This blog is for volunteers, webmasters and administrators of associations, clubs, charities, communities and other groups. We discuss issues and trends in modern web technologies that help your organization achieve more with less. This blog is sponsored by Wild Apricot membership software: a set of tools for membership administration, event registration, website management, online fundraising - with friendly and knowledgeable tech support. See for yourself how affordable and easy it is to use: - Take a tour!

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• 13 September 2007

  Vote for Us - Best Web 2.0 App  

  Hey all! Wild Apricot has been nominated in the best Web 2.0 application category of the Pop Vox Awards. Please take some time to vote for us ! Thanks for your continued support! nptech nonprofit web2.0 Read More... Posted Thursday, September 13, 2007 5:57 PM by Creative Apricot | 0 Comments Filed under: General News, Associations, Non-profit technology, General non-profit interest, Wild Apricot, nptech, Web 2.0

• 12 September 2007

  Wild Apricot is now certified in Microsoft tests 

  We did it! We have a long history of cooperation with Microsoft - we are a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner - specializing in Software Solutions and Business Process Integration. The Microsoft Gold Certified Partner is the highest level of partner certification and the idea behind Microsoft's Partner Program is to provide a way for customers to objectively evaluate expertise and capabilities of technology vendors. Microsoft Gold Certified Partners need to meet a higher set of criteria for each category, Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 12, 2007 2:30 PM by Creative Apricot | 1 Comments Filed under: General News, Associations, Non-profit technology, General non-profit interest, Wild Apricot, nptech, Web 2.0

• 02 July 2007

  Wild Apricot turns 1 year old!  

  Today marks a special day for the Wild Apricot team - it's a one year birthday for our product and our blog! It all started in July 2006 when we first introduced Wild Apricot to the world. We already knew from first-hand experience, that people running small associations, clubs and non-profits are overworked and underpaid (IF paid at all!). Forced to manage too many routine administrative tasks better suited for robots, not humans. We knew that they need better tools to juggle their multitude of Read More... Posted Monday, July 02, 2007 9:00 AM by Creative Apricot | 2 Comments Filed under: General News, Non-profit technology, General non-profit interest, Wild Apricot, nptech, Web 2.0

• 17 August 2006

  Wild Apricot in ITBusiness.ca article - now we are officially Web 2.0 :-) 

  I am not too big a fan of Web 2.0 moniker - it has been overused and abused too much. It means too many different things. Still, the basic meaning of "Web 2.0" label is simply "new generation web applications" and thus I was glad to see Wild Apricot mentioned in ITBusiness.ca article on Canadian Web 2.0 companies . So when people really press me, this is how I explain why exactly Wild Apricot is considered as Web 2.0 application: It's totally web-based (a.k.a. software as a service). Nothing to install, Read More... Posted Thursday, August 17, 2006 3:49 PM by Chief_Apricot | 1 Comments Filed under: General News, Non-profit technology, Usability, Wild Apricot, nptech, Web 2.0