community organizing

Caros,

Gostaria de comunicar que nosso novo canal de IRC está criado...

Quem tiver acesso, entre lá.

Rede Freenode: irc.freenode.net
Canal: #drupal-br

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Howdy,

This spring I've been building a drupal website, and although I've talked with a couple folks in the Portland group, I haven't put it out here on the group list, so here it is - http://www.pdxpeace.org

The PDX Peace site is for a new coalition of peace/antiwar/social justice groups and individuals in Portland, formed during the organizing of the peace rally/march on 4/18/07 on the fourth anniversary of the war in Iraq. We're gearing up the website to be a resource for community organizing.

A priority right now is integrating CiviCRM as a organizing database - connected to the login - and be able to collect information from people while they are signing up - I somehow can't seem to manage getting a form from CiviCRM showing up in the registration page (instead of the webform we have now to 'join').

Other obvious 'to-do' items might be using OG for action groups, or use of views/cck, or Panel views for better organized front page items. I'm currently running this site on shared dreamhost server, but but thinking about getting it on an environment that might be better for running civicrm (bryght?).

Any comments, suggestions, ideas/tips or best practices for community organizing drupal websites, would be much appreciated. And if anyone is interested in helping out with the nuts and bolts of CiviCRM or pointing to the right place for information would be helpful.

For those of you who weren't able to attend this week's Drupal User Group Event, the main topic of discussion was community building.

I came across this article while reading over my blogroll today and felt it was on-topic enough to share with this group. It ventures a little bit into the area of users versus customers, but I believe many of the ideas are the same. An online community is a group of "browsers" and "members". To encourage movement from the "browser" to the "member" level, you much create a sense of belonging in the "browser".

Read on below:

http://37signals.com/svn/archives2/a_transaction_makes_a_customer.php