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JJO Media Power Shift 2011
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The Energy Action Coalition (EAC) includes over 50 organizations dedicated to growing youth involvement in the climate and clean energy movement. In April 2011, over 10,000 college students and activists attended EAC's biannual Power Shift conference in Washington, DC and keynote sessions were streamed to thousands more.
Challenges & Needs
Energy Action reached out to Advomatic in late Fall 2010 hoping for an early 2011 launch of the new powershift2011.org site. With limited staff resources, the Power Shift website needed to handle many administrative processes with ease. In the past, Power Shift's website had been a powerful tool for gathering conference registrations, but did not offer features to the growing community of attendees. Success at Power Shift also required high level logistical coordination and planning that the website needed to support, including volunteer recruitment and capacity planning for session space.
Many Power Shift Attendees were college students whose registration fees were covered by college clubs or administrations. Advomatic designed and built a custom registration process to allow a college club or group to sign up in advance and generate invoices to be delivered to college staff for payment.
Results
Advomatic worked with the Energy Action team to plan phases of development that included launching registration features first, then recruitment tools, volunteer management and subsequently scheduling. The back-end of powershift2011.org was based on the Drupal Conference Organizing Distribution (COD), a Drupal installation designed for conferences that offered several of the required features. Advomatic customized COD to meet Power Shift's unusual registration and scheduling requirements. Using the COD as a base saved development time and allowed this project to meet its aggressive timeline.
In the final phase of the project, Advomatic designed and built a custom mobile theme so that attendees could get conference updates, session times and locations from a variety of mobile devices including iPhone/iOS, Blackberry and Android platforms.
Shortly after the Power Shift 2011 conference, Energy Action Coalition re-branded the existing conference website as We Are Power Shift for conference attendees to engage in the movement and continue their activism.
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