Associations, NFPs and universities are tasked with a unique challenge: member engagement. With competitive resources that allow groups to interact, these organizations need to build a website that engages their users. These sites need to provide the right information to the right people, provide for social interactions, use best practices in information architecture, have membership management capabilities and increase donations.

“Engagement: Making your Site a Forum” explores how a team successfully rebuilt a website for Grinnell College’s Department of Development and Alumni Relations (DAR). Learn the techniques used by Promet to replace their outdated Loggia system with a new site, the Forum. The Forum needed to effectively “rebrand” DAR and accommodate for improved & accessible alumni interaction, gift-giving, and event organization & registration.

This presentation shows solutions into making your site into a living Forum. Attendees will learn about Drupal solutions that:
1) Streamline gift-giving
2) Increase donations
3) Provide a hub for social interaction with user profiles and search functionality
4) Offer event management
5) Increase membership

This project is a great example of Agile Development methodology in Drupal. If you are looking to launch a website efficiently, you can learn about Agile Development, Sprint 0 Planning and the Minimal Viable Product approach. You can learn how Drupal and its modules can provide complex functionalities that are easily managed by your team and your audience.