Recently I facilitated a discussion about online fundraising in one of our Impact Circles. It’s fair to say that about half of the Executive Directors present did not know that the majority of the laws about charitable fundraising are controlled at the state level. At the time of this writing, there are approximately 40 states […]
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Best places to find graphics and photos for your Social Media and Blogs
We use a small set of sites to find graphics to use as a featured image for a blog post, or as a basis for our social media posts. You also might be looking outside your own organization’s photo albums for enticing graphics to use on your website and social media profiles. We often get this […]
Google Search Console: Treasure Chest for Content Marketing
How do I come up with blogging ideas for my nonprofit website or my online business? A question that is often asked. When you put this issue in the Google search box, you’ll find about 197,000,000 results. One answer for you: Search Analytics in the Google Search Console The most forgotten tool for content creators […]
Designing Hands-On Technology Training
Karen Graham, executive director of Idealware, interviewed me earlier this year on designing and logistics of hands-on training; This is Part II of the interview on designing technology training. It was originally posted on idealware.com. In this second post in our series about hands-on technology training, Birgit Pauli-Haack explains how she creates a training session. […]
Logistics for Hands-On Training
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 […]
Increasing Your Social Media Visibility via Google, Facebook and Twitter
Let’s start with the understanding that the more efficiently you can connect with your target audience, the more successful your social media strategy will be; the higher your social media visibility. To maximize your efficiency you must first understand some basic concepts about Google, Facebook, and Twitter. Google is a search engine, not a Social […]
Donor Bill of Rights
So who is looking out for the donor? In 1993, the Association of Fundraising Professionals published the Donor Bill of Rights. In January, on NPTechProjects we published a blog post about our views on donor privacy. We state very clearly our view that a nonprofit organization has an obligation to be the stewards of the […]
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 […]