The Commons Community is our general membership group. This is the place for you to come to find helpful tips on using the site, read important member notifications, and ask questions and provide feedback to the site administrators.
We'll also use this space to post events and other announcements that are of interest to all members of the site.
Consultantcommons needs your feedback!
We designed the site for people like you, and would love to get your reactions to it. Do you love it? Hate it? Please take a moment to share your candid feedback. We want this site to help consultants in the field and we truly value your input.
Welcome to the new site!
Welcome! We have finally launched the new site design which includes a number of new features. Below is a summary of what's new and how things have changed from the 'beta' version.
Working Groups
To better organize the site content and encourage member contribution, we've moved from a category and forum structure to using Working Groups.
We've implemented Drupal's Organic Groups module to create Working Groups which have the following features:
Definitions of Success in Software Development
A software development project is successful if it delivers the value expected for no more than the cost expected. This means.
• The software is ready on time.
• Creating the software cost what it was supposed to cost.
• The software does what it needs to do.
• The software is not crippled by bugs.
• The software gets used, and does make a positive impact. It is valuable.
The first two, of course, are often related to each other. The time we
spend to make software is a big part of the cost, because the largest cost
Software Outsourcing
Software outsourcing is a job contract awarded by a contracting party from a country to a company having a team of human resource with a definite skill set sitting in another country. On completion of the proposed job the software is shipped to the clients organization.
Membership & Association Management Software - Managing Online Member Services
Not Membership Software and Association Management Software is equal to the task of managing the membership information of volunteer and non-profit organizations and associations. Most such organizations simply lack the resources to devote to proactive membership management. The answer to this common problem is to automate online member services and integrate them with your membership software.
Hosting your own Event Registration
I have been having trouble finding Event Reistration solutions that can be hosted in house. I am not overly impressed with services that charge $3-$6 per reistrant when my clients are registering thousands of participants every year. To be paying these kinds of fees rather than using an in house hosted solution with a far lower cost seems much more rational. Most of my clients are already involved in some form of credit card processing.
Managing Nonprofit Technology Projects
Location
Are technology projects a source of frustration, confusion, or excessive cost within your organization? Are you curious about whether you're following best practices and selecting the best tools as you apply technology in your programs and operations? Would you like to meet others solving similar problems and facing similar challenges?
Managing Nonprofit Technology Projects is an event series designed to help you better manage technology projects in your nonprofit or as a consultant to nonprofits. Idealware and Aspiration are hosting our second Nonprofit Technology Project Management event in Oakland, California on Tuesday and Wednesday, May 20th and 21st, 2008. The first event in New York was a big success, and sold out well in advance.
A detailed agenda for the event is now available at http://mntp.aspirationtech.org/index.php/Event_Agenda. The agenda will continue to evolve up to and during the event, as we dialog with participants and strive to meet specific needs in the domain of technology project management for nonprofits.
Informal, information-rich, discussion-based sessions will allow participants to compare processes, tools, successes, and lessons learned. We will discuss areas such as team collaboration, project planning, software selection, migration, and project roll-out, and map out the software tools – from project management packages to collaborative communication to issue tracking and more – that support successful technology projects.
Complete details are at
http://www.aspirationtech.org/events/mntp-sf
and you can register directly at
http://tinyurl.com/yrttkd
And please blog it, forward it, and otherwise let folks know about this unique event.
We look forward to seeing you there!
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Allen Gunn
Executive Director, Aspiration
+1.415.216.7252
www.aspirationtech.org
2008 Netsquared Conference (N2Y3)
Location
This year’s NetSquared Conference will bring together a unique mix of people from the public and private sectors to develop and release Mashups designed to provide deeper insight into the social issues affecting communities around the globe. Highlighted will be the 21 Featured Projects voted on by the NetSquared community in round one of the Mashup Challenge.
If we’re successful, we’ll learn something about cross-sector collaboration, meet new and interesting people, and build unique Mashups that citizens, schools, and community-based groups everywhere can learn from, replicate, and build upon.
We have limited seats open to the public, so please register here.
A number of seats have also been set aside for our Sponsors, Engineers, Web Developers, etc. Please contact us if you belong in one of these categories.
A International Consortium of Experts
I am creating an international consortium of experts who would like to work with me.
TrainingPoint -- where did it go?
Does anyone know what happened to trainingpoint.org?
