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

Nonprofit Tech for Good

While these techniques can’t change the past, here are some design ideas to help your organization adjust and optimize your website in the future. Once your website is designed and structured according to this technique, it becomes easier to update it when those needs change by asking these questions: Which tasks don’t apply anymore?

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Philanthropy and Social Media: New Whitepaper from The Institute for Philanthropy

Amy Sample Ward

That might look like sharing a picture from a concert, while you are still at the concert. In 2009, for example, two trapped girls in Australia chose to post to facebook for help rather than dialing emergency numbers directly. Another great example is Epic Change. Philanthropy has been able to move into the real time web, too.

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And the 2013 Digital Storytelling Challenge Awards Go To.

Tech Soup

I cried multiple times while making this short film and sifting through the footage provided to us by Chris De Souza and Ken Bartsch from YWAM in Wollongon, Australia. Winning 3 rd place overall is Water School based out of Vancouver Canada, for their story “the solar solution that is changing the world.” Second Place.

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Nonprofit Strategic Planning: Ultimate Guide + 7 Examples

Bloomerang

For example, if you’re undergoing frequent staff turnover, a change in leadership, or are understaffed, you may find an issues-based strategic planning model to be the best choice. This extended time frame means the document is intended to be a living, flexible blueprint that will evolve as the community’s needs change.

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Blueprint Book Club Part 2: Museums as Battlefields in the History Wars

Museum 2.0

This guest post was written by Regan Forrest , exhibition developer and visitor experience researcher at the University of Queensland in Australia. It’s a far more complex picture to present. To what extent would changing political tides have influenced the outcome? We don’t know how things would have evolved from opening day.

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9 Ways Nonprofits Can Excel Using Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He works for an NGO in Australia and we met on Twitter (via Eddie Harran ) prior to his visit to America to attend the Wisdom 2.0 He discusses a way of seeing both the big strategic picture and the smaller immediate tactics. Also, the way people are consuming content is changing because of social media.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

It evolves to meet our changing needs, to fit our changing lifestyles, and to integrate into the way we do our work. Working together, citizens could piece together news stories as well as facts from witnesses as they emerged to create the most complete picture of events. Direct Content. Examples from Haiti.

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