You were just days, or weeks, away from launching your organization’s new website — the one you spent months reorganizing, redesigning, rewriting — when crisis hit. Now it’s tough to tell: do you launch the website even though it feels like your celebration will be swept away in more pressing news? Or do you wait …
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What must your website convey right now?
With COVID-19 dominating the news and our lives, we simply cannot go about business as usual. Your nonprofit doesn’t need to be in the healthcare sector to feel the pressure to translate programs and services, events, or volunteer coordination to an online experience. Given that your website is the first place people are turning to …
Read more »Adapting your organization’s website during a crisis
An organization’s website is the first place people look for information, connection, and support – especially now. Here are a few recent examples and lessons learned. Help people find what they need fast. If you have regularly updated news or information to share with your audiences, add a special announcement bar at the top of …
Read more »We’ve got your back: planning for Drupal 7 end-of-life
On June 24, 2020 Drupal.org announced that Drupal 7’s end of life has been extended until November 2022 because of the impact of COVID-19 on budgets and capacity. This article still remains relevant– but please note that the dates have been pushed back a year. If you have a Drupal 7 website, you might …
Read more »Should your nonprofit switch its CMS?
Your nonprofit’s content management system was probably set up to meet your organization’s needs whenever your website was last built or updated. But changing something as critical as your CMS is scary. Should you abandon the “devil you know?” What if your new CMS is just as limiting, but in ways you can’t yet anticipate? …
Read more »Why CMOs are the new CTOs
In the past ten years—or even the past five—marketers have gained access to a wealth of new tools. You used to need to be a tech giant like Google or Facebook to do technology-centered, data-driven marketing. Now, all you need is a small team (and the right partners, of course).
So here’s the big question: Has your marketing department kept up with the changes?
Read more »Advotalk: Nonprofit Communications Engine
The Nonprofit Communications Engine, Sarah Durham’s new book, helps nonprofit communicators and leaders to leverage communications in order to advance their mission. In this conversation, Sarah Durham will define what “success” means for nonprofit communications regardless of mission or size, and unpack the six core elements necessary to achieve it. This invitation-only conversation with …
Read more »Planning for Drupal 8 end-of-life — It’s nothing like Drupal 7
You may have read our previous articles about how to plan for Drupal 6 or Drupal 7 End-of-Life. The important thing to know is that the Drupal 8 End-of-Life is nothing like those. In fact, “End of Life” is completely the wrong idea. Instead, it’s more like one of those spa treatments where you get …
Read more »Podcast: Should your nonprofit be worried about GDPR and online privacy?
Ochen Kaylan, Senior Developer at Advomatic and attorney, is passionate about online privacy. In a recent podcast with our sister agency, Big Duck, he discusses how to store and manage your donors’ and clients’ information, when enough information is enough, and how your own information is being used.
Read more »Who Really Owns Your Nonprofit’s Website?
The internet used to feel like the wild west. Websites sprung up like homesteads, built by an enterprising range of people using all sorts of source code. If you worked in the nonprofit sector in the 1990s, the odds are good that your organization built its first site in a proprietary system using custom-built code …
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