Hemside arbete - vill du vara med och bedriva Twigas hemsida?

Twigas nya hemsida är en stor förändring från den gamla html hemsidan. Den nya hemsidan är byggd i Drupal CMS (content management system). Det är en dynamisk databas som driver hemsidan och som behöver sin egen form av omsorg och underhåll. I princip så är det två områden som behöver hanteras - innehåll och medlemskap (hemside användare och Twiga medelmmar). Här finner du mer specifik information på Engelska.

Content management includes:

• All the sites pages
• News
• Events
• Comments
• Forum posts
• Categories
• Images & other media
• Translations
• Assisting members manage their own content

User management includes

• The Drupal user system
• CRM

Within each of these areas there are a number of tasks that need to be done regularly.

Content management tasks:

• Submitting pages, news, events on behalf of Twiga members
• Checking and approving content submitted by Twiga members
• Modifying / editing existing pages
• Uploading images and video
• Managing forms and attachments (such as PDF's)
• Link checking - making user links to other sites are still good
• Comment approval and moderation
• Spam checking - making sure the site is free of spam
• Managing the Translation project - getting as much of the core site translated as possible
• Spelling and grammar checks
• Conversing with Twiga members who want to manage their own content
• Updating categories and other core site features such as Legal Terms and Conditions
• Creating Groups

User management tasks:

• Adding new users (admin registered)
• Approving new users (self registered)
• Modifying users roles (upgrading them to more powerful roles)
• Managing the CRM - inputting data into the CRM and keeping track of the Twiga membership via the CRM

Drupal User System

Drupal has a powerful "Users" system that allows us to set up "roles" and assign users to a role. Users in a role can do certain things in the site. We need to manage the users and their roles - mostly this invloves changing a users role so they can do more stuff - such as being able to submit news to the site, or post comments in the forum without approval.

From time to time a user will have problems. We need to be there to help new and existing users when they have problems, such as not being able to log into the site (maybe they lost their password) or help them create their own news or pages.

The CRM or "Constituent Relationship Manager"

The CRM allows Twiga to manage its membership via the website. All twiga members can be entered into the CRM database. Using this information we can do some pretty cool things:

"CiviCRM is the first open source and freely downloadable constituent relationship management solution. CiviCRM is web-based, open source, internationalized, and designed specifically to meet the needs of advocacy, non-profit and non-governmental groups. CiviCRM is a powerful contact, fund-raising and eCRM system that allows you to record and manage information about your various constituents including volunteers, activists, donors, employees, clients, vendors, etc. Track and execute donations, transactions, conversations, events or any type of correspondence with each constituent and store it all in one, easily accessible and manageable source."

To learn more about CiviCRM please visit http://osuosl.civicrm.org/ As you can see we can "manage" the Twiga membership via the CRM and that is precisely what it is intended for. If you are interested in any of the above tasks are work areas please contact me directly - Jeff Burns 0709 600 416. I will post a link to my contact form when the new site goes live later this month.