Charity Technology blogs roundup

Roundup for the week ending 07/03/10

SEO Fundamentals: Moderated Session at SphinnCon

Understand the basics of Search Engine Optimization, a moderated session at SphinnCon Israel.

Social media IS effective for nonprofits and small businesses

Two data sets, two different user groups, same results: Small businesses and nonprofit find social media effective for reaching new customers and strengthening existing relationships. Irrefutable evidence of the power of engagement.

Building a Facebook Fanpage – Part 1 – The Background Info

This is Part I of my guide to creating a Facebook fanpage for nonprofits. We’re going to use a fan page that I recently set up as an example of how to set up a page. So stage one – Register and make it clear what you are about...

Manuals for Refurbishing Computers

Find a series of free "how-to" resources for developing your own computer refurbishment program

New notepad from Apple

An Apple a day may not keep the doctor away, says John Tate.

Getting better connected: the Charity CRM Survey 2010

Some 66 per cent of charities would recommend their supplier to other charities, up from 63 per cent last year, according to Civil Society IT’s third annual Charity CRM Software Survey. For the third year running, Raiser’s Edge from Blackbaud is the most popular specialist package, used by 16 per cent of all charities surveyed.

Jenny Searle on representing IT on the Leonard Cheshire board

Leonard Cheshire Disability vice-chair and IT specialist Jenny Searle talks to Gareth Jones about the charity’s IT plans and her role as an IT expert on the board

Should civil society organisations upgrade to Windows 7?

We asked four experts to give their opinions on Windows 7 and whether organisations should be looking to upgrade.

The trials of getting back online

Roger Chester tells the story of a phone bill audit which had unexpected consequences.

New media whizz: Spring 2010

In the first of a regular new column on new media, Rob Dyson of Whizz Kidz looks at how to measure your success at social networking.

The IT list: healthcare and medical research

Each issue Civil Society IT approaches 15 charities of varying sizes and asks them what software and service providers they use for different tasks. This month’s focus is on healthcare and medical research charities.

Website review: www.rspca.org.uk

Resident web expert Mrudula Kodali runs the rule over the recently redesigned RSPCA site.

Blackbaud Announces March Web Seminars for Nonprofits

Blackbaud is offering a free web seminar series to help nonprofits build strategies for mobilizing, soliciting, and stewarding supporters during and after times of disaster. Blackbaud experts and partners developed the seminars based off of their work with nonprofit customers who responded to the Haiti earthquake. The series, entitled “Lessons Learned from Haiti,” includes five seminars that will take place March through May.

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