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Wild Apricot Newsletter - June 2007 |  |
A beginner's guide to Facebook for non-profitsFacebook has created quite a buzz as a social networking site that connects people. In this beginner's guide, you will learn what Facebook is really all about, how to get started using it, and several key concepts to effectively promote your organization, events, blog and more. Case Study: The Gulf Coast JRT Network
"Creating the website has just put a new enthusiasm in people, it has encouraged more people to pay attention to Russell Rescue, new folks with a Jack to attend a playday, it's just been a win-win situation." Lisa Dernick says. The club has had a website but it was never maintained or updated. With the rising cost of gas, the expense of attending a field trial, the driving time it takes to get to the Houston, TX area, they felt the need to start a new website and try to draw in more participation for their club trials. Even with limited computer skills, they found Wild Apricot to be helpful to meet their needs. They learned how to build a website that suits their needs and have encouraged more club interest and participation. Here are the features Gulf Coast JRT Network has found to be of the most use:
The Gulf Coast JRT Network can be found online at www.gcjrtn.onefireplace.com Wild Apricot InfoZoneAs most of your already know, we are on the never-ending quest for the ongoing improvement of Wild Apricot. No software is ever perfect. Industry regulations change, smart people come up with new ideas and new technologies enable us to do things never possible before. Recognizing this, we apply a unique development approach to Wild Apricot software - so-called 'Agile development methodology'. This approach ensures the ongoing, continual improvement of our software to match your needs better, saving you more time and making you much more efficient. We really appreciate your questions and feedback - and keep working to make it even easier to use, more powerful and flexible, responding to your needs. (Read more about how and why we update the product so frequently - every few weeks) As of June 1st, we have published a release 2.19 which included the following key features (and a multitude of other small changes and fixes):
To read more about the updates above see Wild Apricot Release 2.19 Our next release is scheduled for end of June. We will release:
Lots of other enhancements are planned for the summer, including a significant overhaul of the event registration to make it easier for both administrators and people registering for events. Stay tuned! Online collaboration tools for non-profit board membersGoogle Documents and Spreadsheets presents an unique and new sphere for non-proofit board members to collaborate. It is being used to improve communications, participation and documentation. This article provides a review of Google Documents and Spreadsheets including a hands-on mini-case study on how board members can use it to collaborate in real-time. N4P Dose of HumorIt's definitely OKAY to get hooked on volunteering:
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