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5 Design Techniques That Will Increase the Lifespan of Your Nonprofit’s Website

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The titles, excerpts, or post summaries can vary dramatically depending on the writer and the content. You don’t need to go all-out creating a design system with code samples—even a living document with screenshots and a few notes on how each pattern is used would help. 2) Content that was originally static but needs to be updated.

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Love is in the Air: A Wrap-Up of the First NTEN Thanks Day

NTEN

In it are Beth Kante r of Beth's Blog , and Amy Sample Ward from NetSquared. So, in summary, #NTENThanks to all of you, for keeping us and each other going. As a part-time poet, I have a thing for words. Here are some of the best and most used words (according to this Twitter Stream Graph ) from your thanks: Always. Inspirational.

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Playing the Social by Social Game: London Net Tuesday

Amy Sample Ward

The core team was the same: David Wilcox, Andy Gibson and Amy Sample Ward - all co-authors, with Cass Business School of the forthcoming Social by Social handbook. It was a lot of fun, and since Andy was doing an excellent job of facilitating, and Amy was mentoring the groups, I was able to capture proceedings on video.

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How To Develop a Social Media Plan in Five Easy Steps

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Amy Sample Ward contributed a workshop group exercise based on Forrester's POST method. Yep, that is the fun part. In summary, The Mashable How To Develop a Social Media Plan is a simplified, step-by-step approach that's really practical and useful for nonprofit organizations. Find people. Set rules of engagement.

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Great reads from around the web on January 29th

Amy Sample Ward

" Why We're In the Age of the Citizen Philanthropist – There's a great post up on Mashable with quotes from Britt Bravo (Have Fun Do Good), Kari Dunn Saratovsky (Case Foundation), and Peter Panepento (Chronicle of Philanthropy). "Our

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Come On, U.S., Give the Kids Their Rights

Have Fun - Do Good

Amnesty International also has a sample letter template you can send to your Senator, and has created an unofficial summary of the 42 main provisions of the Convention for you to peruse. The International Rescue Committee (IRC) has launched an online petition urging President Obama and the U.S. Congress to ratify the agreement.

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Relationships and Engagement Fundraising

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Their hope was to develop a fun way to bring families together - old and young - to have some fun while ultimately raising money and funds for those battling childhood cancers. Unfortunately, there isn't a top line summary of the key points any place online. In fact, Taylor was named VP of Game Development throughout that time.