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Why bother improving your online web presence? Because a recent study by Harris Interactive and Mindshare Interactive [...]

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The three deadly sins of nonprofit websites

It seems that every nonprofit imaginable has a website. The dirty little secret is that most are horrible! Most should be assigned to the trash. Absolute failures to connect and communicate.
Here’s my take on the top reasons for these failures and some thoughts on improvement.

The Dead Site: Sorry but it’s true; [...]

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Whiteboard video: What is a Wiki?

Many people collaborate on projects via e-mail. But e-mail threads can be cumbersome, attached documents can get lost, and who has the latest version anyway? Wikis solve all that by allowing everyone who has access to a page to read and change it. Check out this 3-minute video explanation provided by BNet here.

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Should Your Nonprofit Launch a Blog?

What’s a Blog? Blogs are websites that take the form of online journals, updated frequently with running commentary on one or many topics. And they are on of the easiest way to provide regularly updated information to your constituents. Because blog creation process is simpler than website creation or print design and [...]

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14 ways to write winning email

Email has become one of the most important means of communication today. And, it will grow in use in the future. However, with the ease and inexpensive nature of email has also come some misuses.
Check out these recommendations to improve your messages:

Your own email address says a lot about you. If you are [...]

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Expand your fundraising with e-newsletters

Need a consistent and inexpensive way to get your fundraising message out? e-Newsletters are an answer.
Every year, Karen Frost from CKUA Radio is tasked with meeting new people, drawing in more donations, and literally keeping her listener-supported radio station – herself included – afloat. Not an easy job when methods of communication are limiting, marketing [...]

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Ten tips for raising money through email

When you are trying to raise money online from your members, visitors, or other constituents, keep these ten tips in mind:

Ask for money for special projects or other hot items, not for general support – and set a deadline. It’s generally easier to raise money for something specific with a deadline than for institutional support. [...]

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Five features for a winning website

These are the essential features that every website must have:

Easy to Read
Easy to Navigate
Easy to Find
Consistent Layout
Quick to Download

Need help creating a website that work? Contact us at 501cWeb.com.

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Using email to build your organization

Email is the killer app on the web! Without a doubt, the use of email is the more commonly used and highest responded to use of the Web. Of the 63% of U.S. citizens who use the Web regularly, a full 93% read email nearly every day.
There is such a thing as the “Email Savvy [...]

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Ten tips to great website

Want your organization’s website to really shine? Just follow these ten tips:

Content Rules. Only content matters. Content drives traffic. Update your content frequently. Nothing on your Website is more important than content. Nothing.
Your opinions don’t matter. Only those of your visitors. Love feedback. Use every opportunity to get your visitors to tell you want [...]

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