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Brief tips on keeping a better website for a non-profit organization.

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This brief article includes some tips for nonprofit fundraising. Marketing concepts are an unavoidable reality of the process. You will need good marketing skills to generate income for a nonprofit organization.

By Amy Potthast, Director, Service and Graduate Programs at Idealist "As a non-techie, I think I can safely say that a hiring nonprofit's current staff may have so little technical knowledge, they don't even know what skills are needed to do a job they want done. This lack of clarity on the employer's part can translate into some confusion and challenges on your part when you apply for a nonprofit job. I chatted with my colleagues on Idealist's web team for pointers to pass along."

Article giving 7 tips on how non profits can use mobile phones to their advantage and gain donations. A good follow-up on class discussion of bar code scanning...

The article include 7 tips on how to choose donor-management software. The alternative is the cloud..The article suggests that there is one to fit any budget but the interaction values have to be individually determined. A willingness to adapt to the structure of good software is recommended over doing the way you always have.

Choosing software for donor management

Facebook page for SNPO, the Society of Non-Profit Organizations with posted links and tips from the organization.

Charity Technology Trust helps nonprofits save money on software. They give tips to your organization so that more money is coming in. They receive donated hardware from places like microsoft and sell it to nonprofits for cheap. roughly, 6,000 charities have benefited from CTT

These are several steps that will help you become more creative when funraising. These tips include: Bcome your own lead technology funder, support training for accidental techies, map critical technology functions to program functions, use nonprofit technology assistance providers, understand the total cost of ownership of technology, and share knowledge and resources.

One very revealing panel (in a web-streamed Advocacy Live event in March) included Eric Jones, the top technology person for Iowa Senator Tom Harkin, who provided tips and advice about ways that online organizers might boost their campaigns' impact on members of Congress and their staffers. Recorded  video event posted by Blackbaud on this webpage.

Another article with tips for better fundraising. The most important message conveyed by this article is to measure fundraising results in reality. There is no need to repeat procedures that aren't delivering.

Giftworks is a nonprofit fundraising software that is customizable to a nonprofit, depending on their specific fundraising needs. They even have a blog that is updated frequently with fundraising tips and other information.

Yet another journalist's/expert's opinion on how to best use facebook for a non-profit, including the importance of goals

Gives good tips on how an organization should use facebook. Some of the good tips promote communicating to the fan-base as well as encourage fan-to-fan communication. One of the most important things about NPOs and Facebook is to have a purpose with your page. This article strongly condemns having a page "just to be on facebook" and says that having a strong purpose makes facebook that much more successful.

"It's important for any digitally-minded non-profit to be on Facebook because of the sheer number of active users. So, great - you set up a Facebook account for your organization. Now what?" Note:  "Eight of the world's top ten brand use the Buddy Media Platform (sponsor of "The Facebook Marketing Series") to power their social marketing on FB."

Although this article speaks mainly about protecting yourself on a network I think it applied very well with this class. It offers many good tips and points as to precautions to take to protect yourself. These precautions are important to consider especially if any work at your non-profit or public place of employment can be completed outside of work at at perhaps a local "hot-spot". This leads me to wonder how safe the new cellphone hot-spots are.

I think as technology progresses we will find more and more services such as this. This could prove to be very useful for people who find the tax season complicated and tedious. I think that this is a good attempt by the IRS to incorporate technology into their services to the public.

QR codes explained in a bit more detail...

Some helpful tips for if/when you have to register a domain name for your nonprofit's website, and it's already taken. Creative names are worth money, and people are happy to squat on them for as long as possible. These are just a few ways to help get around it.

Radio can also have an impact on NPOs