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For a technology upgrade to go smoothly, the smaller your budget, the more person hours you will need to invest in self-education and do-it-yourself work. Leave ample time for both the up-front planning process and for the project’s implementation.

tips and tricks with views 2 in drupal. Rewrite field

There is a trend now to use the many numerous tools out there like Constant Contact, Survey Monkey, Sales Force etc to solve the many needs of your organization. And it seems with the advent of the web and any new technology there are scattered solutions that in the end are really dealing with a bigger technology need. Now though there really is one place you can do most if not all of this. One centralized place to interface, store your data and therefore simplify your workflow.

Importing Content into Drupal 5. But need Multi Level Taxonomy!

Quick and simple look at how to consider drupal taxonomy and content types.

Getting a sense of your data needs and how to organize it.

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Quick and simple look at how to consider drupal taxonomy and content types.

Getting a sense of your data needs and how to organize it.

Seems like a rough ride for an unknown amount of time with the economy the way it is. What does this mean for your technology needs?
Does your website wait 3 years for an upgrade?
Does your contact database still make your office inefficient for 3 more years?
Do your desktops computers continue to run slow and not backed up?

We want to share with you some options you have even in these tough times to still move forward with your technology needs while not having to purchase new software, brandnew hardware or for a programmer to build you a website from scratch.

The Foreign Ministry is migrating all of its 11.000 desktops to GNU/Linux and other Open source applications. According to Schuster, this has drastically reduced maintenance costs in comparison with other ministries. "The Foreign Ministry is running desktops in many far away and some very difficult locations. Yet we spend only one thousand euro per desktop per year. That is far lower than other ministries, that on average spend more than 3000 euro per desktop per year."

CiviCRM is the first open source and freely downloadable constituent relationship management solution. CiviCRM is web-based, open source, internationalized, and designed specifically to meet the needs of advocacy, non-profit and non-governmental groups.

Knowledge and information are power.  Our ability to access information and communicate knowledge is the measure how well we've mastered our craft.

Good looking sites using drupal. Examples of how Drupal sites do not have to look like drupal sites.

Some Openoffice links

This article will help see the key fields to make sure the page you add is optimized for SEO (search engine optimization)

Drupal (the website software we use for our clients) received high scores in a satisfaction report by NTEN, a major Non-profit Technology organization. Drupal was evaluated in five categories, and had the highest number of responses, and the highest number of respondents that indicated Drupal is their primary CMS. Drupal is clearly popular with the non-profit crowd and this satisfaction survey provides the Drupal community with focused areas for improvement. Follow the link below to learn more

So Vista is here and you do not want to buy a computer with it on it.

So you start to think "I will buy a Mac"...

Well here is your chance to make an even better choice for your wallet and the local economy.

Either way you go Mac, Vista, Ubuntu (http://ubuntu.com) you will have to learn new icons and menus but the base work flow is all the same.

So now the question really comes down to money...

Mac: $2,000 (all the money goes out of the state unless you buy it at YES computers, in which case a fraction of the money stays in state.)