Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 24, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #5: WordPress January 24, 2008 It seems like a good day to talk about WordPress. Anyway, WordPress is a blogging tool (in fact, the one that runs this blog.)

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

Use hashtags strategically to mention important causes, campaigns, and events, but hashtag spamming to try to increase your reach doesn’t work and has a negative effect on engagement. In truth, it is difficult to host a successful Twitter Chat if your nonprofit does not have a large, engaged following on Twitter.

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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 24, 2009

At some point yesterday morning, my WordPress database disappeared and was replaced with a default WordPress install. It looked like this in Safari: That tiny print is the copy that’s on a default WordPress installation, but with the Thesis theme I use applied to it…kind of. WordPress 2.3 Although WordPress 2.3

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Subscribers stop opening your emails for several reasons: your emails are going to their spam folders, their email address is no longer in use, or they are simply ignoring your emails because they are no longer interested. An unengaged subscriber is one that has not opened an email from your organization within the last six months.

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Judi Sohn

NOVEMBER 1, 2008

A while back I played with Disqus , a hosted blog comment management system. Then Automattic, the company behind WordPress, purchased Disqus’ biggest competitor : Intense Debate. It also now uses Akismet for spam filtering and it supports Gravatar images. Tags: WordPress Blogging.

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Byte Technology

JANUARY 19, 2017

An eye-catching design; award-winning content; a strong and reliable host server; an intuitive and engaging user experience—the best websites incorporate all these things and more, and missing the boat on one or more of them can spell doom for an e-commerce or blog site. So try to settle on a name that’s catchy.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 13, 2014

But there’s a special magic that happens when we get face-to-face, which is why each month NetSquared organizers in 50 cities across the globe host workshops and socials for the nonprofit tech community. Vancouver, BC: The Canadian Anti-Spam Act: What Nonprofits need to know before July 1. Upcoming Events. Tuesday, June 17, 2014.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

It doesn’t allow commenting on documents, but it’s a great place to create a libary of resources without hosting them yourselves. A Drupal or Wordpress site could include these features by adding modules/plug-ins/widgets. If you open up filesharing, you could expose your members to viruses, unhelpful or inappropriate content, or spam.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

In the past, people would try to game the algorithms by spamming anchor text links to artificially increase their rankings. How to add a sitemap on Google and WordPress. I’d recommend using the free Google (XML) Sitemaps plugin if your site is built on WordPress. To avoid this penalty I recommend using related keywords.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Tools like WordPress (website and blog content) and MailChimp (email marketing) are much easier to work with if users can make simple HTML edits. Newsletter Spam Check :: mail-tester.com. This free tool reveals if your website domain is on a blacklist, flagged for spam, and properly set up for SPF, DKIM, and DMARC protocols.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 27, 2010

First, spam was going to kill email. It certainly is true that most email sent these days is spam, but that hasn’t managed to kill it. There are some hosted versions you can try out. (And Reports of the death of email are, of course rampant, for the past, oh, 10 years or so.

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