http://community.npowerseattle.org/patricks Technology, Tips, and NPower Seattle Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:30:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Whoo hooo! Great news from the folks at Vertical Response today! One of the things that we've found administratively complicated was that your mail credits for VerticalResponse were connected to your Salesforce.com login - so I might have a $100 credit, use $10 - but then my colleague Evan ... http://community.npowerseattle.org/patricks/software/shared-credits-in-vertical-response/ TechSoup is a great resource for nonprofits - they have great forums, articles, advice, conferences and more. And they broker software at enormous discounts. June 30 is a deadline for many of their programs - so if you need software - get your order in soon! ... http://community.npowerseattle.org/patricks/software/tech-soup-deadline/ It's easy to assume (at least for me) that most if not all of my nonprofit customers have been able to acquire a nice broadband connection. So I was surprised (but shouldn't have been!) when one of my customers wanted to know what the bandwidth usage would be like if ... http://community.npowerseattle.org/patricks/salesforce/how-much-bandwidth-does-salesforce-use/ We've been customizing Salesforce.com for nonprofits for more than a year now - we've helped enough nonprofit's customize, migrate data, integrate with payment tools, Vertical Response and more - and we have just enough information from all of those projects to begin to see what happens AFTER we're done. As most ... http://community.npowerseattle.org/patricks/salesforce/adopting-and-adapting-to-salesforce/ A tip of the hat to my brother Frank for sending along this article from Slate regarding how people are reading (or, perhaps more importantly, NOT reading) on the web. This article is well worth the read - and while it is about reading on the web - there ... http://community.npowerseattle.org/patricks/website/lazy-readers-and-your-nonprofit/ If you send bulk email to solicit donations, find volunteers, to keep your stakeholders up to date regarding how your agency is meeting your mission - then you should take a few minutes to review the update the Federal Trade Commission's Can Spam Act. The Can-Spam act is a ... http://community.npowerseattle.org/patricks/uncategorized/update-to-can-spam-act/ The folks at NTEN have turned out a survey regarding how nonprofits are using Content Management Systems. Since NPower Seattle uses Plone - I was delighted to see that Plone achieved high marks in Quality, Support, Usability and more. You can download the entire study from the NTEN ... http://community.npowerseattle.org/patricks/website/nten-cms-satisfaction-survey/ It's easy to always be sure that we know what we know, right? A lot of the time, what we know actually IS true - and sometimes - we walk around with something that we "know" that isn't true anymore, or maybe wasn't true, ever. I remember when one of ... http://community.npowerseattle.org/patricks/uncategorized/test-your-data-assumptions/ A lot, it turns out - your designer can make choices in the design phase that can significantly reduce the ease in which search engines can find your site. Search Engine Optimization is important -both during the design phase of your project AND after your site has launched. During ... http://community.npowerseattle.org/patricks/website/what-should-designers-know-about-search-engines/ The team at ONE/NW has done it again - a brief one page set of instructions that tell you what you need to know to prepare effective email alerts. It will take 5 minutes to read, and you should. To get you started, here's the first rule: Cut The ... http://community.npowerseattle.org/patricks/uncategorized/sending-effective-email-alerts/