Associations and Web 2.0 – Interview with Kathryn Lagden

How does Web 2.0 impact your association and how can you make practical use of Web 2.0 tools work to grow your membership? We talked with Kathryn Lagden, General Manager at AIMS, to answer these questions and she shared her ideas and lessons learned. Read More...

Getting the Most Out of Conferences

Attending conferences is a great way for non profit professionals to learn, expand their network and stay-up-to-date on issues facing their sector. This first article provides tips and tricks to help you make the most out of attending conferences. Read more...

The second will cover tips to help you make the most out of presenting at conferences and will be featured in May's newsletter. Can't wait to read the second article? Then subscribe to our blog feed and read it today!

N4P Dose of Humor

Non-profit Leadership

The job of a non-profit leader involves juggling a multitude of tasks and new skills are always needed

Wild Apricot InfoZone

It will be a year soon since we have launched Wild Apricot. We keep innovating and responding to your requests - your ongoing feedback and questions are highly appreciated.

(Highlights of a recent release 2.16 (you can see full release history at http://help.wildapricot.com/display/DOC/Release+history )

CSS Customization

One significant enhancement - frequently requested by tech-savvy users - is CSS Customization (Cascading Style SheetsCustomization). It provides you with fine-grain control over the visual design of your Wild Apricot website. You can now change fonts, colors, text sizes, links - and many other attributes of your website template (menu, headers, footers and main page area). See also our hands-on tutorial on using CSS customization to change your website theme colors

Member Application and Event Registration E-mails Customization

We've added the ability for administrators to customize automatic confirmation emails triggered by specific events - new member applications and event registrations. You can edit email text as well as insert fields from the appropriate online form.

Member Directory Advanced Search - for public and/or members

We added the advanced search capability to the member directory page. Now members and public can search the member database by any of the database fields (allowed by the administrator) - e.g. city, industry, gender or anything else.

Wild Apricot Partner Program

We have built a great tool - very user-friendly and affordable. Our own focus is to keep innovating and enhancing the tool based on feedback from customers. Now we are looking to partner with individuals and organizations who work with non-profits so that together we can make a bigger impact in the industry and help each other. Learn more about different types of Partnership opportunities with Wild Apricot

Importing your member database

Many of you have been saying "yes, Wild Apricot is easy to use and figure out, but I still can use some documentation and help!" We are hearing you and we are hard at work on Wild Apricot documentation website. You will see a number of help topics covered in May and then most of the system will be covered by end of June. We hope you will find this useful, keep your feedback coming.

Check out one of the first help topics currently available: Guide on importing your member database into Wild Apricot

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"...Thanks again for making my crazy life just a little more manageable!..." Laurie, Fashion Group International, Toronto

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...an affordable and easy-to-use tool for smaller non-profits:

	Membership management
	Event registrations and online payments
	Integrated website
	Donations

"I have been using Apricot for our on-line event registration system for several weeks now. I really like how easy it was to understand and use as well as the pricing model - it makes Apricot I believe the most affordable and usable system. We host regular (up to 15) events per month and having this system has dramatically changed and improved our ability to deliver events In a timely and professional manner. I must also complement you on your OUTSTANDING support. As Apricot is inexpensive, and as such, I expected poor support, but each and every time that I have a question or needed assistance, you and your team have be incredibly responsive to my requests. THANKS FOR A GREAT SOLUTION!" Greg W., North Sydney, Australia  "I love my website, your program is amazing" Betty H., Oklahoma, US

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