Ah yes, next April 2012 is NTEN again and voting is open to vote for sessions you'd like to see at NTEN.   There are 2 fantastic sessions, so please support the CiviCRM community and vote:

• The Power Of An Integrated Website-CRM Solution: CiviCRM with Drupal, Joomla and WordPress - with Dave Greenberg (CiviCRM Core team), consultants Greg Heller & Stuart Gaston, Lin Hundt (SACNAS), Joshua VanDavier (Wikipedia Foundation).  Need I say more?  Vote here: http://www.nten.org/ntc-session/12132

• Zen and Art of Workflow Development - with Alice Aguilar and Christina Roessler (Progressive Technology Project aka PTP).  Not just another boring workflow topic, but real use and planning to get folks to use the database - and we do mean CiviCRM - strategically so that it's not just another rolodex and they fully can understand the database's unlocked potiential.  Vote here: http://www.nten.org/ntc-session/11949

We had another engaging NYC meetup on March 16th, competing with the first warm sunny day after the crazy noreaster, where around 20 people spent the evening to dig in to CiviCRM.

After our usual intros where folks can express what they'd like to get out of the evening, Fred kicked off a case study of how he used civi for the Man Up Campaign, and demonstrated the use of profiles to collect information from individuals who would like to engage or contribute to the campaign.

Here’s a group posting from Alice with Progressive Technology Project, and Kyle and Sacha with Rayogram:

Once again Rayogram’s staff stepped it up with hosting our NYC meetup, provided wifi access, with Sacha and Kyle taking leads in facilitating advanced user and developer hands-on break outs. I facilitated the newbies’ hands-on and demo break out, where we were able to use training sets fashioned by the Civi core team.

We had another well-attended meetup last thursday, hosted by the folks at Rayogram, with about 20 people participating. Annalee Van Kleeck, Lyric Systems, who has an extensive background in various fundraising systems, presented a case study of her work using Drupal/CiviCRM for Hands On, focusing on online ticket and subscriptions sales, a calendar of cultural events, and a resources library.

The New York Meetup was a great success last night, as 33 people got a glimpse into upcoming releases, several case studies, and great open floor discussions. Dave Greenberg, core contributor, joined in via Skype video to provide insight into upcoming features and answering questions.