Grant Kruger's blog

I just learned that Igal Koshevoy died yesterday, "following a long struggle with depression," the announcement gently stated. Igal was a huge force for good in Portland... and beyond.

I present two blog entries in one about our newest anti-spam tool, one boring and to the point and the other a homage to The Hobbit.

Anyone running a website that involves blogging, forums or filling out email forms knows that spammers are a major menace (and not a phantom menace). If you allow your users to make posts or comments, chances are you get more spam than legitimate content.

One MMT geek's review of NTEN's 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC), which is aimed primarily at the nonprofits and their technology needs.

Looking for great tools to help your organization improve efficiency and productivity or just make your life easier? Here's a list of a range of great tools that you never knew you needed.

Do you like our website? Do you want to build one with some of its features? Now you can. In the spirit of openness and sharing, we're offering the full recipe of all the Drupal modules and themes we used, the lessons we learned and some additional pointers. Take it from here!

Ever get an email from someone who seems to have met you to you, but that you don't remember and that you wanted a little reminder about? Or wanted to know more about someone you know only peripherally? Or want to have a simple and organized way to track notes about these people? You might want to try Rapportive.

By now, most of you have seen our ideas4oregon campaign (you can read the original announcement) and some of you might be wondering about the tools we used to run the campaign. I thought I'd outline what we did, for those who are interested.

Many people and organizations have asked us, why did we use Drupal to build this site and was it the right tool? As the one who advised it and did the bulk of the technical work, I thought I'd make that the subject of my first MMT Blog entry. Right from the beginning of the project to rebuild our site, we knew we wanted to use open source and we knew we wanted to share what we'd learned with other nonprofits and, well, everyone. We were hopeful that the lessons we learned and our shared thinking and ideas would be useful to others. So here follows our rationale.