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  How to Check Your Website on Different Browsers Cross-browser compatibility has long been a frustration for website designers. What looks fine in one browser may be more or less “broken” in another, with sidebars shifted and elements overlapping... But does it really matter, how your website looks... 07-02-2008, 1:11 PM by Rebecca to Wild Apricot Blog Filed under: Best practices, General non-profit interest, Google Analytics, Non-profit technology, nptech, open source, Usability, Web 2.0, websites

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  What's Your Rapleaf Reputation - and why should you care? We all know that the Internet is a very public space -- but do we always act that way? The separate compartments of social networking sites, once isolated in their own little boxes, have created an illusion of privacy where none may exist -- and now those... 06-30-2008, 12:43 PM by Rebecca to Wild Apricot Blog Filed under: General News, General non-profit interest, Non-profit technology, nptech, online community, Social networking, Web 2.0, websites

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  Wild Apricot Updates - June 2008 On June 26th, we released our regular update — Wild Apricot version 2.34. The biggest enhancement is what we refer to as the Integrated credit card payment option — yes, we have been working on that one for a while! PayPal is still the payment processor,... 06-26-2008, 7:18 PM by Chief_Apricot to Wild Apricot Blog Filed under: Non-profit technology, nptech, Wild Apricot

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  Facebook Applications for Your Non-Profit Page So you've signed up your nonprofit group for a Facebook Page -- now what? It can be challenging to know what to put on your Page to make the best use of the space, especially if you're setting out to build a new page from scratch. And if you're new to... 06-23-2008, 9:35 AM by Rebecca to Wild Apricot Blog Filed under: Facebook, General non-profit interest, Non-profit technology, nptech, online community, Web 2.0

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  Easy RSS Updates with PingShot Most of the search engines and web-based feed reading services will check for updates to your blog from time to time, but what if you have breaking news that you want to get out fast? You can notify ("ping") each feed reading service separately whenever... 06-19-2008, 10:03 AM by Rebecca to Wild Apricot Blog Filed under: Blogging, Feedburner, Non-profit technology, nptech, publicity, RSS

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  How to Set Up a Non-Profit Facebook Page New features and other enhancements have been added to Facebook since Wild Apricot's Beginner's Guide to Facebook for Non-Profits , and nonprofits are learning more about making the best use of the popular social networking site. We've talked about setting... 06-16-2008, 11:18 AM by Rebecca to Wild Apricot Blog Filed under: Facebook, General non-profit interest, Non-profit Communications, Non-profit technology, nptech, online community

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  Crowdsourcing: How Business and Nonprofits Tap into the Wisdom of Crowds “Welcome to the age of the crowd,” wrote Jeff Howe in The Rise of Crowdsourcing (2006). In coining the term "crowdsourcing," Howe pointed to the rise of the open-source software movement; to the success of user-created Wikipedia; and to profitable businesses... 06-11-2008, 6:01 PM by Rebecca to Wild Apricot Blog Filed under: case studies, collaboration, crowdsourcing, General non-profit interest, Non-profit technology, nptech, online community, open source, Web 2.0

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  Social Media in Plain English: Video It turns out that ice cream and social media have a lot in common -- at least, according to the latest video by Lee Lefever of Common Craft, Social Media in Plain English. Using a deceptively simple paper and whiteboard technique, Common Craft specializes... 06-09-2008, 4:30 PM by Rebecca to Wild Apricot Blog Filed under: General non-profit interest, Humor, instructional video, nptech, Social networking, Video

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  5 Keys to Effective Knowledge Transfer for Nonprofits Effective communication – and more precisely, the effective transfer or exchange of knowledge – is vital to any nonprofit organization. It lies at the root of everything a nonprofit does – from pitching your cause to donors and funding agencies, to delivering... 06-06-2008, 4:13 PM by Rebecca to Wild Apricot Blog Filed under: Best practices, General non-profit interest, Non-profit Communications, nptech, publicity, training

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  Free Job Postings for Nonprofits If your nonprofit has a job opening you'd like to publicize, Idealist has a deal for you. Through the month of June, any nonprofit organization is invited to post its job listings on the Idealist.org website at no charge.... 06-04-2008, 9:59 AM by Rebecca to Wild Apricot Blog Filed under: General non-profit interest, nptech, Staffing

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  Top 5 Web Tools to Create Your Own Online Quiz In response to our Top 10 round-up of tools for online polls and surveys, some readers asked about the best web-based tools to create custom quizzes and tests. Here, we've rounded up 5 web-based quiz tools to help get you started. Some of these quiz-makers... 06-03-2008, 3:09 PM by Rebecca to Wild Apricot Blog Filed under: General non-profit interest, Non-profit technology, nptech, surveys, training, Web 2.0

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  Free All-Access Animoto for Educators Imagine a Web 2.0 tool that combines your images and music to create a flashy video presentation. It's quick and easy to use, and the results can make the standard digital slideshow look like something from the last decade. That's Animoto.... 05-31-2008, 12:37 PM by Rebecca to Wild Apricot Blog Filed under: General non-profit interest, images, Non-profit technology, nptech, Video, Web 2.0

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  Wild Apricot Updates and Plans. May 2008 Recent updates On May 22nd, we released our longest update ever — Wild Apricot version 2.33. It included two really big chunks of work: Redesign of payment workflows for events, donations and membership payments. In our next release, around the end of... 05-28-2008, 12:21 PM by AndreyT to Wild Apricot Blog Filed under: Non-profit technology, nptech, Wild Apricot

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  Easy Embedded Tables for Your Website or Blog: Part 2 In the first part of this article, we talked about various ways to show data in tables on your website or blog -- their strengths and their limitations. Here, we'll take a closer look at how to use Zoho Sheet, Google Spreadsheets, or DabbleDB to create... 05-26-2008, 4:04 PM by Rebecca to Wild Apricot Blog Filed under: Blogging, collaboration, DabbleDB, database, Google, Non-profit technology, nptech, spreadsheets, tables, Web 2.0, websites, Zoho

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  Read the Words: Free Text-to-Speech Tool Sometimes it just isn’t possible for your website's visitors to read what you have to say. Perhaps a visitor has limited vision, or other physical challenges that make onscreen reading difficult. Perhaps reading itself may be a challenge for him. But... 05-23-2008, 10:16 AM by Rebecca to Wild Apricot Blog Filed under: Accessibility, Blogging, Non-profit technology, nptech, podcasting, text to speech, Usability, Web 2.0, websites

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  Help a Reporter — Get Free Media Exposure When your spokesperson is interviewed on the TV evening news, that's air time worth far more than most nonprofits could hope to afford as an advertising purchase. And when your organization is quoted in the press, that lends an air of credibility that... 05-20-2008, 10:08 AM by Rebecca to Wild Apricot Blog Filed under: Marketing, media, Non-profit Communications, Non-profit technology, nptech, publicity, Volunteers

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  Easy Embedded Tables for Your Website or Blog: Part One Some kinds of information are best presented in table form: school alumni lists, genealogy data, annotated lists of resources, survey results and statistical data, and so on. When you have several data fields for each item, a simple list won't cut it.... 05-15-2008, 3:30 PM by Rebecca to Wild Apricot Blog Filed under: DabbleDB, Google, Non-profit technology, nptech, spreadsheets, tables, Web 2.0, websites, Zoho

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  5pm offers Easy Online Project Management - with 50% discount for nonprofits Project management software is a tough and competitive field. With so many excellent choices out there, it's hard to know what tools will work best for your organization's needs. Do you want web-based or desktop application? Which features will you really... 05-12-2008, 1:30 AM by Rebecca to Wild Apricot Blog Filed under: collaboration, event managment, General non-profit interest, Non-profit Communications, Non-profit technology, nptech, project management

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  How Well Does Your Website Work for its Users? How easy do you think it should be to make a charitable donation? Getting a charity to accept your money might not be quite as easy as you'd think — if the charity's website is designed to meet its own needs, that is, rather than the needs of the people... 05-08-2008, 2:52 PM by Rebecca to Wild Apricot Blog Filed under: Accessibility, Best practices, case studies, Fundraising, General non-profit interest, Non-profit technology, nptech, Usability, websites

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  Web 2.0 Nonprofit Success Stories - Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants The "Web 2.0 Nonprofit Success Stories" submitted to the NPC Carnival this week led to a selection of nonprofit organizations that are widely varied in terms of size, budget, and reach. Each group is using the Internet and Web 2.0 tools in a different... 05-05-2008, 11:40 AM by Rebecca to Wild Apricot Blog Filed under: Blogging, case studies, Non-profit technology, NPC Carnival, nptech, Social networking, Web 2.0

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  Wild Apricot Updates and Plans. April 2008 There haven't been many April showers, but a lot of flowers have already bloomed! On April 10th, we released an update that included the following key changes: Ability to specify different fields for different membership levels. This was a frequently... 04-30-2008, 2:13 PM by AndreyT to Wild Apricot Blog Filed under: InfoZone, New releases, Non-profit technology, nptech, Wild Apricot

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  Bring Your Nonprofit Success Stories to the Blog Carnival Wild Apricot is pleased to be hosting the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants on Monday, 5 May 2008, and the theme will be "Web 2.0 Nonprofit Success Stories" Tell us how you're using the Internet -- and specifically Web 2.0 tools and technologies -- to... 04-30-2008, 10:07 AM by Rebecca to Wild Apricot Blog Filed under: Blogging, Non-profit technology, NPC Carnival, nptech, Social networking, Web 2.0

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  Free PDF Tools for Mac When we caught up with educator Dave Riddell on Twitter the other day, he was looking for a new low-cost tool to create and edit PDF files — the web's default format for sharing printable documents. Here, for the benefit of other Macintosh users, he shares... 04-29-2008, 8:01 AM by Rebecca to Wild Apricot Blog Filed under: Non-profit technology, nptech, open source, PDF

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  Affordable Online File Storage for Multiple Computers All it takes is a sudden hard-drive crash to sell a computer user on the value of backing up all important documents. And if you travel, or move between different computers in the course of your work, secure online data storage means you'll never find... 04-28-2008, 12:47 PM by Rebecca to Wild Apricot Blog Filed under: collaboration, data backup, Non-profit technology, nptech, online storage

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  Dilbert.com Goes Web 2.0 How would you define Web 2.0 ? Wikipedia does a pretty good job of explaining it, but why use words alone to explain such a complex idea, when you can show-and-tell? Try this: Flip open just about any North American newspaper to the comics page... then... 04-24-2008, 2:57 PM by Rebecca to Wild Apricot Blog Filed under: Accessibility, Best practices, case studies, General News, nptech, online community, Web 2.0, websites, Widgets