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Social Media Best Practices: 12 Tips for Making the Best of Any Social Site

NetWits

Knowing that a good portion of your supporters already participate on the social Web, and with the continued growth and popularity of social media, it’s very likely your nonprofit organization is focused on figuring out how to best utilize sites like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. Build your fan base (just like building your house file).

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4 ways your site should support year-end virtual fundraising

EveryAction

After helping hundreds of organizations prep their own sites for year-end fundraising, we have a few key recommendations: Use integrated tools whenever possible. Ensure your site is easy to maintain. Host the donation page directly on your website rather than requiring donors to leave your site to use a third-party donation tool.

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6 Ways to Strengthen Your Nonprofit’s WordPress Security

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Once inside your site, a hacker can delete pages, plugins, and themes without anyone knowing. Most nonprofits can’t afford to pay a $10,000 ransom every month because a hacker planted a virus on their site. How many months would you lose trying to rebuild your site? 1) Regularly update your plugins.

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Save the Day: Knowing Which WordPress Files to Always Back Up

Byte Technology

From targeted hack attempts to denial of service attacks to unexpected—and all too common—server failures, not having the correct data backed up can cause headaches and even total ruin for a site owner. The Core WordPress Files. Configuration Files. htaccess” file. The “WP-Content” Folder.

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Ways to Improve Your Website’s Performance

Byte Technology

In this age of high customer service expectations, same-day delivery, and instant updates, website visitors are less patient to wait for your site to download. One key thing to keep in mind is that quick sites come with certain sacrifices. HTTP is a response/request protocol used by a browser to pick files from website servers.

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4 Tips For Maintaining Your Nonprofit’s Databases

TechImpact

However, database are also used for storing records, files, other types of information. Duplicate files, profiles, and other data are common for every organization. Let’s not for get the multiple files you might have on one donor or volunteer. Define a standard, such as official file name + mmddyyyy + 2 initials.

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Top 4 Web Hosting Providers for Your Nonprofit’s WordPress Website

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Key benefits of using WP Engine : Daily Backups – full copies of your site’s important files are automatically made every day off-site saving you a lot of time. Multiple Staging Sites – you can make a copy of your WordPress website to test new plugins before adding them to a live site.

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