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  • Making Membership Count

    • 27 Jun 2011
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    NAESP's member survey aligns website content with members' interests.

    Keeping track of a worldwide association membership can be quite a challenge. Like many associations its size, NAESP uses an association management database to connect with its 30,000 members and affiliates. While the software works well for staff, it's never been self-service for members.

    Worse, website activity and email statistics -- NAESP's main points of contact with members -- have been out of reach of the AMS database.

    Until now. The association brought el-studio.com in to connect AMS functions to the association's web site, allowing members to keep their information up-to-date. We also built functionality that allows state affiliates to access current membership information.

    On the content side, the new web-to-AMS capabilities have inspired NAESP to conduct their first membership survey online. Results are saved to the AMS, where they can be used to target both email and website content to interested members.

    "The NetForum-Drupal integration allows us to be much more responsive to our members," says Ernest Lilley, NAESP's Director of Technology. "And our affiliates love the access we can now give them."

     

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  • Tally4 makes your checkins count

    • 28 Sep 2010
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    Tally4.com is a web application that helps you put your Foursquare checkins to work.

    Whether it's working out, eating local or volunteering, you're out-and-about for a purpose. Foursquare records these checkins -- it lets your friends know when you arrive, and can give you coupons. It's great for shopping, but what about for goals? 

    That's where Tally4 comes in.  

    Tell the app what you care about, and Tally4 shows your pertinent checkins. See at a glance when you've worked out, and when you, um, may have slacked.

    Are your friends interested in the same stuff? Tally4 keeps score, so you can race them to your goals.

    It's perfect for fitness, comparing restaurant notes or tracking club attendance.

    Tally4 was conceived and built by el-studio.com, using the Foursquare API.

    • Try Tally4 with your Foursquare login: http://tally4.com  

    Aboutfoursquare.com's review sums it up: 

    Tally4 is yet another interesting way to use foursquare’s checkin data.
    via aboutfoursquare.com

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  • NAESP.org's Association Management Plugs Into Drupal

    • 21 Aug 2010
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    The National Association of Elementary School Principals relies on NetForum software to manage its sixteen thousand members. While that software works well for membership management, the association was not as happy with their commercial content management software. It had been years since a redesign, and the association's web staff did not relish the cost or inflexibility of working with the existing CMS.

    Because of its flexibility and extensibility, Drupal was a much better fit. And with Drupal's open-source price, NAESP stood to save on licensing costs.

    They brought el-studio.com on as a Drupal guardian angel for the project, advising and training staff on the best way to implement Drupal. Our work included —

    • Server configuration for hosting on Amazon's AWS cloud services 
    • Integration of NetForum sign on and e-commerce with Drupal content 
    • Panels implementation and training so that NAESP staff can assemble complex layouts on their own 
    • Integration with Facebook like and Twitter's retweet 
    • Configuration of organic groups for association committee work 
    • Content migration 

    Initial launch went quite quickly, with el-studio.com working iteratively with staff to bring more features online.

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  • The Case Foundation's Campaign for Change

    • 21 Jan 2009
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    Change Begins With Me.

    Business Objective: Use the excitement around the Obama inauguration to encourage folks to commit to change in their own communities

    Technical Challenges:

    • Collecting commitments from what turned out to be more than 12,000 people
    • Very compressed project timeline – from concept to launch in a couple of weeks
    • Modest fraud protection
    • Partners wanted to collect changes from forms embedded into their own sites
    • Promotional prizes required selection of winners throughout the campaign

    Technical Solution: A Ruby on Rails application with a form and email verification. An administration view included logic for randomly drawing winners. An API allowed partner sites to submit commitments directly to the application.

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  • Online Grant Application with Expert Review & Public Voting

    • 13 May 2008
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    The Case Foundation's Make It Your Own Awards

    Business Objective: Grant application and review software for The Case Foundation's first online grant competition.

    Technical Challenges:

    • Security of the public voting that determined the final grantees
    • Grant review by volunteer reviewers, so ease-of-use was critical 
    • Grantees were given blogs, photo and video upload space, and fundraising widgets
    • Scaling to handle expected traffic from the press

    Technical Solution: A Drupal installation with customized workflow rules for grant application and review. Built to scale on Amazon’s EC2 cloud servers. Public voting integrated a Flash ballot (designed for us by Hirshorn Zuckerman Design Group) with a backend voting engine by Election-America.

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