Today, because I’m feeling lazy as sin, I’m going to put up another short video that shows how our social networking features work. Most of our clients are already including these on their DonationPay pages, but if you’re not and you’d like to, give us a holler! The demo is on the page of one [...]
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Though this will be incredibly familiar material to anyone that’s already run through the Pre-Holiday Donation Page Workout, I thought a quick brush up on some best practices for donation page optimization might be in order. Many of our clients have asked about the most important concepts to keep in mind when designing a successful [...]
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Today we have an awesome guest post from a brilliant developer on the DonationPay team, who also has his own web design and services practice. Johan Genberg, take it away . . . . Designing Websites for Non-Profit’s As a web designer/developer working with non-profits and grassroots organizations, I have probably learned more from [...]
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Okay, folks, it’s September. Every day from now until January is a day you should be thinking about how best to maximize your holiday fundraising season. Even though in most places it still feels like full summer (or worse- sorry, Texas), you should already be making serious efforts to get your donation page and process [...]
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Reading the recent Convio white paper -produced from a round of intensive user testing on the donation pages of seven major domestic non-profits- I realized that it’s already time to talk donation page optimization for the holiday fundraising push. While there are some pretty obvious findings in the Convio report (like, a one page donation [...]
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Detroit is Pretty Awesome, You Guys Well, it’s been a light week for the blog, because I am vacationing (and very successfully, thankyouverymuch) in Detroit, to help ring in my best friends brand new masters degree in graphic design. Since I’ve already written a bit on the topic of web design this week, I thought, [...]
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Take charge of your sites potential This is one of those weeks where I’m feeling like the creative well is dry, so I’ll be directing you today to a couple fascinating articles to help you develop your website further. These 25 tips on how to improve your website are quite general, perhaps just the teeniest [...]
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Beth Kanter Freaking RULES So, I feel I’ve been quite explicit about this matter: social networking is good, very good, for non-profits. The Twittering, the Facebooking, the what-have-you. . . all these activities can be incredibly fortuitous for your organization, I think you should get on it, like, yesterday, blah blah blah. You’ve heard this [...]
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Happy Monday, people! Hope everyone had a fabulously restorative weekend. I’m feeling kinda chatterboxy today, so here’s another long one. When you’re starting up a NPO, a small business or taking an existing business online, one of the most stressful aspects of your transition\startup can be finding a web designer. Its hard enough to manage [...]
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