Karen Graham, executive director of Idealware, interviewed me earlier this year on designing and logistics of hands-on training; This is Part I of the interview on logistics. It was originally posted on idealware.com. Offering technology training is a great way to boost user adoption and improve technology effectiveness—except sometimes the training really stinks. I interviewed […]
Top 5 most read stories – Daily #NPTech News via @Nuzzel
Since April 16th, 2017, our new #NPTech News daily newsletter goes out every day, except Sundays, to our subscribers at 10 am. Here are the Top 5 most read stories from last week. The most important piece curating content daily is the discovery of relevant content. The Nuzzel app helps me quickly what sites we follow on […]
Why WordPress for Nonprofits?
There are plenty of content management systems available in the internet space. In 2009, in the context of finding a replacement tool for a proprietary, highly-outdated, web app at the local Community Network Naples Free-Net, I took about 12 months to test plenty of content management systems. Non-Technical Aspects of Content Management Systems How can […]
National and Global Public Awareness & Giving Day 2017 as Google Calendar
Heather Mansfield, Nonprofit Tech 4 Good, published the 2017 Cause Awareness & Giving Day Calendar earlier this month. This took a lot of work! And it will save you a lot of time of research for planning your nonprofit activism and community outreach on Twitter & Instagram for this year! We created a Google Sheet and uploaded […]
WordCamp US Session Picks for Nonprofits – Live-streaming from Philadelphia
As a Floridian weather wimp, I prefer to stay in Florida for the Winter. As much as I would enjoy meeting fellow WordPress evangelists, developers and educators and geek-out over Rest API or the Customizer at WordCamp US in Philadelphia, I prefer to be an armchair WordCamper, armed with my Chromecast and a Livestream ticket. WordCamp […]
Google Index Goes Mobile First. Soon.
Google announced in early November that they would index mobile pages first. And only as plan B, they will index desktop version of websites. TL;DR: If you already have a responsive website and the content on both versions are the same, you don’t have to do anything. If you serve mobile visitors a stripped down version, and […]
Google: go HTTPS or go home
Last month, my partner in Relevanza, Steve Hart, wrote about Google’s push for a secure website on Relevanza Blog. To force website developers to a more secure online status the world’s most popular browser, Chrome, will be a tool for Google: go HTTPS or go home. Google will begin in January to warn internet users […]
Thinking about organizing tech training for your staff? TechSoup has the right course for you!
More and more, nonprofit organization are run on technology in all different ways. A lot of small organization have major functions staff with volunteers with different levels of technology education. Organizations will need to make space for tech training of staff and volunteer. TechSoup just unveiled a new online learning system and published the first […]
How to create great graphics for social media fast – a video tutorial
Graphics are King! Don’t you believe me? You say, “It’s content.” Yes, you are right. Content is king, but only if you can get the attention of your target audience, and tempt them to click on a link to consume your content. Plenty of stats have been published showing that posts with graphics or gifs […]
Introducing WP4Good Club – WordPress Community for Nonprofits
WordPress can provide an immediate positive impact on the online message of any nonprofit organization, and we are introducing a focused effort to assist you in your communication and branding in the form of an online community – WP4Good club, especially for WordPress nonprofit users. What is WordPress? WordPress is a content management system, and […]