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 ...

We all know that the Internet is a very public space -- but do we always act that way?  The separate compartments of social networking sites, once isolated in their own little boxes, have created an illusion of privacy where none may exist -- and now those boxes are opening wide. Consider this: Rapleaf alone has created over 50 million ...

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 ...

April 27 - May 3, 2008 is National Volunteer Week in both Canada and the United States. The heightened awareness of volunteerism that goes along with such a campaign offers a golden opportunity to celebrate your existing volunteers — and to recruit new volunteers to your organization. Here are a few ideas of how your nonprofit might use the ...

As many of you know, November is National Homeless Youth Awareness Month. On November 13, Standup for Kids in LA held a candle light vigil for the 10,000 children who are homeless in the LA area - 79% of them unsheltered, 13 die each day due to physical assault, illness, or suicide. But this was no ordinary candle light vigil. It was the ...

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 ...

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 ...

        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 ...

Fundraising technology strategist Robert Weiner has put together an excellent article about 10 common mistakes  that can prevent you from selecting the right database and managing it effectively. Even though this article has been written a while back, I thought it would be a good idea to post it again as a reminder and ...

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