I’ve started working with more and more Wordpress-based nonprofit Web sites such as those at asianamericansforobama.com and apaforprogress.org , stepping in after the site has been set up. What follows is a checklist of common errors that I’ve seen that you can use with your site designer if your non-profit is creating a Wordpress site. It should also serve as a follow-up Many of these items are generic to Web sites in general but Wordpress sites especially suffer when these things aren’t done. Some of these issues are very detailed but that’s just

Here’s why I chose Drupal to carry out the Asian Pacific Americans for Progress website instead of Wordpress . Don’t get me wrong, I still love Wordpress for smaller nonprofits but once your nonprofit has started to do multi-user blogging or if your nonprofit is very aggressive in the online space, you can’t really take Wordpress in that direction. Acquia is the company that is dedicated full-time to Drupal development You’ve read about my operational plan and theorems in Part I of this series . Drupal is very good at building complex websites

upgraded C3’s site to WordPress 2.7 As a blogger, there’s a lot to like about 2.7. For starters, the “at a glance” view in WordPress 2.6.x WordPress 2.7’s Related posts: Debating WordPress 2.1 It’s Once again, I waited a while before leaping into the upgrade. This was the day for it.

I got a comment on one of my vlogging for nonprofits posts from Devlon of LoadedPun who tipped me off to a wordpress plugin that he created for live vlog/blog pledge drives. (It It allows a vlogger/blogger to add pledge drive on the blog - visitors can pledge, have it be linked to PayPal, and then have a graph show the progress towards the goal. It was used for the HaveMoneyWillVlog project.) Now, I don't necessarily see this as a substitute for online fundraising strategy/system, but I find it interesting as a online grassroots technique.

At some point yesterday morning, my WordPress database disappeared and was replaced with a default WordPress install. That tiny print is the copy that’s on a default WordPress installation, but with the Thesis theme I use applied to it…kind of. Also working in my favor was the WordPress Database Backup plugin that I’ve had installed for years. Not a fun Friday. It looked like this in Safari:

The world doesn’t need another blogger, right? Blogging tools like WordPress and TypePad automatically add the code for page titles in every new blog post you publish to the Web. utilizes WordPress (a blogging platform) and the statistical data WordPress provides  has been incredibly helpful in helping me understand my readers and the content that they are most interested in. There are currently 133 million blogs worldwide. Wrong.

You can have your choice of Drupal or Wordpress and they’ll even migrate your existing Wordpress installation for you for free. front-end developer (someone who can integrate your design into Wordpress or Drupal) As for the design, sadly, design is very, very custom and I suggest you find a designer that not only is a good designer but one that is also knowledgeable about the platform (either Drupal or Wordpress) that Lewis Kelley from the National Forest Foundation has asked how much it would cost for their organization to blog. The purpose of this post

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If you're reading this, you've already figure out my preference for blogging is using Google's blogger. There are other good options out there, including TypePad and WordPress , so why Blogger over these other two? For starters, blogger is very easy. If you can send an email, you can do a blog post. Plus, many people already have a gmail account which makes it easy for them to comment on your Blogger blog.

There are many third party applications like Wordpress and Blogger on which you can host a blog with very little technical knowledge. Yes, you have to do a bit more than just typing to add the images and format the style of the page, but there are simple templates to work with as well (for example, this blog is served on a standard Blogger template). On Monday, David Klevan (from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum) and I spoke at the MAAM Creating Exhibitions conference about Web 2.0 and museums.