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Archives : October 2007

31 October 2007

How to Start and Grow your Nonprofit Blog: An Interview with Michael Sola

Michael Sola is the Director of Information Technology of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF), a nonprofit dedicated to restoring and protecting the Chesapeake Bay and its tributary rivers. For the past 6 months, Michael Sola has been blogging as part... (read more)
Posted Wednesday, 31 October 2007 at 9:00 AM by Lenna Titizian | 2 comments
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30 October 2007

Technology to make fundraising ‘good to go': New report by Network for Good

Network for Good released a new report called The Wired Fundraiser: How technology is making fundraising 'good to go'. The report written by Katya Andresen and Stacie Mann covers what happens when people with a cause take it to cyberspace; why marketers... (read more)
Posted Tuesday, 30 October 2007 at 9:00 AM by Lenna Titizian | 1 comments
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29 October 2007

Wild Apricot News: Membership Management Software from Wild Apricot Now Certified in Microsoft Platform Tests

Online community and membership database software solution passes Microsoft tests for Managed Code, SQL Servers, Hosted Solutions and Windows Server. Toronto, ON October 29, 2007 -- Wild Apricot, a fully integrated, turn-key member database software... (read more)
Posted Monday, 29 October 2007 at 1:27 PM by Lenna Titizian | 0 comments
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25 October 2007

Survival in the nonprofit world

Copyright, Grantland Enterprises; www.grantland.net . Used with permission. May not be reproduced in any format. (read more)
Posted Thursday, 25 October 2007 at 4:27 PM by Lenna Titizian | 0 comments
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- Associations,
- Volunteers
24 October 2007

Top 10 RSS Feed Readers

iGoogle is a start page tool where you can aggregate all the Google resources you use on your online desktop, eg gMail, Google Calendar. I personally love my igoogle. It allows me to customize my RSS feeds by allowing me to develop tabs per subject.... (read more)
Posted Wednesday, 24 October 2007 at 7:13 PM by Lenna Titizian | 0 comments
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- Best practices,
- RSS
24 October 2007

Wild Apricot Version 2.24 released! Now with member pictures and member directory features

Another new versions of Wild Apricot, 2.24 has been released. Here's a quick overview of key new features and changes (you can read more on our Wild Apricot release history page ): Member Pictures You can now add picture fields to member database (even... (read more)
Posted Wednesday, 24 October 2007 at 9:00 AM by Lenna Titizian | 0 comments
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23 October 2007

How to Use the Social Web for Social Change

Britt Bravo of Have Fun * Do Good has an excellent post about using the social web for social change. In the nonprofit sector, online activism has become much more than sending an email to Congress or making a donation. Organizations today are engaging... (read more)
Posted Tuesday, 23 October 2007 at 1:04 PM by Lenna Titizian | 2 comments
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18 October 2007

Online Member Services Best Practices (Part 2 of 2)

In the first part of this series , I shared some tips on how to use the web to provide self-service options to your members. With that first post I wanted to start laying out the most common functions and facilities under the general umbrella of online... (read more)
Posted Thursday, 18 October 2007 at 8:00 AM by Lenna Titizian | 0 comments
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- Associations,
- Best practices
16 October 2007

6 Unique Online Fundraising Techniques for Your Nonprofit (Part 1 of 6)

This post has been contributed by Lance Trebesch and Taylor Robinson from TicketPrinting.com (Updated on 19/10/07 to address comments below) Overview Every nonprofit knows that fundraisers are critical to their existence. Without donations, no resources... (read more)
Posted Tuesday, 16 October 2007 at 6:31 PM by Lenna Titizian | 5 comments
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15 October 2007

Online Community, Collaboration and Social Networking features of most practical use

There is no lack of websites offering online community and social networking tools. Some are rudimentary and cumbersome, some are cool and addictive, some are slow to catch on, other are quick to propagate - and quick to fizzle out. There are many... (read more)
Posted Monday, 15 October 2007 at 9:00 AM by Dmitriy Buterin | 14 comments
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12 October 2007

Case Study: Songsalive! Increases exposure through website design and online community building

This month's case study is with Gilli Moon of Songsalive! Gilli Moon is a singer, songwriter, recording artist, pianist, actor, producer, author, painter, motivator, entrepreneur, visionary and empowering community builder. She is the quintessential... (read more)
Posted Friday, 12 October 2007 at 9:00 AM by Lenna Titizian | 0 comments
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- Wild Apricot Reviews
11 October 2007

8 Ideas To Promote Your Association's Website

Did you know that most visitors leave a website within 10 seconds of landing on the home page? And they may never return to the same site. What's worse is going though all the trouble of creating a professional association web site that nobody comes... (read more)
Posted Thursday, 11 October 2007 at 3:25 PM by Lenna Titizian | 9 comments
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10 October 2007

A 30 Day Guide to Search Engine Optimization (Part 4 of 4)

This post has been contributed by Lance Trebesch and Taylor Robinson from TicketPrinting.com Week 4: Objective: Your objectives in the fourth and final week include emailing potential link partners, negotiating link agreements, and continuing your... (read more)
Posted Wednesday, 10 October 2007 at 9:00 AM by Lenna Titizian | 2 comments
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- Best practices,
- SEO,
- Web 2.0,
- Marketing
05 October 2007

The rewards of working in the nonprofit sector :-)

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Posted Friday, 05 October 2007 at 7:13 PM by Lenna Titizian | 0 comments
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- Non-profit
03 October 2007

What do web polling tools, web design tips and facebook have in common?

These were the posts of most interest to our readers in Sep 2007 according to Google Analytics.... Top 10 cool, easy-to-use web poll and survey tools for your blog and website This post was one of my favorites to write. I took the time to search through... (read more)
Posted Wednesday, 03 October 2007 at 1:19 PM by Lenna Titizian | 1 comments
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