Internet and Web

You've likely heard of Web sites such as Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn. These types of tools, collectively known as social networking sites, allow individuals (and sometimes organizations) to create online profiles, discover others who share their interests, and create an online network of contacts and supporters.

By Brett Bonfield

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How usable is your website? Do your visitors find what they need? What kind of experience do they have? Will they come back again? You can answer these questions by carrying out user testing on your site and you can do it on a budget.

User testing involves getting together some typical members of your audience and asking them to carry out tasks on your website whilst you observe. Watching how they get on, and listening to what they say, will give you valuable insights as to how you can improve your site.

By: Yann Toledano
August 25, 2008
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What do your constituents think about your programs and services? What kinds of activities are your donors likely to fund? Should your organization initiate a new program?

Rather than resort to using telepathic powers or mind reading, an online survey is a powerful research tool that can deliver the feedback you need. Paper-based surveys are often too costly and time-consuming to administer, but online surveys make it easy for any organization to get feedback on the cheap.

 

Photo editing solutions to fit your needs and your organization's budget

A picture is worth a thousand words, right? So of course you want to include pictures in your materials, whether they’re newsletters, posters, or your organization's Web site. Thanks to the ubiquity of digital cameras, that's never been easier to do.

 

Practical recommendations for minimizing legal risk in your organization’s emails

This content was adapted from a Red Earth Software white paper

Email is an essential business tool that not many organizations can do without. However, after several high-profile lawsuits with multimillion dollar penalties concerning the contents of emails in the corporate sector, nonprofit organizations, too, are increasingly aware that simply by using email, they may be exposing themselves to a number of legal threats. 

By Andrew Cohen

Successful online communities require more than a software package. In this article, we outline the strategies and features that can help you build online message boards, social networks, or other conversation based sites that become vibrant, useful communities.

This article is courtesy of Idealware, which provides candid information to help nonprofits choose effective software. For more articles and reviews, go to www.idealware.org.

These days, an organisation can create an online community site in minutes. But creating an actual online community takes much longer.

By Eric Leland, April 2008

A map can be worth a thousand words. If you're looking for ways to create maps or to display geographic data, there are a number of software package that can help, from free ones to complex and powerful ones. This article, part of our A Few Good Tools series, provides a summary of the software that is used and liked by the Idealware community. They may not be the very best of their kind, but they have worked well for us. Perhaps they will also work for you.

The term ‘broadband’ is widely used but often an explanation of what it actually means is hard to find. Currently there are several technologies that are given the term ‘broadband’ but they are quite different in terms of speed and the method they are connected to homes and businesses throughout Australia.

These days there are a huge range of services and providers on the market including bundling your phone and internet services. The term ‘naked’ has made its way into the market and basically it means using you phone line for data only and not using it for standard voice services. This then means that you use the internet to make phone calls (Voice over internet protocol) but we’ll cover that in another article.

So let’s break down the most common connections that are currently on offer from internet service providers (ISP’s) in Australia from slowest to fastest connections and examine some of the key features to look for in an internet service provider...

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Choosing a Content Management System can be frustrating and overwhelming. With so many choices and so little time to research all the options, many of us rely heavily on the recommendations of our peers to cut through the noise and provide some insight. This is why NTEN is proud to present the results of our first CMS Satisfaction Survey.