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Mic Check! How life as an activist prepared me to be a Drupal PM

By Lily Berman, November 18, 2020
Headshot of Lily featuring Kalamuna and BADCamp logos with a handshake and speech bubble graphics

BADCamp 2020 gave me a virtual stage to share stories and insights from my life as an activist, along with insights I think could benefit anyone working in a team. I dedicated years of my life to causes that matter to me. When I transitioned into working for a Drupal web development agency as a project manager, I thought I would be starting from scratch. I was wrong. 

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Topics: Community Conferences Drupal Nonprofits Project Management

The Kalamuna Team has Something Random to Share

By The Kalamuna Team, November 18, 2020
mash up image taken from the embedded video of our team doing things they love

Occasionally, you meet people in life that you just can’t wait to show off to your friends.  Not to brag (too much), but that’s our team.  Work relationships can feel like a random puzzle of personalities locking away chemistry and collective intelligence. But when you have quality people,  the randomness is a feature not a bug. We’re privileged to share our work lives with folks so varied and inviting. We’re bonded by an expertise and love for our craft and by a desire for that craft to be in service to others.

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Topics: Community Conferences

How to Move Beyond WCAG and Towards Authentic Digital Inclusion

By Andrew Mallis, November 17, 2020
Headshots of Andrew Mallis, Crispin Bailey and William Reuschel ahead of their talk at BADCamp

Do you feel distracted by a suite of automated tools, pages of report data, and feedback on work that was designed and developed weeks and weeks ago? If your antidote achieves #WCAG 2.1 AA conformance, you may be leaving more people behind than you think.

Accessibility and digital inclusion can be easier.

Authentic digital inclusion means ensuring that every end-user can actually use a digital asset as designed and intended. Let’s start there. 

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Topics: Accessibility Community Nonprofits User Experience

How to throw a successful virtual fundraising event

By Lily Berman, October 5, 2020
Gateway public school collage of their successful virtual fundraiser event

For one of our wonderful clients transforming education, this moment was the stuff of nightmares. Gateway Public Schools scheduled their annual community-building family fundraiser for Saturday, March 14, two days before the Bay Area officially began sheltering in place due to the spread of COVID. So, theirs became one of the first of many nonprofit galas and fundraising events that would need to move online. 

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Topics: Community Nonprofits

We stand against injustice and inequality. And, we’re here to do the work.

By Andrew Mallis, June 11, 2020

George Floyd’s murder has deservedly sparked the flame of social unrest. Rodney King, Oscar Grant, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor,  and countless more cases known and unknown continue to highlight the systemic and institutional racism that American capitalism depends upon.

Our very participation in the systems that breed oppression make us complicit. Society must change. Lives are at stake.

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Topics: Community Nonprofits

Alert Banner Best Practices (Web Design for Disaster, Part 1)

By Mike McCaffrey, March 30, 2020
A stylized collage of alert banner designs.
A well-designed alert banner will quickly and reliably catch the attention of your visitors when an emergency is in progress and direct them to additional instructions, resources, and updates. Read more
Topics: Accessibility Articles Community Drupal Guidance Responsive Design User Experience

How to work from home: Top tips from our remote team

By Patricia Rodriguez, March 26, 2020
Patricia's home office includes an ergonomic desk and comfy chair

Working from home (aka telecommuting) can be great for productivity and employee happiness. But not everyone is used to it – or prepared to do it (and many have been forced to recently because of COVID-19). At Kalamuna, we work on a distributed team, which means that most of us already work from home – and some of us are also used to setting up temporary workstations while travelling. It’s not always easy (or ideal), but a few small adjustments can make a big difference. Here are some of our team’s top tips for working effectively from the homefront.

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Topics: Community Fun Guidance Project Management

Telling the Story of an Online Education Innovator

By Lily Berman, March 18, 2020
A young student logs into her computer to review VHS Learning's website

Let’s take a trip back to 1996. Bill Clinton was elected to his second term as president, and the Nintendo 64 was released in North America. People called the internet the World Wide Web and logged into AOL to check their email while tying up their phone line. There was not much else to do online, as Google, Twitter, and Facebook were not around yet (thanks Slate and Wikipedia for the time capsule info).

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Topics: Articles Community Guidance Higher Education Nonprofits Project Management Strategy

Help Us Fill Bellies (and Hearts) in Baltimore

By The Kalamuna Team, March 13, 2020
Image of conference booth mockup for NTC conference

Continuing our long history of spending our swag budget for good, we planned to partner with the Baltimore Hunger Project (BHP) at The Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) in Baltimore later this month. BHP provides 698 non-perishable bundles of food every Friday to combat the weekend “hunger gap” felt by food-insecure children in Baltimore.

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Topics: Community Conferences

Throw an Epic Remote Office Party with These Four Tips

By Lily Berman, March 5, 2020
A screenshot photo of Lily leading our remote holiday party with members of our team joining via video

As more and more companies liberate themselves from finding talent in a single geographical  location, the traditional office party could become a thing of the past. While I have had my fair share of awkward moments at office parties, they can also be critical components of building and maintaining company culture. 

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Topics: Community Fun Project Management

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