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 »
Published on May 8th, 2008
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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).
Published on April 3rd, 2008
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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 »
Published on March 23rd, 2008
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I’m at the Making Links conference in Sydney, Australia. It’s a forum for workers from non-profit organisations to get together and share skills and information about IT, web development and using technology.
I’m about to give a short presentation on how nonprofits can use Google Custom Search Engines (CSE) to quickly build their own free tools based on Google’s extremely popular search engine. I’ve written about Google CSE before but I’d like to share the five examples I’ll be giving at the conference. Read the full article »
Published on October 30th, 2007
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Google is the best-known and most popular search engine and it searches billions of web pages to find matches for the keywords you type in. By and large it does a good job so why would your charity want to make its own search engine? Let’s take two common scenarios: Read the full article »
Published on August 31st, 2007
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