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Web Sites Help Direct Mail: 7/18/2008
New research by the NonProfit Times shows that your web site is more important than ever in supporting your direct mail fundraising.
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Striving for an “F” Online: 5/9/2008
Are the most important pages of your web site failing? Q & A to help you decide.
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Online Giving – as ‘easy’ as Online Shopping?: 3/2/2008
Tips to make your donors feel better about giving online. Is online banking the key?
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Web Redesign is a bad idea? Only if there is no strategy.: 8/2/2007
Without a strategy, you spend a lot of time and money without guaranteed success.
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What’s your story – in 3 seconds or less: 2/28/2007
Visit your homepage and count to three. Do you know what your organization does?
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6 Ways the Web Impacts Your Entire Organization: 5/8/2006
Even if you are ignoring your web presence, others are not. It may be that you are losing donations to a competing agency because they are actively using the web.
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Site Search – Website visitors are telling you what they want.: 1/30/2006
A search field is more than a convenient tool for web visitors. It is a window on visitor needs and desires...
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NASCAR ads for a homepage?: 9/15/2005
Is your homepage focused and easy to navigate? Or does it suffer from NASCAR syndrome?
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Looking Ahead: Online Giving: 7/20/2005
The easy part about forecasting online giving so far in the future is that no one will remember this article in five years. I know, Lincoln said that at Gettysburg, but he was wrong.
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Comply with COPPA – a great idea, but not required.: 6/28/2005
I am continually surprised at how many organizations know nothing about the law.
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Case Study: Special Site for World Refugee Day: 6/20/2005

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Tools are great, but a business plan is better.: 4/14/2005
"We need to increase our online presence, so we are looking at some tools to do that. Do you provide tools?"
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Is it too late for charities to start using the internet?: 3/30/2005
Recent data may suggest that the internet market is stale or too expensive for nonprofit newcomers, but NPAdvisors disagrees.
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Internet Strategy - More Important Than Ever!: 2/23/2005
A nonprofit's online presence, internet strategy and technical infrastructure are tested within minutes of the first news story of a natural disaster. Are you ready?
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Shopping vs. Donating Online: 10/19/2004
Online shopping continues to grow, and is becoming a comfortable standardized process for many internet users.
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Online Ethics and Standards: an Annotated Review: 10/18/2004
As nonprofits venture deeper into online marketing, they need to be guided by a set of ethical standards.
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What Language are You Speaking Online? Use your user's words in your articles: 9/22/2004
Last week I was sitting outside, having lunch with a friend. In her perfect Australian accent she made a comment about how bad the "mosie's" are.
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Website Navigation Tool: The Breadcrumb Trail: 1/28/2004
We have thus far published several articles about necessary elements of any website, including error pages and site maps. Another significant aspect of a site is its navigation tool.
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Your Website's Site Map: 12/22/2003
A site map is as exactly as it sounds -- it is an organized map of a website, preferably in textual form.
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Your Website's Error Page: 11/12/2003
An error page, also commonly referred to as a 404 page, is an important aspect of any website -- a page that requires some consideration and attention in its design.
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Planning to Redesign Your Site?: 9/9/2003
"We're thinking about redesigning our web site." We hear it frequently. So what does it mean, and is it a good idea?
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How Well Does Your Web Site Really Work?: 8/26/2003
Does your web site load quickly on all major browsers? Or are you unwittingly frustrating 30% of your potential donors?
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Black on Black is Not a Helpful Web Form: 4/13/2003
Sometimes “great” web programming ideas backfire. To avoid this pitfall, test your site on both Mac OS computers and Windows machines, in both Netscape and Microsoft Internet Explorer. Then check your site on AOL and WebTV.
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The Evolution of Web Site Development: 3/19/2002
There is a natural evolution in web sites that most nonprofits follow. That doesn't mean all nonprofits have to start at the beginning!
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