Social Design

Design is a big part of what CiviCore does.  We use participatory design practices to work with our clients in order to build the best possible information architecture for their needs.  Because of this, the practice of design is an area of great interest to us.  By employing innovative design practices, we see a great opportunity to make positive and lasting change on the local, national, and international levels.  There have been several interesting articles published in the last few weeks that we thought were well worth reading, and we'd like to share them with you.  Check 'em out:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/11/06/berger.qanda/index.html

http://www.ssireview.org/articles/entry/design_thinking_for_social_innovation/

http://www.ideo.com/work/item/human-centered-design-toolkit/

CiviCore attends the Rebuilding Together National Conference!

Last week, CiviCore Project Manager Joni Zisman attended the Rebuilding Together National Conference in Washington, D. C.  Here's what Joni had to say about the event:  "The Rebuilding Together Conference in DC last week was a hoot!  It was great to see that attendance was over double last year!  Lots of folks from affiliates using or interested in using the database stopped by - one even said she wanted to get a CiviCore tattoo, she loves the database so much!"

We would like to thank Rebuilding Together for being such great clients, and we look forward to attending their National Conference again next year!

CiviCore is now on Twitter!

Check us out at www.twitter.com/civicore !

Community Information - Why it matters

CiviCore presented at the annual American Evaluation Association Conference in Orlando, FL. The focus of the presentation was on the value of community information resources to those working in the social sector. We got to demo our cool community information projects such as Piton.org, ColoradoSchoolChoice.org and CivicIndicators.org. We also discussed preliminary results of our study on how this type of information makes a difference in the community. Thanks to those in attendance for the great discussion. For a copy of presentation slides click here.

Operation Jump Start and CiviCore to co-present at Youth Mentoring Conference

We are proud to announce that we were recently invited to present alongside Operation Jump Start Executive Director Dara Cerwonka at the 11th Annual Friends for Youth Mentoring Conference. The conference is titled: Youth Mentoring 2.0: The Impact of Technology on Programs and Relationships, and will be held in Northern California on January 21 and 22 of 2010.

Our session is tentatively titled “One Giant Leap: Moving from Paper and Spreadsheets to an Integrated Database Tracking System." We look forward to this great opportunity not only to present alongside Operation Jump Start but also to learn even more about the field of youth mentoring.