If I were in charge… journalism and technology would not just become better connected, but the newsroom culture would take on best practices that have worked well for software development. At this year’s Online News Association conference, a pre-conference session discussed how to relate agile software development best practices to the newsroom and a conference session reiterated the value of #fail.

I presented about how once newsrooms embrace the culture of #fail and remove barriers to it, there are a lot of tactics and tools from the tech industry that can help journalists:

Last weekend, I participated on a panel at the Online News Association conference: ‘If I Were in Charge, I’d _____’. I would #fail.

More detailed blog post coming very soon, but for now, my slides. You can also see my presentation at the very end of the video linked above.

I gave a presentation at Drupaldelphia 2011 on CiviCRM and an overview of lessons learned from our development process. In lieu of a PowerPoint, I put together a list of some key resources from when I was researching CRM planning in general and CiviCRM specifically.

Dean Graham presentation: Spreadsheets to CRM This is an incredible overview of the CRM implementation process. He estimates that the process takes 4 months to 2 years, and that is totally accurate.