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May 10, 2013 - 09:54 -- Sean

You are all invited on Monday, May 20th, the first day of DrupalCon Portland, to honor Aaron Winborn's ongoing contributions to the Drupal community and to celebrate Drupal's power to make the world a better place.

I have to admit that I don't exactly know how to write about this event. I don't know Aaron personally. But like most of us, I've been working with his contributed code and following his writings on Drupal for several years. If you follow Aaron's blog, you know that he and his family are struggling with his ALS. You may have seen Aaron's G.D.O. post two weeks back looking for volunteers to help him continue to code in spite of the progression of his illness.

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ThinkShout welcomes Brett Meyer to the team!

March 13, 2013 - 15:18 -- Sean

ThinkShout is very proud to announce that Brett Meyer has joined our team as our new Technical Project Manager!

Brett has a long history of making significant contributions to the nonprofit tech community, and for the last six years Brett was the Director of Communications at NTEN. Brett brings a wealth of knowledge surrounding nonprofit tech goals and strategies, and we are thrilled to have him on our team working closely with our nonprofit clients.

As our technical project manager, Brett's primary objective is to help guide nonprofits we work with from discovery through launch, and to help us focus on our mission of developing useful and sustainable open source tools that help our clients achieve their goals.

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ThinkShout welcomes Betsy Ensley, Director of Professional Services

August 19, 2012 - 14:00 -- Sean

ThinkShout is proud to announce that Betsy Ensley has joined our team as our new Director of Professional Services.

Betsy has made significant contributions to the Drupal community over the last two years. You may know Betsy from her work as the Director of Marketing at Phase2, her volunteer service with the Drupal Association's Marketing and Branding Committee, and her organizing efforts with the DC Drupal Users' Group.

Our excitement for bringing Betsy on board hit a new level at the end of July watching her organize the DC Drupal community's second annual CapitalCamp (one of the premier Drupal camps in the country, which she helped establish in 2011). Betsy was well-appreciated in the DC Drupal community and we can't wait to see her get involved in here in the Pacific Northwest.

At ThinkShout, Betsy will continue her Drupal community involvement (so, don't worry, you'll continue to see her at Camps and Cons across the country). As our Director of Professional services, Betsy will help us focus on our three primary business objectives:

  • Providing our clients with the highest-value open source solutions possible;
  • Growing our business sustainably as premier open source contributors; and
  • Fostering the ongoing professional development of our team.

Welcome, Betsy! We couldn't be more happy to have you on our team.

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Engagement Scoring - A Case for Native Drupal CRM

July 5, 2012 - 14:01 -- Sean

Engagement scoring - often referred to as "engagement analytics" or "engagement metrics" - is a relatively new concept in measuring the interactions between site visitors and your website. Web analytics packages such as Google Analytics generally focus on measuring quantitative analytics - or the number of page visits and clicks. Engagement scoring focuses on measuring the quality of these interactions by weighting the value of different types of interactions. For example, sharing an article from your website to a social network might be worth 5 engagement points, whereas commenting on a blog post might be worth 10 engagement points.

For almost half a decade, the Drupal User Points module has provided a framework for measuring website engagement of logged-in site visitors.

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Views Without Views… Introducing "Relevant Content Bean"

June 16, 2012 - 10:51 -- Sean

The Relevent Content Bean provides your site administrators with a light-weight query builder for creating blocks that contain nodes. Like Views, Relevant Content Bean allows you to select the number of node results to display, apply filters to the list of returned nodes, change the display options for these nodes, and manage the sort order of these results.

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2012 Techno-Lounge at the National River Rally in PDX, OR

March 3, 2012 - 12:13 -- Sean

ThinkShout is proud to announce that we will be helping River Network organize the first ever "Techno-Lounge" event at the 2012 National River Rally in Portland, OR. This reception on the evening of Saturday, May 5th, will provide an opportunity for technology leaders in the river protection and conservation community to show-off their wares, their maps, their apps and other web-based tools. By participating in this event, organizations can help their fellow watershed advocates better understand how they can leverage technology to support our shared goals of conserving rivers across the country. Also...participants will have the opportunity to drink great PNW beer, as the Techno-Lounge will be a cornerstone of the Rally reception on Saturday night.

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