This week is the ASAE Technology Conference & Expo 2010 in Washington D.C. and Cloud Four is going to the conference for the first time.

Despite the snowpocalypse plaguing the city, John arrived safe in D.C. earlier today after a long flight from our home base in Portland, Oregon.

He’ll be in town all week. If you’re at the conference, we please say hello. If you’d like to set up a specific time to meet with John, please contact us or connect with John via Twitter.

More often than not, we’re building that site using Drupal. We believe Drupal is a perfect fit for organizations and associations.

Before we started started Cloud Four, Aileen, Lyza, John and I had all worked for several years at Kavi which is focused on providing software for organizations.

John was one of the co-founders of Kavi. Lyza was one of the first employees. And Aileen and I had been at Kavi for over seven years.

Needless to say, we have a lot of experience working with these organizations.

After we left Kavi, we searched for a new web platform that would fit the needs of these organizations. Our experience had taught us that while there are some common characteristics of organization web sites, that each organization has unique goals and functionality that they need implemented on their site.

With that experience in mind, we tried many different solutions before settling on Drupal. Drupal provides:

• Top-notch content management features
• Support for simple or complex user management
• Foundation that provides for future expansion
• An active development community
• Ability to build custom solutions on top of Drupal if needed
• Integration ease including the NTEN favorite membership management suite, CiviCRM¹

In addition to these core features, we found that Drupal supports other things that organizations often talk about such as:

• Revisioning
• Authoring Roles
• Content Syndication
• News Aggregator
• Tagging
• Localization
• Blogging
• Forums

All of this goodness wrapped in an open source platform that is widely used by both companies and non-profits.

We’ve been talking to our customers and partners for quite some time about why Drupal makes sense for organizations, but have been waiting for the perfect showcase site to make the point to a larger audience.

As you can see from the recently launched JEDEC.org site, Drupal makes it possible to build beautiful and powerful web sites that accomplish the objectives of standards-setting organizations and associations.

If you’d like to learn more about how Drupal can help your organization, association or your company (Yes, it works well for corporate sites as well!), please contact us.

We’d be happy to talk to you more about how Drupal can help your organization.

1. As an aside, if you run an organization and haven’t looked into CiviCRM, we highly recommend that you do. It is a full-featured, open source membership tool that integrates fully with Drupal. Not only that, but our friends at raSANTIAGO + Associates provide a great service called CiviServer and are experts in helping organizations utilize CiviCRM effectively.