If you are a nonprofit techie based in DC or will be attending the Bridge Conference August 1st at the National Harbor then you should definitely check out DevDay. DevDay's promises to provide sessions that are technical but that will also create a "bridge" between marketers and their developer counterparts. I think that this is a great approach to a conference because all too often the techies at nonprofits are siloed into one corner of the office while the marketing and fundraising teams are at the opposite corner. This leads to a lack of integrated teams and severely hinders nonprofits communications and fundraising programs because staff is not working collaboratively.
Check out some of the great sessions happening at DevDay.
- Design for Developers: Add a little design magic to your latest project
- 4H Club My4H Resource Portal: Advanced Engagement Tracking using Events
- Do more with the Convio API using luminateExtend.js
- I hate my CMS! Drupal migration magic with the Migrate API
- Sunlight Labs: How the Sunlight Foundation creates the tech that opens up .GOV
- When You Don't Have Time for a Redesign: Practical Techniques for Making an Existing Site Design Responsive
Speaker include a range of nonprofit techie rawk stars from the space such as:
- Tom Lee of Sunlight Labs
- Anne Dougherty of Rad Campaign
- Kojo Duncan of CDR Fundraisng Group
- Daniel Ryan who was the Director of Frontend Development for President Obama’s 2012 election campaign
- Annie Stringer of MGH
- and more