Building a website is for your nonprofit is not as hard as some people make it seem. As we’ve said before, we recommend using a self-hosted WordPress.org installation over one hosted at WordPress.com because you can take advantage of thousands of free plug-ins created by the WordPress developer community.
Archives for May 2011
How to use your email signature to market your brand
Remember how, in the old days, folks would call on others and, if they weren’t at home, they’d leave their calling card behind? Even in this highly electronic day and age, there’s still room for business cards. But are you maximizing the use of your most basic calling card? And that’s nothing more than […]
Empowering homeless people to tell their own stories
Advocating for the homeless from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Mark Horvath on invisiblepeople.tv & wearevisible.com If you haven’t come face to face with the plight of the homeless, then you need to have Mark Horvath drape his arm around you and introduce you to invisiblepeople.tv and wearevisible.com. Mark, who goes by the handle @hardlynormal […]
A new way to show off your nonprofit’s fundraising projects
This week, Causes released a fundraising tab for Facebook Pages, which is great news for nonprofits that have been investing in Facebook but struggling to find the right fundraising solution for that audience.
Four types of social media strategies for nonprofits
Most nonprofits that jump into social media have one goal: To see how hot or cold the water is. Only when they’ve gotten their feet wet do they scratch their heads wondering: “Why are we in this pool anyway?” Geoff Livingston (1/4 of Zoetica Media) shared a chapter from his book “The Fifth Estate” — […]