While working to increase traffic to your website or better highlight your campaigns, I’m sure many of you have encountered the big ‘SEO’ issues. Not sure what SEO is? Search Engine Optimization is a term that started with the corporate world—all those companies competing to ensure that their links pop up at the top of [...]

Tags: SEO, Web

The Chronicle of Philanthropy recently held an online forum with Beth Kanter of Beth’s Blog and Jonathon Colman of The Nature Conservancy. They addressed questions such as: What are the best methods for driving traffic to your Web site? How should I promote my organization’s Facebook page? How do we increase visibility for our campaign [...]

Tags: Online Fundraising, Web

NTEN published the results of its Content Management System Satisfaction Survey a couple of weeks back, so if you haven’t seen it yet and are considering different CMS types for your organization, it’d be worth taking a look. More than 1,000 people participated in the survey, providing ratings for more than 27 different systems ranging [...]

Tags: CMS, Web

A posting on the Information Systems Forum listserve alerted me to TechRepublic’s list of 60 Indispensable Microsoft Word tips. Some are basic, like Undo (I hope everyone already knows that one). But many were new to me, like how to select multiple, noncontiguous words, clear the contents of a table with one keystroke, create styles [...]

Tags: Microsoft, Software

Citizen Schools and the Public Learning Media Laboratory have launched a survey to gather detail about specific Web 2.0 and social networking technologies that nonprofits are using. This follows a survey the groups published in March, called Web 2.0 & Social Networking Nonprofit Survey (PDF).  That survey found: Respondents were optimistic about the value of [...]

Tags: Social Media, Web 2.0