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DrupalCamp Brings Florida IT Community Together
February 02 2010
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NFi Studios

A dedicated community of Open Source content management software developers from throughout the Sunshine State are convening February 20th and 21st at the annual Florida DrupalCamp in Altamonte Springs.

This year, new and seasoned users of Drupal (Drupal.org) will spend Saturday participating in beginner, intermediate and advanced education tracks, and Sunday working together in a "Coding for a Cause" sprint to create a Drupal web site for a selected non-profit organization.

Non-Profits Embracing New Structure and Organization going into 2010
January 14 2010
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In his blog in December, Jeff Hurt recently declared “Associations must begin to consider and embrace new models of structure and organization or risk becoming obsolete and irrelevant.”   Quite a thought-provoking statement.  Needless to say, there are indeed critical issues facing association leaders in this digital age.  Nonprofits are seemingly aware of technology’s potential but for the most part, seem somewhat mystified as to how to bring it into play to produce a positive outcome.   

Relevance Meets the Real-Time Web
January 12 2010
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The major search engines are always adjusting their algorithms for tracking the consistency and relevancy of new content publication, video publishing, mobile device access, and social media participation.

Help Support the Social Media Club in Orlando
January 06 2010
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Social Media Club has been organized for the purpose of sharing best practices, establishing ethics and standards, and promoting media literacy around the emerging area of Social Media. This is a global conversation amongst a diverse community of practitioners where the many different people who care about social media can come together to discover, connect, share, and learn.  There is also have a 'fan' page set up for the global Social Media Cub. 

SMC’s core mission is to:

Big Ideas for Chapter Leaders
January 04 2010
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Cynthia D'Amour works with associations that want to get more members involved and leaders who want outrageous results. Her blog is designed to give chapter leaders food for thought - in a fun way. Her blog was recently focused on Acronym.

Acronym  has been developing theme months on a semi-regular basis, and for December reached out for help asking for some creative thinking about big ideas. It was called, “what if” month.  The comments below reflect a few recent suggestions for finishing the sentence, “What if associations …?” i.e.