Introduction

I have been in a nonprofit for two years, and have worked to put together a custom information solution for a club of 2,000, using a CMS. I started trying to use a wiki, looked at SocialText, looked at Jotspot, and so forth. We chose Drupal and here's the result.

I started off about a year and a half ago by putting together a web advisory team, composed of neighborhood industry experts. Since we're in the middle of the silicon valley, we got some awesome experts. Top IT talent at Sun, the now-retired fellow who wrote Webcrawler (thank you Brian), and so forth. Since I'd been off raising my child for a while, it was great fun to see what was out there.

Now I'm doing a new venture and am relieved that it's a for profit venture, where I don't have to enact the more horrifying moments from high school (as long as I stay out of board rooms ) See? You can't take me anywhere. At any rate, I'm what the call strategically tactical. I like tactical. However, I'm old enough and smart enough to know that tactical without a good plan, linked to the company's ultimate goals (did I hear the phrase "bottom line?") is just ... pissing in the wind. Pardon my use of the vernacular.

After 1.5 years dealing with a nonprofit, I'll be reveling in working on a stealth project. And with a 5.5 year old, if I choose to put the occasional randy phrase in a blog, well... at least I don't teach it to my kid!