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• 07 August 2008

  Techsoup Site Security Breach: Visitors Urged to Take Precautions 

  Techsoup.org , one of the best non-profit resources online, has suffered an SQL Injection attack. The site was taken down promptly when suspicious activity was identified, but Techsoup account holders and anyone who has visited the site in the past few days are urged to take security precautions immediately. These types of attacks are known to exploit website vulnerabilities with the intent of distributing viruses and malware. We do not yet know all the details of this attack at this time. We do Read More... Posted Thursday, August 07, 2008 6:02 PM by Rebecca | 3 Comments Filed under: General News, Non-profit technology, General non-profit interest, nptech, Web 2.0, Best practices, websites, security

• 24 April 2008

  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 take a look at Dilbert.com . The companion website to Dilbert , Scott Adams' widely syndicated cartoon chronicle of office politics, has just relaunched in Web 2.0 style. And this is not simply a cosmetic change or a new website design -- the site Read More... Posted Thursday, April 24, 2008 6:57 PM by Rebecca | 1 Comments Filed under: General News, nptech, Web 2.0, Best practices, online community, Widgets, case studies, websites, Accessibility

• 06 November 2007

  Share the Story of Your Nonprofit or Church through Blogs 

  I want to recommend to you a book I just finished reading. The Blogging Church by Brian Bailey and Terry Storch . There was also an interesting interview with Read/Write Web's Sean Ammirati that's worth listening to. After reading the book, I picked up some good tips that I could apply to our blog and some other parts that kinda knew I should do but have let slip through the cracks. One of the good things about it is that it doesn't assume that you have any knowledge about blogs. It gives very basic Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 06, 2007 9:00 AM by Creative Apricot | 0 Comments Filed under: General News, Associations, Non-profit technology, General non-profit interest, nptech, Web 2.0, Best practices, Blogging

• 25 September 2007

  Two Good Articles at Idealware 

  Laura Quinn from Idealware has two good articles that are worth reading. Behind Closed Web Sites: A Look at Three Nonprofit Intranets - focuses on three nonprofit administrative intranets providing case studies of ONE/ Northwest's wiki intranet, PETA's form-centric intranet , and the sophisticated intranet created by the American Lung Association. A Few Good Event Registration Tools - takes a look at the myriad of options available for those who want to collect online payments and information from Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 25, 2007 11:00 AM by Creative Apricot | 0 Comments Filed under: General News, Associations, Non-profit technology, General non-profit interest, nptech, Web 2.0, Best practices

• 20 September 2007

  Web design and usability guidelines for non-profits: An interview with Jason King 

  Jason King is a freelance web designer and ICT Trainer who works exclusively with non-profit organizations. He is also the author of the Nonprofit Web Design Blog , providing tips on planning, commissioning, designing and editing charity websites. In the following interview, we talked about nonprofit web design and usability best practices. Jason also shared some useful insights on ways nonprofits can design their websites so that they are easy to use, communicate effectively and are accessible to Read More... Posted Thursday, September 20, 2007 12:52 PM by Creative Apricot | 7 Comments Filed under: General News, Associations, Non-profit technology, General non-profit interest, Usability, nptech, Web 2.0, Best practices

• 15 March 2007

  What is tagging and practical ways non-profits can use it 

  What exactly are tags? Simply put, tags are keywords. In the same way you can stick labels on physical objects, you can use tags to label digital 'things' such as blog posts, photos, and web links. Once you assign one or more tags to a certain object, you can easily find it later by looking up everything tagged with a particular keyword. You can also assign multiple tags to the same object, and different people can assign different tags to the same resource. For a more detailed definition of tags, Read More... Posted Thursday, March 15, 2007 6:35 AM by Creative Apricot | 2 Comments Filed under: General News, Associations, Non-profit technology, nptech, Web 2.0, Best practices