Email newsletters, how hard can they be? Well, I just set up my first HTML e-newsletter campaign and it’s been a difficult, sometimes frustrating experience, but worthwhile because email is a great marketing tool. I never realised it would all be so complicated! Read the full article »
The Connecting Up conference is a nonprofit technology event that’s being held in Brisbane this year, from 19th to 20th May. It’ll be my first visit to Brisbane and I’m really looking forward to a short holiday. There’s an excellent line-up of speakers and some really interesting topics going to be discussed.
I’ll be presenting on the topic of planning your nonprofit website’s development so here’s an outline of the workshop. Read the full article »
Baptcare is large nonprofit organisation providing care services in the state of Victoria, Australia. With over 760 staff based in several dozen locations, working in very different projects, good internal communication is vital. That’s why their Intranet is so important to them.
An Intranet is like a website except that it’s only available to people working within the organisation. It’s used to share information internally rather than to publicly promote the organisation’s services. Recently I designed their Intranet’s home page. Read the full article »
As a follow up to the talk I gave about my experiences of the Circuit Rider programme in the UK, Doing IT Better are holding a workshop to take the discussion forward another step: how exactly could such a programme be implemented in the Victorian community sector?
Circuit riders are roving ICT workers with a caseload of small non-profit organisations that would not otherwise be able to afford ICT advice and support. Circuit riding is a model of ICT support that has already proven its value in the US and UK and in other countries.
If you’re interested in the provision of ICT support to non-profits, why not attend Doing IT Better’s workshop? It will be held on 22nd April in central Melbourne.
MANSEO is short for Mother of All Nonprofit Search Engines Optimized. It’s a search engine that only searches nonprofit technology websites. Why might that interest you? Well, type in keywords about web design (I just tested it by typing “CSS”, “Joomla”, “donations”, “CMS”) and all the results should all be specific to nonprofits’ use of these technologies.
That makes Manseo a great tool for when you want to find examples of what’s worked for other charities, what’s good practice and what’s being discussed by your peers about any tech topic. Manseo currently searches 227 websites but more are being added by a small team of volunteers (I’m adding some UK and Australian websites).
Many charities would benefit from the occasional assistance of a volunteer with IT skills. That’s why IT4Communities was set up to match charities with IT professionals wanting to volunteer their skills.
IT4Communities has a case studies section on their website, showcasing some of their successful volunteer projects. Some of these are web design projects and are worth a read if you’re either a charity looking for help or you’re considering being an online volunteer. One of the case studies is about how I gave a website health check to The Theatre Royal Stratford East. Read the full article »
The Addiction Search Engine was designed to help people find reliable information on the web about addiction-related issues. It uses the free Google Custom Search tool and was set up by the Ana Liffey Drug Project, a not-for-profit organisation in Ireland. This case study explains how they did it. Read the full article »
Google has a new section on its website listing its free tools that are useful to non-profit organisations. At www.google.com/nonprofits you’ll find a list of these tools. Click on each one to go to a page that explains how your organisation could benefit and how to get started. Read the full article »
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