Author: gregoryheller

I’ve previously written about how organizations can start Tweeting, and last week found a great primer on using Twitter for Activism. The DigiActive Guide to Twitter for Activism is a concise and informative guide that any organization looking to evaluate or deploy a Twitter strategy should read. While it is geared towards activism I think…

This week I came across three interesting articles that deal with non profits, website usability and donations. Taken together, I think they can be useful and instructive to non profit organizations working on developing new websites or optimizing existing websites and communication strategies.

It seems that every year there are more and more sessions at the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC), and it is harder and harder to decide which sessions to attend.

Last week Mashable ran a blog post about the increasing budgets for social media marketing at big businesses. It was based on a report by the Aberdeen Groups covered in more detail on EMarketer.com. The report had two important findings: 63% of best in class businesses surveyed said they would be increasing their social media…

In Developing A Personal Email Management Strategy I discussed the sorting, filtering and processing of the seemingly endless flow of email I receive. Recently, I took the plunge and converted my non work email to IMAP in preparation for converting work email to the same. The goal is to be able to see important direct…

At DrupalCon DC 2009 I co-presented a Panel with Ben Flinklea from Volacci and Greg Knaddison from Growing Venture Solutions. Here is our slide deck from the presentation, and a link to the SEO Presentation video.

For many years now I (and then CivicActions) have been a member of NTEN (The Nonprofit Technology Entrepreneurs Network). Every year NTEN runs the Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) an event that brings together NPTech providers and non profits.

Back in January I posted a blog about my carbon footprint for 2007. With 36 flights spanning nearly 70,000 miles, I had calculate my carbon footprint at a little bit more than 14 tons of CO2, turns out I had some bad numbers in there and overestimated it by maybe 2 or 3 tons.

Drupal Project founder Dries Buytaert’s recent blog post on Contributing Back to Drupal came on the heals of much discussion of the same topic while I was the Lullabot DIWD Seminar. It is not a new conversation, at CivicActions we have been having it for as long as I can remember. The Community Stipend Program…

In this fifth and final article in our series on creating an SEO strategy we will tackle the topic of community. Websites are not like the “field of dreams” — if you build it, they won’t necessarily come. Certainly if you do everything right up to this point: write good content, use appropriate markup and…