Friends Of CNM newsletter, 2019 January-April
Ladies and Gentlemen ... Greetings from CNM Digital Services team ... Significant developments on several initiatives ... Please review thoroughly and, as always, if more is needed just let us know and we'll shift fires accordingly ...
For you
CNM IT is waiting for you
If you take a look at the illustration published at <a href="https://wiki.friendsofcnm.org/en/File:Cnm-cloud.png" target="_blank">wiki.friendsofcnm.org/en/File:Cnm-cloud.png</a>, you can find that our technology has more launched parts than under development or projected ones. As of now, the main project is to put our technology to work.
Based on communications followed our previous newsletters, we still need to design the intake process for CNM patrons even in those parts like learning and knowledge management systems where a good deal of content has been developed.
Join us
Join the team
You are welcome to join the team, or, to be more exact, any part of the team:
- The software development part features Romanof and myself, who concentrate on the back-end development, as well as Natly and Paul, who focus on the front-end development. Members of this sub-team are geographically distributed. To work virtually, we utilize our own methodology that we call CNM Agile and which is an adaptation of Agile Scrum to our needs. However, you are invited to start face-to-face effort and/or add another style if you are interested in;
- The administrative part is clearly understaffed. Loredana C. plays a business analyst role. In addition to my development roles, I occasionally perform all the other functions. Alphabetically listed, they are an administrative assistant, business administrator, business buyer, configuration manager, content manager, contracts administrator, event organizer, functional manager, HR generalist, information architect, marketing fellow, partner liaison, procurement manager, product owner, project manager, project sponsor, recruiter, Scrum master, team lead, technical writer, trainer, and usability analyst.
To expedite the project, I would love to share some of my roles and/or functions with you.
You can
How you can help
Imagine what we together can do with CNM Videos. We can post there our orientation, seminar presentations, and event previews, streamline our events, etc. Currently, just a couple of test videos are published, but the technology is ready to be used and our videosharing service is waiting for your help. Would you like to be a part of that change?
IT is
What CNM IT is
The CNM information texhnology, called CNM Cloud, is designed to support services beyond regular CNM meetings in Vienna, VA that usually occur on Tuesday nights. As of now, we can accommodate the following services:
- Learning, including our internal learning management system;
- Marketing, including our private customer relationship management system, any types of public websites, and private email engine;
- Collaboration, including our version control, social network, project management systems. All the systems come in two forms; one is public and another is private. Our public collaborative knowledge system is available at <a href="https://wiki.friendsofcnm.org" target="_blank">wiki.friendsofcnm.org</a>. Not to confuse you again, I don't include links to our private systems in this message.
I will present one or two pieces a week starting today with our video-sharing platform called CNM Videos and finishing with my favorite software, CNM Nets, that can accommodate our private social network, event organizing, and user management.
Videos
CNM Videos
When you visit <a href="https://video.friendsofcnm.org/" target="_blank">video.friendsofcnm.org</a>, you get to the site of our future services called CNM Videos. With regard to technology, it can be called CNM "Youtube." In comparison with Youtube, the difference is that we have the fullest control over what videos are posted. We can also assign categories and sequences to adapt them better to our patrons' needs.
Blessings, peace, thanks! --Gary, Natalia, Romanof, and Paul at CNM Digital Services
