Comments on: Blogging Budget For Nonprofits http://www.nonprofittechblog.org/blogging-budget-for-nonprofits Confessions of a Non-Profit Executive Director Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:12:34 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Contract Hire http://www.nonprofittechblog.org/blogging-budget-for-nonprofits/comment-page-1#comment-100805 Contract Hire Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:38:31 +0000 http://www.nonprofittechblog.org/?p=3902#comment-100805 Thank you for finding the time to create such an interesting and idea inspiring blog.I like the way you have described this post.This post is different from what I read on most blog.I learn some good point from this post.keep blogging. Thank you for finding the time to create such an interesting and idea inspiring blog.I like the way you have described this post.This post is different from what I read on most blog.I learn some good point from this post.keep blogging.

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]]> By: Francesco http://www.nonprofittechblog.org/blogging-budget-for-nonprofits/comment-page-1#comment-100673 Francesco Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:55:18 +0000 http://www.nonprofittechblog.org/?p=3902#comment-100673 Great article with good points! When thinking about free and a non-profit I would think about a professional service given for free. For wireframing there are tools that are giving their services for free or at a special discount to non profits: pidoco.com and protoshare.com are a valid example I would like to encourage non-profits to seek and ask services to professional companies, like salesforce.com, that give some of their time to non profit. This is the way to achieve professional services free. @Monica Flores do you have more information about wordpress to drupal benefits? I would like to know better if it is only a technical point of view or something else. Keep Blogging Francesco Great article with good points!

When thinking about free and a non-profit I would think about a professional service given for free.
For wireframing there are tools that are giving their services for free or at a special discount to non profits: pidoco.com and protoshare.com are a valid example

I would like to encourage non-profits to seek and ask services to professional companies, like salesforce.com, that give some of their time to non profit.

This is the way to achieve professional services free.

@Monica Flores do you have more information about wordpress to drupal benefits? I would like to know better if it is only a technical point of view or something else.

Keep Blogging
Francesco

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]]> By: Jon Biedermann http://www.nonprofittechblog.org/blogging-budget-for-nonprofits/comment-page-1#comment-100618 Jon Biedermann Fri, 02 Oct 2009 01:13:12 +0000 http://www.nonprofittechblog.org/?p=3902#comment-100618 I do think Allan is trying to convey that staff time, combined with a proper infrastructure, will do much better. The problem with 'FREE' is that there is never a guarantee that what you are using will work every time, or even nearly all the time. Don't believe me? Ask the folks at Gmail where both the free and paid service went down twice in the last 2 months. I agree with Allan that if you are serious about blogging and social networking, you need to make the *reasonable* investment of both money and time. At the end of the day, even for the typical non-profit in America with an average revenue base of $100k-$250k, it pays off in the long run. -Jon Jon Biedermann Vice President DonorPerfect CRM Fundraising Software <a href="http://www.donorperfect.com" target="_blank">www.donorperfect.com</a> <a href="http://www.donorperfect.com/dpoblog" target="_blank">www.donorperfect.com/dpoblog</a> I do think Allan is trying to convey that staff time, combined with a proper infrastructure, will do much better.

The problem with 'FREE' is that there is never a guarantee that what you are using will work every time, or even nearly all the time.

Don't believe me? Ask the folks at Gmail where both the free and paid service went down twice in the last 2 months.

I agree with Allan that if you are serious about blogging and social networking, you need to make the *reasonable* investment of both money and time.

At the end of the day, even for the typical non-profit in America with an average revenue base of $100k-$250k, it pays off in the long run.

-Jon

Jon Biedermann
Vice President
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]]> By: Monica S. Flores http://www.nonprofittechblog.org/blogging-budget-for-nonprofits/comment-page-1#comment-100591 Monica S. Flores Wed, 09 Sep 2009 04:36:22 +0000 http://www.nonprofittechblog.org/?p=3902#comment-100591 In this case, however, and I have the analytics reports to prove it, the conversion from a basic Wordpress 2.4 hosted system on the APA for Progress site to the Drupal version made a difference from approximately 400 - 1000 visitors a month max to now a very comfortable range of 12000 - 15000+ visitors per month. That 12x traffic increase means additional eyeballs who are becoming engaged with the nonprofit and who have an opportunity to go through the "funnel" of involvement with the organization. Put it this way: if you had about $1000 coming in every month in donations, and after your up-front investment in tech infrastructure, you now have $12,000 coming in every month in donations or membership signups, I definitely think it is worthwhile to lobby for that up-front investment in technology and staff capacity. You reach more people and thus more potential volunteers, donors, board members, community members. In this case, however, and I have the analytics reports to prove it, the conversion from a basic Wordpress 2.4 hosted system on the APA for Progress site to the Drupal version made a difference from approximately 400 – 1000 visitors a month max to now a very comfortable range of 12000 – 15000+ visitors per month.

That 12x traffic increase means additional eyeballs who are becoming engaged with the nonprofit and who have an opportunity to go through the "funnel" of involvement with the organization.

Put it this way: if you had about $1000 coming in every month in donations, and after your up-front investment in tech infrastructure, you now have $12,000 coming in every month in donations or membership signups, I definitely think it is worthwhile to lobby for that up-front investment in technology and staff capacity.

You reach more people and thus more potential volunteers, donors, board members, community members.

]]> By: Jacob Harold http://www.nonprofittechblog.org/blogging-budget-for-nonprofits/comment-page-1#comment-100582 Jacob Harold Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:21:00 +0000 http://www.nonprofittechblog.org/?p=3902#comment-100582 I'd argue that everyone is right here. From a technical perspective I think that a free site like Wordpress or Blogger is going to be a better solution for most nonprofits--not so much for the cost but because they're a bit less work. But, it is also true that the key consideration isn't technical, it's about staff time--and figuring out how much investment is actual worthwhile to advance an organization's mission. I'd argue that everyone is right here. From a technical perspective I think that a free site like Wordpress or Blogger is going to be a better solution for most nonprofits–not so much for the cost but because they're a bit less work. But, it is also true that the key consideration isn't technical, it's about staff time–and figuring out how much investment is actual worthwhile to advance an organization's mission.

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