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Archives : January 2010

29 January 2010

How to Bring Facebook Fans to Your Nonprofit Blog - Part 2

"How can our nonprofit move the active conversation from our Facebook fan Page to our organization’s own blog‌?" The nonprofit that asked this question might be a small one, but their challenge certainly isn’t! Here's one way to tackle it. (read more)
Posted Friday, 29 January 2010 at 1:44 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 9 comments
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29 January 2010

Idealware Publishes 2010 Field Guide to Software for Nonprofits

What types of software can make your organization more effective and efficient? It can be tough even to know what's out there, let alone to decide what you need. Good news: Idealware.org has just released a software guide that's specifically for nonprofits. (read more)
Posted Friday, 29 January 2010 at 3:14 AM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 1 comments
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28 January 2010

Wild Apricot News: iStockphoto coupon code: 20% off for Wild Apricot users and fans

iStockphoto is perhaps the best royalty-free stock image source on the Internet. Need professional quality images, videos or even sounds to spruce up your website, but don't have the time or budget to create them yourself? iStockphoto is the place... (read more)
Posted Thursday, 28 January 2010 at 2:13 PM by Lenna Titizian [Dancing Apricot] | 0 comments
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27 January 2010

Wild Apricot News: Learn about Wild Apricot membership managment software - check out a FREE webinar!

If you're interested in trying Wild Apricot for the first time, or you're an existing customer who wants to learn more about the software, there may be no better way than to check out our free introductory webinar , appropriately titled "What is Wild... (read more)
Posted Wednesday, 27 January 2010 at 2:13 PM by Lenna Titizian [Dancing Apricot] | 0 comments
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27 January 2010

Best of Association Jam: Association Links for January 2010

What will you do in 2010 that you've never done before to help your associations thrive? That's the kind of provocative question we like to start out a new year pondering! And appropriately enough, Association Jam's overall top-voted story for the... (read more)
Posted Wednesday, 27 January 2010 at 8:59 AM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 2 comments
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26 January 2010

No RSS Feed for Your Website? No Problem

Google Reader has announced a new feature that lets users create an RSS feed to track changes to any web page, even if the site doesn’t publish a feed. It’s great new feature for your website visitors who use Google Reader, but what about people who use a different feedreader or like to get updates by email? You can help those people get automatic notifications of your website changes, too. (read more)
Posted Tuesday, 26 January 2010 at 6:47 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 12 comments
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- websites,
- RSS,
- Feedburner,
- Google,
- Web 2.0
22 January 2010

Free Guide for Online Fundraisers

Network for Good has just released The Online Fundraiser's Checklist , a free eGuide by Katya Andresen and Rebecca Higman. The guide is presented as a set of six checklists that neatly cover the "essential basics" of online fundraising: Website home... (read more)
Posted Friday, 22 January 2010 at 5:41 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 3 comments
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21 January 2010

Wild Apricot News: Got a Facebook Page? We want to be YOUR fan!

Facebook Fan Pages are a terrific way for associations, non-profits, clubs and other organizations to connect with their members and supporters. And the Wild Apricot Facebook Page has been a terrific way for us to connect to our customers and friends.... (read more)
Posted Thursday, 21 January 2010 at 2:12 PM by Lenna Titizian [Dancing Apricot] | 0 comments
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21 January 2010

How to Bring Facebook Fans to Your Nonprofit Blog: Part 1

A challenging social media question came in from a very small health-related nonprofit support group, recently: How can we move the active conversation on our Facebook fan Page over to our organization’s blog? (read more)
Posted Thursday, 21 January 2010 at 11:59 AM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 8 comments
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20 January 2010

Lovely Charts

If you’re looking for a way to jazz up your organization’s reports, newsletters, web pages and other publications, what about a chart? Not just the usual boxes and arrows with plain-Jane text labels, but something more of an eye-catching illustration: a lovely chart! (read more)
Posted Wednesday, 20 January 2010 at 4:03 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 4 comments
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- collaboration,
- images,
- websites,
- PDF,
- application,
- newsletters
18 January 2010

Nonprofit Newsletter: Free Tools to Create and Merge PDFs

One small nonprofit I work with has chosen to publish its monthly membership newsletter as a magazine-style document in Portable Document Format (PDF), rather than as an email blast. The idea is to take advantage of a PDF’s ability to retain a consistent... (read more)
Posted Monday, 18 January 2010 at 2:31 AM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 10 comments
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15 January 2010

Wild Apricot News: Wild Apricot social media for associations feature on SmartMeetings.com

Smart Meetings magazine examines the meetings industry and features the latest industry trends, corporate event planning, emerging technology, and personality profiles. This month for their online case study, Smart Meetings is featuring an interview... (read more)
Posted Friday, 15 January 2010 at 2:10 PM by Lenna Titizian [Dancing Apricot] | 0 comments
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13 January 2010

Posterous.com: Email Blogging for NonProfits

Someone was asking about "microblogs" the other day, whether Posterous.com is a platform that small nonprofits should be looking at, and how it might be used by organizations that already maintain a blog on their website. Here are my thoughts on it.... (read more)
Posted Wednesday, 13 January 2010 at 9:08 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 8 comments
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13 January 2010

Wild Apricot News: Tell your friends about Wild Apricot on Facebook or Twitter with one click - and earn money!

If you are a Wild Apricot customer (or even if you aren't) you can help small associations and non-profits who might benefit from our membership management and website software , and make money in the process. With Wild Apricot, it's easy to get a... (read more)
Posted Wednesday, 13 January 2010 at 2:08 PM by Lenna Titizian [Dancing Apricot] | 0 comments
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11 January 2010

Association Chat (#assnchat) Blog Launched

Launched today, Association Chat’s new blog helps association folks to connect with colleagues in the weekly #assnchat Twitter chat, and extends the conversation's reach from Twitter to the wider Web. Could your own organization and its chapters (or a network of nonprofits that share a common cause) do something similar, to help amplify your own online message? (read more)
Posted Monday, 11 January 2010 at 5:29 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 2 comments
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