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04.30.10Convio goes public!Convio (CNVO) went public yesterday! The IPO did quite well considering the circumstances. When assessing the two tech IPOs of the day, the second being a hardware manufacturer, an industry analyst said: "You can keep selling the same (software) code over and over again. On the hardware side, that stuff is obsolete. By the time it is released, there is already something better in development," said Morningnotes.com founder Ben Holmes. Convio was hoping to raise $56.5 million with this IPO. The good news for me is that I can now more easily follow Convio in the same way I follow Blackbaud. Unfortunately, the ...
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10.29.09Do me a favor — vote for Perla Ni on the Huffington PostHuffington Post is looking for readers to vote for the ultimate game changer in Philanthropy. And I think the readers have so far voted Perla Ni, head of greatnonprofits.org, to be the ultimate game changer. I'd like her to keep that lead and to do so, I urge you all to consider throwing in a vote. She's trying to create a Yelp for Nonprofits which is sorely needed in the nonprofit world. Any time I see someone promoting democratic oversight of nonprofits, I'm all for it.
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10.02.09Mobile phones to the rescue in Indonesia, Philippines and SamoaFrom the UN Dispatch: Over the weekend a deadly tropical storm slammed into the Philippines, causing severe flooding in urban areas and affecting tens of thousands. Tuesday, a powerful underwater earthquake triggered a tsunami with waves 15 to 20 feet high that crashed into the Samoa islands, destroying homes and taking lives. Then yesterday and today two successive and devastating earthquakes struck the Indonesian island of Sumatra, leaving thousands buried in rubble and in desperate need of aid. Groups funded by the UN Foundation and Vodafone Foundation Technology Partnership are deployed in all three Pacific Ocean emergencies to provide vital communications services ...
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07.17.09Blogging Budget For NonprofitsLewis Kelley from the National Forest Foundation has asked how much it would cost for their organization to blog. The purpose of this post is to discuss a basic yearly budget that encompasses setup costs, labor costs and online services. Let's do some of the basic math. Continue Reading...
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06.24.09Towards a New Kind of Nonprofit Website, Part IIYou've read about my operational plan and theorems in Part I of this series. Here's why I chose Drupal to carry out the Asian Pacific Americans for Progress website instead of Wordpress. Continue Reading...
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06.22.09Why Your Nonprofit’s Volunteer Base Should Blog for Your NonprofitUpdated 10/2/2009 (new graphic and stats!) An alert reader has asked me for a chart on the effect of blog entries on site traffic. I took the time to create a little data table from the Google Analytics reports for APA for Progress. Please be aware that the Jun-09 figures were run on 6/22 so the figures are incomplete for June. These figures run from 1/1/2009 to 9/31/2009. In essence, I'm adding 3 months of extra data. As you can see in the chart above, there's a high correlation (.883) (previously .945) between the number of blog entries and ...
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06.20.09Towards a New Kind of Nonprofit Website, Part II've been doing some research lately on building websites for a political advocacy group, Asian Pacific Americans for Progress (APAP). I haven't been posting lately because I went down a VERY, VERY deep Drupal, information architecture and SEO rabbit hole for the last few months. I would have written this post sooner but I really wanted to confirm a lot of my thoughts first with site traffic measurements. Basically, this is a story of how a very small political advocacy group went from zero to hero in roughly six months. This is going to be a long post so let's ...
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05.04.09Animoto For a CauseCheck out Animoto for a Cause! I've been a long time user of Animoto and I'm actually a paid subscriber to Animoto. I've had a lot of fun working with their software to make vacation videos out of pictures I've taken. The way Animoto works is that you upload a bunch of pictures to their site and perhaps an MP3 for a soundtrack and their software creates a video out of your media. For nonprofits, this is a godsend especially since most nonprofits don't have dedicated staff for making sophisticated multimedia. The time it takes to upload pics and video ...
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03.12.09Google Voice: A New Tool For Nonprofits But Not So Great for Community VoicemailUPDATE (3/14/2009 1:07 AM EDT): Check out the blog post from Community Voice Mail addressing my concerns. Oddly, the blogger there claims to have left comments here but I don't see anything. Just so you all know, I don't moderate comments except if you put more than one external HTML link in your comment as that's a sign you may be a spammer. On to the original article... Launched today, Google Voice is the newest update to Grandcentral, a service I've used since near its inception. It generates a universal phone number that ties together various services such as all ...
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03.09.09Republicans Issue Terrible RFP for Their Web SiteHey, what can I say? I read Redstate. It's been fun watching Republicans implode. However, Redstate pointed to a recent RFP issued by the Republican National Committe that seems to encapsulate all the technical problems that the Republicans are experiencing. I point out this RFP only as an instructional guide as to how NOT to write an RFP for your website redesign. The RNC issued a TWO page RFP for a complete redesign of their website. The modus operandi for the redesign as expressed by Michael Steele: Continue Reading...
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