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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Advotalk: Friendlier, Useable, More Accessible Websites
What does it mean to make your website accessible? Compliant? Just plain easier to use?
Read more »Campaign Websites and Accessibility
Miami Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired, an accessibility advocacy organization, analyzed all the 2020 presidential candidates’ websites, and found that NONE of them were fully accessible. We went through the websites, and found several common issues, many of which are easily remedied.
Read more »Advotalk: Let’s Keep This Private – GDPR, CCPA, and Other Frontiers in Nonprofit Data Privacy
Many US-based nonprofits are still wrapping their heads around data privacy. How should donor, client, and other information be captured? Stored? What counts as an opt-in? Data privacy is a hot topic in governance these days– and it’s not going away. This conversation will unpack GDPR, CCPA, SCA, ePrivacy, and other threads of privacy and …
Read more »One Year In: Three Lessons Marketers Have Learned About the GDPR
I’ve started to see patterns in how the most effective marketing teams are not only surviving the GDPR, but are actually using it to market even more effectively and successfully than they ever had before.
Read more »3 Ways to Avoid the Pitfalls in Agile Marketing
According to the 2018 State of Agile Marketing Report by Kapost and AgileSherpas, just over 36 percent of marketers have adopted some form of agile marketing and half of those who haven’t expect to do so within the next year.
Read more »How to Give Feedback to Your Website Designers and Developers
How do you organize and present your feedback in a way that’s clear, concise, and gives your vendor what they need to do their best work?
Read more »How to Prepare for a Web Project
A web project starts long before the actual kickoff. Even before you secure the budget and go in search of design and development shops, there are several things you can do to get your organization ready to go and set up to have a faster, smoother, more successful experience.
Read more »5 Questions to Ask When Budgeting for your Website in the New Year
Here are five questions you should ask yourself as you pull out your crystal ball and look into next year.
Read more »The Advomatic Team Reflects on Drupalcon and NTC 2018
Two weeks ago, the Advomatic team divided up and went to both Drupalcon in Nashville and the Nonprofit Tech Conference in New Orleans – they happened at the same time this year. (A few of us went to both!) The short story is: We had a great time and met a lot of people and …
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