Wild Apricot Blog

View: Tags | Archives

Sign up to have the latest blog posts sent straight to your inbox!

or RSS feed:

Don't Let Technology Hurdles Crush Inspiration

Lori Halley 07 March 2012 0 comments

Are technology hurdles preventing your organization from sharing inspirational messages? Here's a look at a video by John Haydon that offers practical advice for removing those hurdles.
Read More
What is Google Plus?

Lori Halley 11 July 2011 3 comments

There's lots of buzz about Google+, which is in “limited field trial. Here is a sample of some early reviews from the non-profit blogosphere.
Read More
SEO Keywords for Small Nonprofits

Lori Halley 20 June 2011 4 comments

Your nonprofit website is supposed to help new people – prospective donors, members, and advocates – find your organization online. But what if it’s not showing up in the search engines?
Read More
Free All-Access Animoto for Educators

Lori Halley 31 May 2008 2 comments

Imagine a Web 2.0 tool that combines your images and music to create a flashy video presentation. It's quick and easy to use, and the results can make the standard digital slideshow look like something from the last decade. That's Animoto.
Read More
Wild Apricot Updates and Plans. May 2008

Lori Halley 28 May 2008 2 comments

Recent updates On May 22nd, we released our longest update ever — Wild Apricot version 2.33. It included two really big chunks of work: Redesign of payment workflows for events, donations and membership payments. In our next release, around the end...
Read More
Easy Embedded Tables for Your Website or Blog: Part 2

Lori Halley 26 May 2008 5 comments

In the first part of this article, we talked about various ways to show data in tables on your website or blog -- their strengths and their limitations. Here, we'll take a closer look at how to use Zoho Sheet, Google Spreadsheets, or DabbleDB to create a searchable, interactive table that you can easily embed in your web page, and update as easily as you update the original spreadsheet.
Read More
Read the Words: Free Text-to-Speech Tool

Lori Halley 23 May 2008 7 comments

Sometimes it just isn’t possible for your website's visitors to read what you have to say. Perhaps a visitor has limited vision, or other physical challenges that make onscreen reading difficult. Perhaps reading itself may be a challenge for him. But accessibility can be about more than physical, mental, educational, and similar limitations. Some members of your target audience may simply be too busy to take the time to read your website or blog. If you can give those people the ability to multi-task — to listen to your blog posts on an mp3 player as they go about their other business, for example — you'll give your message one more chance to get out there and be heard.
Read More
Help a Reporter — Get Free Media Exposure

Lori Halley 20 May 2008 4 comments

When your spokesperson is interviewed on the TV evening news, that's air time worth far more than most nonprofits could hope to afford as an advertising purchase. And when your organization is quoted in the press, that lends an air of credibility that you just can't buy at any price. Advertising is telling your own story. Publicity is when someone else tells your story for you. And there's no question which type of communication packs the biggest public relations punch.
Read More
Easy Embedded Tables for Your Website or Blog: Part One

Lori Halley 15 May 2008 1 comments

Some kinds of information are best presented in table form: school alumni lists, genealogy data, annotated lists of resources, survey results and statistical data, and so on. When you have several data fields for each item, a simple list won't cut it. Here are 5 methods you might choose to show a table on your web page.
Read More
5pm offers Easy Online Project Management - with 50% discount for nonprofits

Lori Halley 12 May 2008 16 comments

Project management software is a tough and competitive field. With so many excellent choices out there, it's hard to know what tools will work best for your organization's needs. Do you want web-based or desktop application? Which features will you...
Read More
How Well Does Your Website Work for its Users?

Lori Halley 08 May 2008 5 comments

How easy do you think it should be to make a charitable donation? Getting a charity to accept your money might not be quite as easy as you'd think — if the charity's website is designed to meet its own needs, that is, rather than the needs of the people...
Read More
Web 2.0 Nonprofit Success Stories - Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants

Lori Halley 05 May 2008 1 comments

The "Web 2.0 Nonprofit Success Stories" submitted to the NPC Carnival this week led to a selection of nonprofit organizations that are widely varied in terms of size, budget, and reach. Each group is using the Internet and Web 2.0 tools in a different...
Read More