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 […]
Why IT Needs to be a Part of Your strategy
In order to appreciate the need for an IT Strategy, we need to first understand why we need an organization strategy, and then a little about what makes up a strategy for your not for profit organization. I recently read an article on NPEngage by Rose Gear about the basics for a strategy in a […]
Better Stories With Data
I recently read “Data’s role in your Nonprofit’s Storytelling Strategy”, an article by Josh Mail, Chief Marketing Officer at Relationship Science LLC (RelSci), which was published in the Guidestar blog. Think of all the times, you describe what your organization does, and what you do for it. Elevator Speech Mission Statements Vision Financial Results Each of those […]
Getting search engine visiblity via WordPress Permalinks
More Search Engine Luv’ with WordPress If you look up a subpage or a post on your WordPress site and the browser address bar reads similar to www.yoursiteurl.org/?p=29 or www.yoursiteurl.org/?page_id=48, you are missing a great opportunity to provide the search engine crawlers with information as to the nature and topic of your page or post via a […]
Google for Nonprofits: Instant Rejection – Check IRS public 501(c)(3) Lookup
Our young organization received the official IRS letter of our 501(c)(3) status mid-April, and of course, we got all excited as we are now able to apply for Google for Nonprofits and other services available for nonprofits, i.e., Techsoup. And our supporters now receive tax exemptions. (We still had to register with the Florida Department […]
August 11: Going Pro: Google For Nonprofits – Free Cloud services
Google For Nonprofit is a service by Google offering Google Apps for Work, YouTube for Nonprofits, Google AdWords for Nonprofits and One Today. In this workshop we will give you an overview of each program and, if you’re ready, we can get you started on the application process. For nonprofits already on Google for Nonprofit, […]
Valley of Death of Change – Dip or Cul-de-sac?
As a consultant and technology volunteer, I work in a variety of capacities with a broad range of nonprofit organizations. Although my work touches various aspects of technology, I am sometimes a system administrator, a web developer, digital marketer or data wrangler. Most of the time I spent my time as a project manager. For […]
The Accidental Techie: Using Analytics
The point in the quote I am using is to tell you that you do not have to become a Data Analyst to be able to use Data. This blog is intended to help you to begin to ask the right kind of questions about Data, and how to help others become smarter and […]