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29 February 2008

NetSquared Mashup Challenge Helps Nonprofits to Create New Tools for Change

Do you have an idea for a mashup? Can you imagine a way to combine data from more than one source to make a web tool that can help nonprofits change the world? The NetSquared Mashup Challenge may be for you. You don't need to have the tech skills — just a great idea. (read more)
Posted Friday, 29 February 2008 at 2:41 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 3 comments
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28 February 2008

How to Give Your Website a Favicon

More than just a colorful decoration for your website, a favicon (short for favorites icon ) can help to create a unique identity for your website. Those little 16 x 16 images are a powerful and visual way to help "brand" your organization, and to... (read more)
Posted Thursday, 28 February 2008 at 3:28 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 10 comments
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26 February 2008

Wild Apricot Updates and Roadmap

Another month - more exciting updates about Wild Apricot integrated website and membership management software. We appreciate ongoing comments and suggestions - and Wild Apricot keeps evolving to address your feedback. Our early February release included:... (read more)
Posted Tuesday, 26 February 2008 at 10:00 AM by Lenna Titizian [Dancing Apricot] | 2 comments
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25 February 2008

Clean-Up Strategies for a High Quality Mailing List

Cleaning up a mailing list is never quite as easy as it should be. To purge an inactive address from your database can feel like you're letting go of something that could "come in handy" someday — even if it's not useful now, and hasn't been productive... (read more)
Posted Monday, 25 February 2008 at 2:49 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 3 comments
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21 February 2008

Big Dreams for the NonProfit Sector

Rosetta Thurman , this week’s host for the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants , asks, “What one thing should we do to improve the state of the nonprofit sector?” In trying to tackle a question this size, frankly, I feel a bit like a pop princess telling... (read more)
Posted Thursday, 21 February 2008 at 8:45 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 5 comments
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19 February 2008

Social Annotation: the Next Generation of Social Bookmarking

We've talked before about the many benefits of social bookmarking (Digg, Del.icio.us, StumbleUpon, and so on) for sharing the web pages you've discovered and for helping others to share your own site or blog. But when it comes to online research and... (read more)
Posted Tuesday, 19 February 2008 at 11:53 AM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 5 comments
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15 February 2008

10 Reasons Why Every Nonprofit Must Have a Blog

Think your nonprofit organization has no need for a blog? You may want to think again. According to Technorati, more than 10,500 blogs were tagged 'charity', 4,000 blogs 'nonprofit' and 2,300 blogs 'philanthropy' in January of 2007 and these numbers are predicted to rapidly increase in the future. Here are ten reasons your nonprofit should participate in this movement and harness the power of the blog today. (read more)
Posted Friday, 15 February 2008 at 4:20 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 14 comments
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13 February 2008

Give Them Something to Talk About

Your nonprofit organization may buy advertising space to take a message to the general public, send out newsletters and email blasts to reach your membership, and run a website and blog to do both. But all of that, in the end, is simply “talking about yourself” – a strategy with very limited powers of persuasion. How can you encourage other people to talk about your cause? (read more)
Posted Wednesday, 13 February 2008 at 4:00 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 3 comments
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11 February 2008

Does Your NonProfit Website Need a Privacy Policy?

If your organization collects information from the users of your website — and the odds are that it does, if little more than the IP addresses scooped up by your site statistics package — have you posted a site privacy policy? Should you do so? In... (read more)
Posted Monday, 11 February 2008 at 11:59 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 4 comments
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08 February 2008

Data Collection Made Easier with Google Forms and Spreadsheets

The more you know about your members, the better your organization can serve them. As we've mentioned, a variety of free tools for online polls are available to answer the simple questions -- but sometimes you need more detailed information from your... (read more)
Posted Friday, 08 February 2008 at 5:28 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 8 comments
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06 February 2008

How to Use Mail Merge to Create Custom Membership Cards

Spend just a half-hour in a nonprofit office, and you're likely to be all too familiar with MS Word's mail merge feature -- or at least, with the sheets of peel-and-stick mailing labels that can quickly be generated with it! And where would a nonprofit... (read more)
Posted Wednesday, 06 February 2008 at 9:36 AM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 7 comments
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04 February 2008

Nonprofit Internet Strategies Seminar comes to Toronto

The Toronto ePhilanthropy Chapter presents the 2008 Nonprofit Internet Strategies Seminar on Tuesday, 12 February 2008, in Toronto, Ontario. Whether yours is a small or large nonprofit, this in-depth seminar is designed to cover the questions you have,... (read more)
Posted Monday, 04 February 2008 at 5:08 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 0 comments
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01 February 2008

Seesmic: where YouTube meets Twitter

A new video-based social media startup has appeared on the Web 2.0 horizon, and some heavy-hitters in the web tech world are wagering their investments that Seesmic could be the Next Big Thing. Seesmic is best described as a sort of "video Twitter"... (read more)
Posted Friday, 01 February 2008 at 6:36 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 7 comments
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01 February 2008

7 Tips to Make Your Charity Badge a Success

This post has been contributed by Lance Trebesch and Colt Lapham from TicketPrinting.com Charity badge campaigns have the potential to be incredible fundraising mechanisms if successful but are also susceptible to failure if they are not properly implemented.... (read more)
Posted Friday, 01 February 2008 at 9:00 AM by Lenna Titizian [Dancing Apricot] | 4 comments
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31 January 2008

AddThis for Simple Social Bookmarking

One of the best things you can do for your readers (and for your blog) is to make it as easy as possible for people to share your content with interested others. You may have noticed the Bookmark button on each post pages of the Wild Apricot Blog?... (read more)
Posted Thursday, 31 January 2008 at 10:45 AM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 12 comments
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