The Nonprofit Blog Exchange

This week I’ll be participating in the pilot effort of the Nonprofit Blog Exchange. It’s a project for anyone who works for or with mission-based organizations. The goals of the project are to: promote cross-awareness and cooperation among nonprofit/ngos with diverse missions and to encourage nonprofit bloggers to visit other non-profit blogs. Nonprofit organizations are using blogs in new ...Read more
Posted in Uncategorized, September 10, 2005 | 0 comments

Two Cool New Online Fundraising Tools / Techniques

This week I learned about a couple of very cool things going on in online fundraising. First: The Greater Chicago Food Depository and other similar nonprofits are using a platform called “AidMatrix” to conduct virtual food drives. Here’s how AidMatrix explains what they do: “Aidmatrix leverages the power of technology and partnerships to bring items such ...Read more
Posted in Uncategorized, April 15, 2005 | 0 comments

Redesign, Restructure or Refresh?

Website Redesign, Restructure, or Refresh – What Makes the Most Sense? I recently attended a very good presentation put on by NetContent Chicago and the Association of Multimedia Communications. In the session, three different web companies – one very high end, one mid range, and one low end that deals with a lot of nonprofits – addressed ...Read more
Posted in Uncategorized, Websites, February 18, 2005 | 0 comments

Marketplace Morning Report on Blogging

Pat Marcus at WABE in Atlanta pointed me to this link where you can listen to an interesting story that aired on public radio’s Marketplace Morning Report about how customers and CEOs are beginning to harness the power of the blog. Take a listen. Let me know if you find an interesting article or audio ...Read more
Posted in Uncategorized, February 4, 2005 | 0 comments

AARP: Great Example of Explaining "Trusted Sender Lists"

I was looking at some websites of various organizations this afternoon to look for some info for a client and I happened upon this page on the AARP website. Scroll down the page and read the part about how various ISPs handle spam filtering. It explains clearly how you can check to see if something ...Read more
Posted in Uncategorized, January 19, 2005 | 0 comments