GoGreenExpo: Get discounts and free admission!

The largest green/eco trade show in the South is happening this weekend in Atlanta. We hope you’ll join us!
Today (Friday): B2B expo: If you are an executive/leader/purchases for an organization or company, come to GoGreenExpo for free! Enjoy the smaller crowds and the intimacy with vendors so you can find new partners who do business [...]

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June Atlanta Plone Meeting

This month’s Atlanta Plone meeting was a little bit of a rush job, as we had no presentation topic up until the time the meeting started and there were even prizes offered for anyone who was willing to present.  Despite this, we had a really nice meeting.  Brandon Rhodes took up the challenge of presenting [...]

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Earth Day Atlanta Events: My plans and invitation for submission of your ideas

The explosion of “green” programs, organizations and events in the Atlanta area over the last 5 years is impressive. When we first relocated ifPeople to Atlanta, there was almost nothing on the green scene. Now, it is a dizzying array of activity. As I’m trying to get a handle on my own plans for the [...]

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Atlanta’s Mayor Franklin Announces Sustainability Report and Carbon Footprint

St. Patrick’s Day was all about “green” at Atlanta City Hall today with a press conference with Mayor Franklin, the Office of Sustainability and Sustainable Atlanta. The occasion was the release of the Sustainability Plan for Atlanta as well as the municipal carbon footprint. Both are the first of their kind for Atlanta and will [...]

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Jeff Sutherland on Getting Hyperproductive Teams

Jeff Sutherland, co-creator of Scrum, was at the Agile Atlanta / Turner Agile group meeting tonight in Atlanta, GA to give a talk called “Shock Therapy: Self Organizing in Scrum”.The talk was motivated by his history of work in teaching teams to do Scrum, which is designed to be 5-10x the productivity of industry-standard teams. [...]

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Registration open for Atlanta trainings!

You can now register online for the upcoming trainings from ifPeople at the Georgia Center for Nonprofits. Those trainings include:

Techniques and Tools for Online Fundraising (Feb 10)

Social Media 101: Online Communication as Stakeholder Engagement (Feb 20)

Open Source Content Management(April 2)

Creating a Social Media Plan (April 23)

You can get to the registration form from any of [...]

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New lineup of trainings for nonprofits in Atlanta announced

We’re excited to see our local trainings and webinar series shaping up quickly in 2009! Our first training at the Georgia Center for Nonprofits in December was a big hit and we were asked to do six more, each on a new topic. We thought that was plenty for the year…but they are all scheduled [...]

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PyAtl meeting: Introducing Plone

I attended my first Atlanta Python user group’s meeting (PyAtl) this month (see the meeting announcement). I have a regular conflict on Thursday evenings (soccer:), but made this one to give a talk on Plone. Our local Atlanta Plone users group has merged with PyAtl and serves as a Special Interest Group now.
Brandon Rhodes opened [...]

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A Plonilicious Month

This year has gotten off to a great start. Go 2009! I just realized we have 3 Plone events going on this month:

Reaching Website Nirvana with Plone, at Atlanta Plone. A warmup for the talk the next night at PyAtl, but with a slightly more Plonista crowd A talk that has been loosely [...]

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Plone Pizzas at Atlanta Plone

You may have recently seen a holiday treat suggestion from Redomino, with the corresponding recipe for Plone Cookies. For those that are looking for a more savory treat, how about Plone Pizzas?
The mini-pizzas, pictured here from last nights Atlanta Plone meeting are wheat-free, almost entirely vegan, and tasty .
The meeting was good too…attracting our [...]

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