Today Facebook started rolling out a new featured called promoted posts, a combination of advertising and the news feed. If you’re looking to optimize your news feed or find a better place to spend your advertising money, promoted posts allow you to push any status update to a greater percentage of your users (with a… Read more
Remember Wix? We weren’t a big fan of this content management system when we reviewed it because it was all Flash. But they’ve just released an HTML version of their site builder. Go check it out, and build mobile-ready, iOS-friendly, search-engine-placeable sites! Wix HTML: Get Inspired
Chances are you already have a Google Account. You also may or may not have taken our advice to start syncing your files through the amazing (and innovative) Dropbox (see: “Getting Started With Dropbox.”) Today Google announced their long-rumored Dropbox competitor, Google Drive. Google Drive does what Dropbox does (syncs your files to a web… Read more
Have you ever gotten close to using up the entirety of that Gmail storage space–gigabytes and gigabytes of it–that you were sure you’d never overrun? Or are you already paying Google money every month for extra storage space? There’s finally a solution for you. Lifehacker has discovered a simple trick to create a Google Docs… Read more
Since so much of our work–and personal–lives take place on social networks, it’s more than appropriate for us to be up to date on how to stay secure and manage our privacy on Facebook. Many of us have broad spheres of influence, between family members, other staff, donors, and students, and we should work to… Read more
I had a conversation on Twitter the other day with Jeff Gissing where we discussed how Karani’s mobile friendliness is helpful for when you’re on campus or meeting with a donor. I mentioned that I loved having it up on my phone either before or after a meeting with a donor, and it gave me… Read more
Great news: Karani is now live! You probably know that I (Matt) recently released a web app called Karani, an all-in-one solution for fundraisers to manage their contacts and fundraising. I’ve released some details of the preview in the past, but there’s another great piece of news: Karani is now live! As of last week,… Read more
On his blog last week Brian Barela featured an excellent Thank You video from Charity:Water. This is, of course, a lot better produced than you probably will create (for example, the second camera), but it’s still a great inspiration for making an excellent thank you video. What would it take for you to start creating… Read more
It seems social media and fundraising is the topic du jour (did I use that right? If not, don’t judge me), so we’re pretty lucky to have the slides from an entire 2-hour presentation delivered by Brian Barela about Social Media and Ministry Partner Development (or MPD, the phrase Crusade Cru uses to describe the process… Read more
InterVarsity, the organization I work for, has a web site full of extremely valuable resources, primarily in the form of articles. However, there are a few sections of the site that haven’t upgrade to the organization’s new web site design, and the articles there are formatted painfully poorly. It’s formatted so poorly, in fact, that… Read more
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