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01.05.09Blackbaud Releases Figures on GivingSteve MacLaughlin wrote me today about giving trends for users of Blackbaud's Internet solutions. It's the kind of data I'd love to see released more often so that we could better understand how online fundraising was being affected by macroeconomic trends. Here's an interesting finding: Continue Reading...
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12.24.08How to Set Up Wordpress for Your Non-ProfitI'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 to my previous article recommending Wordpress for nonprofits. 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 ...
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12.18.08Philanthropy and Nonprofit Top 25 List - December 2008I compiled this list using the same methodology I used for my October 2007 list. Unfortunately, I still can't compile a list of nonprofits outside the US. Quantcast and compete.com don't do a good job of checking out international sites so I'm still limited by their inability to go outside US borders. Check out the list after the jump... Continue Reading...
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12.15.08Télécoms Sans Frontières’ Works in the CongoIt's always nice to see techies doing front-line work. From the UN Foundation: Télécoms Sans Frontières’ (TSF) began humanitarian calling operations in Matanda, a transit camp situated 30 kms from the Congolese border where an estimated 10,000 people are sheltered. The team also installed a satellite based Internet connection for aid agencies in Kihihi, a small town turned into a humanitarian base camp 30 minutes from Matanda. At present, aid organizations such as UNHCR, UNICEF, WFP, MSF, Oxfam, Save the Children or ACF are working to provide help to those who have lost everything after fleeing the fighting in Democratic Republic ...
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12.15.08Leaderboard Update: Wordpress Perfect for Small NonprofitsI've been using Wordpress now since the inception of this blog and used it for several other blogs as well. I haven't been recommending Wordpress mainly because it has needed a lot of care and loving from an administrator. No longer. Wordpress can now update itself with the click of a button by its administrator. This totally changes the game and gets us closer to a Web publishing model that more or less removes the need for a techie on a daily or weekly basis. If you're a nonprofit that has less than 5 people on their Web team, I suggest ...
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12.14.08How to Buy a Small Nonprofit IT SystemEver wonder what it takes to get a IT system up and running as a nonprofit under 25 people? In these difficult economic times, it's really important to get your act together regarding your nonprofit's finances. When I started out in the tech industry in the 1990s, IT departments were still pretty devoted to heavy iron. Servers and hard drives everywhere complete with a networking core were de rigeur for even a modest office setup. I no longer believe that that should be the case anymore. I think many nonprofits can get away with a kind of virtual IT system where ...
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12.04.08“Charities” vs. “nonprofits” in Google TrendsAbove is a screen shot from Forbes.com. Check out the #1 most searched for item on the site. I find the word "charities" interesting as it is used interchangeably with the word "nonprofit" here in the US. I decided to take a look at a Google Trends comparison between the two terms. Check it out: Continue Reading...
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11.09.08Blackbaud Expands in SpainBlackbaud launches in Spain: eTapestry, a division of Blackbaud Inc. (Nasdaq: BLKB), announced the launch of a partnership with Daryl Upsall Consulting International to offer eTapestry’s Spanish-language version of its on demand fundraising software in Spain. Kicking off this partnership, eTapestry and Daryl Upsall Consulting International (DUCI) will be hosting a free seminar on Nov. 11, demonstrating how nonprofits can use technology to meet their fundraising needs. This half-day event will take place at DUCI, c/ Caleruega 67 in Madrid 28033, Spain. The seminar will be held from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Continue Reading...
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11.09.08Daily Kos Reports on Its Tech InfrastuctureDaily Kos unveiled their new server infrastructure just recently: Hardware is part of the solution, Bingham says. "To handle the traffic better, we moved to a cluster of six quad core Xeons with 8GB RAM for webheads that all boot off a central NFS (Network File System) root, with the capability of adding more webheads as needed," he said. Daily Kos also added two 16GB eight-core Xeons and a 6×73GB RAID-10 array for database files running a MySQL master/slave setup [...] Many database-driven sites facing scalability challenges have looked to the distributed caching system memcached, which helps speed dynamic web applications. Bingham ...
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11.07.08Obama and canvassing technologyHere is a pic of the precinct maps I canvassed in Virginia for the last weekend through Election Day for Obama. I was and still am in the tank for Obama. And yes, I do plan to be at the Inauguration in DC in January. So anyway, I was really excited to see how microtargeting was working out within the Obama campaign. The vaunted Catalist database was supposed to be the backend for everything that us canvassers were working on. I was in Falls Church, VA because it also contained a fairly significant population of Asian Americans. With myself being Filipino American ...
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