You may have inherited a vast pool of web content written before your time, or you frequently receive lengthy “expert” articles and other contributed pieces to add to the web site you now manage. Not every expert who contributes to a web site is also an expert in writing for the web. Here are a few key ways to edit that web copy and turn the material that you have into great web copy: Cut the fluff. Web writing is often too verbose. MORE
Observations about how web design has evolved over the last decade to be flatter, bigger and simpler, all making it easier to translate into a mobile experience. Interactive Mobile Web Design Goals Non-Profit web design MORE
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Friday, October 2, 2009, is LIVE STRONG Day. As part of the LIVESTRONG Action campaign the LIVE STRONG day is focused on unifying people from all around the world through local events and activities that celebrate cancer survivorship. It’s also designed to generate awareness and foster support so the world can be freed from cancer. MORE
That said, nonprofits would be wise to consider the effect of the Social Web when launching or re-designing their websites. The average Internet user today is barraged with a constant stream of messages in the form of tweets, status updates, shouts, bulletins, e-mail, and “Breaking News!&# MORE
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If you look around the web you see articles for increasing your web visibility through internal and external SEO, but there has to be an easy thing that you can do today to drive web traffic…isn’t there? You hear over and over again that your organization should drive more traffic to your website, but how? MORE
Recently, I’ve been reading the ideas from The Presencing Institute (PI), an action-research community that “creates social technologies, builds capacities, and generates holding spaces for profound societal renewal.” MORE
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With that in mind I’d like to share 4 Keys to Building a Successful Web Site based on similar tactics we’ve deployed on this blog We recently launched a new blog here at Blackbaud Internet Solutions. It’s been an exciting endeavor and given us a lot of insight into using social media for nonprofits and fundraising! Our main goal is to help you learn how to leverage our technology and the tools that make up social media. MORE
The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. Nonprofit staff often need to manage and organize large quantities of web links for later viewing, and bookmarking via browsers is becoming cumbersome. MORE
If that first image did not draw users in, visitors will immediately click off the site as users have very low attention spans on the web. For the last few years, web design has had a lot of focus on drop shadows, gradients, and textures to give design elements a 3D effect. MORE
fact that I can often be found laying in bed at 6am and digging through client web reports. No wonder than, I am commonly asked; “What are the top web analytics reports and tools every nonprofit should know?&#. MORE
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TechSoup is proud to announce the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Grant Credits Program for Nonprofits. MORE
The web has seen multiple updates to HTML and CSS, witnessed the explosion of video, and the meteoric rise in mobile traffic among many other siesmic shifts We’ve come a long way since 1999. MORE
We’ve gathered some of the more popular web design trends from around the Internet. The post 5 Web Design Trends and How Your NPO Can Take Advantage appeared first on Nonprofit Hub. Featured Nonprofit Web Design MORE
Being a great client can help your web project stay on time and on budget. Read 4 easy things you can do to create a great relationship between your organization and an external web team. The post How to Be a Web Developer’s Dream Client appeared first on The See3 Blog. web approvals client collaboration communication project management vision web project MORE
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The post Infographic: What Your Nonprofit’s Web Design Says About You appeared first on Tech Impact Blog - Leaders in Non-Profit Technology. Your nonprofit’s missions statement it’s what give your organization life. Whether it’s helping an undeserved population or demographic, or helping animals avoid abusive situations. At the end of the day, your nonprofit is committed to completing its mission. MORE
The Mobile Web is often discussed as a future trend that nonprofits have time to prepare for, but the reality is that by the end of 2014, the majority of your supporters and donors will be viewing your website, email communications, blogs, and social media content on smartphones and tablets. MORE
Blackbaud is offering a free web seminar series to help nonprofits build strategies for mobilizing, soliciting, and stewarding supporters during and after times of disaster. Blackbaud experts and partners developed the seminars based off of their work with nonprofit customers who responded to the Haiti earthquake. The series, entitled “Lessons Learned from Haiti,” includes five seminars that will take place March through May MORE
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As nonprofits get more efficient and leaner (but not meaner) in managing a 21st century workforce, they're discovering that all kinds of Web 2.0 Social Networking Technology Trends Web 2.0 collaboration tools can help team members in multiple locations communicate smarter and faster with each other. The tools also can help you work closer with partner organizations and volunteers. Here are five tools that we've encouraged our nonprofit clients to try out. MORE
There’s a lingering misconception that direct mail and the web are fundamentally at odds. Good — you’ve been putting the web address on every element in a mail package. Your marketing then becomes part of the web, and isn’t just pointing to it. So it shouldn’t be unexpected that web designers have been using the Internet’s improving speed and stability to incorporate what they can of print’s qualities. Author: Cheryl Black. MORE
Nonprofits have been woefully slow at preparing for the Mobile Web. Responsive web design is rarely discussed or implemented in the nonprofit sector. To get you started, you can study the exceptional examples of responsive web design pioneered by the three nonprofits listed below: 1. MORE
The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. Animoto enables users to turn their photos, video clips, and music into videos that can be uploaded to YouTube and shared on the Social Web. MORE
The evidence is building and it’s becoming harder to ignore: an ever increasing number of people are using phones & tablets to tackle all manner of tasks on the web. Here’s how responsive web design (RWD) can help. MORE
I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of February 24th). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). MORE
And yet despite limited budgets, the early adopter nonprofits began using responsive web design in 2012 in order to adapt quickly to the new realities of Internet browsing. MORE
The web is now everyone’s job. If you’re reading this, it’s probably because publishing information on the web or sending emails or posting to social media accounts are an important part of being successful at your job. Want to get better at writing for the web? MORE
While there are many ways you can ruin your website that will prevent you from effectively telling your organization’s story, inspiring action, and cultivating donors, here are a couple of web design pitfalls that I want to focus on today. MORE
To achieve this, we recommend focusing your mobile web presence on one key message that you want users to take away from your site. Author: Lacey Kruger. I have a little secret to share about designing a mobile website. it's easy! MORE
If that first image did not draw users in, visitors will immediately click off the site as users have very low attention spans on the web. For the last few years, web design has had a lot of focus on drop shadows, gradients, and textures to give design elements a 3D effect. MORE
Note: This is the final installment in a series of posts about the Nonprofit Web Design Process. The Implementation Plan is a deliverable both for the client team and for the web developers that defines everything we’re building. MORE
Note: This is the seventh in a series of posts about the Nonprofit Web Design Process. Quote from Kristina Halvorson) It’s an essential step in the Web Design process that’s often overlooked or skimped upon. MORE
I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of May 9th). MORE
The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. Animoto enables users to turn their photos, video clips, and music into videos that can be uploaded to YouTube and shared on the Social Web. MORE
Our web team provides definitions and explanations for basic web lingo to help you understand what makes your website work. The post Web Lingo 101: IP Addresses, Hosting, Domains and FTP appeared first on See3 Advice for Do-Gooders. strategy domain domain name hosting ip address web lingo website Ever wonder how your IP address and domain name work together? Or what a hosting server does? MORE
Online Marketing Social Networking Trends Web 2.0Did you know that there are over 156 million public blogs, according to Wikipedia. That's a lot of competition for all you nonprofit campaigners and bloggers. How do you make your blog stand out? MORE
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