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So... as I had to write this for a Board Report (tip: writing Field Reports is a bit like writing Board Reports;), I thought I would include it here as a Field Report. It details what I have done over the past 6 months as NAMAC's Online Community Manager. …read more

While redeveloping the NAMAC site, I had some difficulty importing data from our ColdFusion CSM to a new Drupal CMS. There were many odd glitches in migrating the data. DON"T UNDERESTIMATE THE TROUBLE OF THIS. You will need to budget a sizeable amount of time to make this happen.…read more

Sometimes, particularly when using a custom Drupal module, you may need to a apply what's called a 'patch'. A patch is simply a text file with a set of instructions saying which lines of code within a module need to be changed, added or deleted to get the module to function better or more accurately.…read more

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Last week I attended an NTEN Member Appreciation Webinar entitled: 10 Tactics for Growing Your Community Online. As NAMAC's Online Community Manager, I found this webinar very helpful, engaging and well worth my time.…read more

here are two link to fun web development stuff to look at, learn from and implement - updated daily (at least). The most popular web development bookmarks on del.icio.us: http://del.icio.us/popular/webdev My favorite bookmarks on my del.icio.us account: http://del.icio.us/memeshift/webdev …read more

I cannot emphasize enough, the importance of PLANNING OUT YOUR WEBSITE. Before you can even start thinking about what the colors will be, you need to have a few things in place. 3 i can readily think of are: …read more

Leveraging the FaceBook API HISTORY/BACKGROUND facebook was initially for college students very little activity for people outside of formal networks (work, geographic region, school/college) myspace is growing much faster than facebook an API was released to the public for people to start developing it …read more