool things and that presents the opportunity to learn and grow which isn’t always easy no matter who you are.