Recent tidbits

"The Wired Wealthy" - Great Report!

An in-depth study of mid-level and large online donors from Convio, Sea Change and Edge Research. A must-read for anyone seeking to do online fundraising for social change.

Seth Godin: Respect Earns Attention

A nice blog post from Seth Godin about patience, respect, attention and permission marketing. Great advice for nonprofit communicators.

Surveying The Digital Future

A major study of how people use the internet for civic engagement shows intriguing results.

Creating the Relationship-Centric Organization

A great piece by Paul Hagen on making the leap from "donor databases" to "constituent relationship management."

CAN-SPAM For Nonprofits

Tips for nonprofits to comply with the CAN-SPAM act

Cultivating Engagement From New List Members

MRSS' Eve Fox offers some great -- and counter-intuitive -- advice on how to cultivate new list members.

Scheduling Meetings: Two Tools That Help

MeetingWizard and Meet-o-Matic are two simple, free tools that can help make it easier to schedule meetings.

All Marketers Are Liars

A talk by online marketing guru Seth Godin to Google. Covers permission marketing, ideas as viruses, and marketing as storytelling.

Signing Documents Electronically with EchoSign

Signing documents (like contracts) online can eliminate a lot of paper-shuffling hassle. Here's how we use EchoSign to do it.

Want Better Website Stats? Get Google Analytics!

Google Analytics is one of the best website stats tools out there, and it's totally free. Every organization with a website should sign up for an account today.

A Great Model Privacy Policy

Our friends at Sightline Institute have written a website privacy policy that is a model for grassroots advocacy organizations.

Microsoft Updates Update Process: You Should Update

You should start using Microsoft's new "Microsoft Update" tool to get all Microsoft product updates. Here's why and how.

Free Online Marketing Wisdom from Marketing Sherpa

Marketing Sherpa has released the 2006 Wisdom Report, which contains lots of helpful nuggets of online marketing wisdom.

How To Keep Website Visitors Coming Back?

 

YouSendIt.com: a simple, free solution for sending files that are too big to email

YouSendIt.com allows you to easily send large files to folks without email.

Communications Toolkit for Nonprofits

Cause Communications from Santa Monica, California has recently released their Communications Toolkit for Nonprofits. It's a great resource for nonprofit communication strategy and tactics.

NTEN's 2006 Nonprofit IT Staffing Report

A great report about nonprofit IT staffing practices.

Intro Text: Cut, Keep or Kill?

Jakob Nielsen advises ruthless editing of introductory text.

Resizing Pictures for the Web with Shrinkpictures.com

Shrinkpictures.com offers a handy web-based tool for shrinking large digital pictures down to an appropriate size for use on a website.