This session will provide an overview of Phase II's OpenPublic Distribution tailored to the needs of local, state, and federal government agencies.

Drupal, one of the leading Open Source platforms for creating and managing dynamic web sites, has helped spark a revolution in schools and non-profits like no other. Capabilities once reserved for the Enterprise market are now attainable by even the smallest organizations. Schoolyard's mission is providing those capabilities to K-12 independent schools.

Slides: 

Schoolyard_FLDC.pdf

Drupal is open source software maintained and developed by a community of 630,000+ users and developers. Learn how Open Source and Drupal are saving nonprofits worldwide in IT costs while providing fast, easy code development.

One of the highlights of Florida DrupalCamp is the Coding for a Cause Event where over 30 Drupal developers give back to the community. This year three lucky nonprofits will get a new website. Ben and Ryan will give you the backstory and play-by-play game film on how this all comes together. This talk is “must ” for those planning to contribute or spectate at Sunday’s Coding for a Cause event.

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If you are volunteering on Sunday for Coding for a Cause, we ask that you:

Some Distros we may demonstrate:

• OpenPublic
• OpenAtrium
• CiviCRM
• OpenOutreach
• Springboard
• Conference Organizing Distribution

Allyson has been named one of "Top Tech Titans" by the Washingtonian, one of the Most Influential Women In Tech by Fast Company and one of the top 30 women entrepreneurs to follow on Twitter by Forbes for her leadership role in technology and social media. Allyson will describe her decade of experience in helping non-profit organizations create dynamic, award-winning websites and online marketing and recruitment campaigns.

Where to start? Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube - these public platforms are free to use, but they still require people and time to maintain and sustain an effective presence. What questions should we be asking to choose where and how we can best use these tools to serve our mission and support our constituencies. This session is a workshop that will help attendees focus on how to plan, launch and grow a strong social media presence that meets their organizational goals.

The role of libraries in today’s technology culture is expanding: To serve the increasing base of socially-needy in our communities, libaries now provide ready access to family assistance, healthcase, housing to immigration. Learn how OCLS got an online system up adn running quickly and easily using Drupal.

Kickstarter, microphilanthropy, Causes.com, philanthroteens, open challenges. There’s a digital revolution underfoot allowing nonprofits to tap into an immense base of ordinary people with extraordinary generosity: In 2009, even during a deep recession, individual giving drove 82% of the $300 billion donated that same year. How can your nonprofit participate too?

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the process of optimizing your website to increase visibility through 'organic' search engine results. Properly done, it can dramatically increase your site's traffic, which can lead to increased sales.

Drupal is one of the most SEO friendly platforms available. Through various core and contrib modules, Drupal gives the site-builder world class tools to perform heavy-duty SEO optimization.

During this presentation, I'll walk the attendee through powerful SEO concepts and Drupal-specific tools including:

Slides: 

seo-drupal.pdf