Weblog for Blue Utopia http://blueutopia.com/index.php?page=blog 2012-02-22T01:05:53+01:00 text/html 2012-02-21T11:46:01+01:00 http://blueutopia.com/ http://blueutopia.com/index.php?page=blog&full=9 We get asked a lot for our help on building an audience on twitter and facebook. The folks at e-Politics put together a very basic set of rules for campaigns wanting to get started called Twitter 101 How to Influence the Conversation. text/html 2012-02-08T09:56:04+01:00 http://blueutopia.com/ http://blueutopia.com/index.php?page=blog&full=8 Heres a fairly comprehensive and handy social and mobile media technology checklist excerpted from Social Media for Social Good A How-To Guide for Nonprofits. Its broken down into three sections covering the Web Social Media and Mobile. There are some great ideas and tips included many of which are services text/html 2012-02-03T13:21:11+01:00 http://blueutopia.com/ http://blueutopia.com/index.php?page=blog&full=7 The number of low-cost or free web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. Many nonprofit professionals are overwhelmed by the all choices -- and as the Mobile Web and related start-ups continue to grow prepare to be mind-boggled by all the new technology options available to your text/html 2012-01-09T10:08:06+01:00 http://blueutopia.com/ http://blueutopia.com/index.php?page=blog&full=6 The still-troubled economy will loom large over charities in the coming year but simply keeping the lights on wont be the only problem organizations will face. All sorts of nonprofits including deep-pocketed grant makers are likely to struggle with the following issues and their fallout. text/html 2012-01-05T11:11:28+01:00 http://blueutopia.com/ http://blueutopia.com/index.php?page=blog&full=5 Heres a great list of social media recommendations and good advice for nonprofits in 2012 courtesy of our friends at Nonprofit Tech 2.0 text/html 2011-10-18T15:40:54+01:00 http://blueutopia.com/ http://blueutopia.com/index.php?page=blog&full=4 To understand how to optimize your site for search engines lets start with some basics on how a search engine like Google works. This is a very basic description. For more info read Googles SEO Guide. Once your site becomes publically availalbe search engines will automatically find it and evaluate text/html 2011-10-18T15:01:38+01:00 http://blueutopia.com/ http://blueutopia.com/index.php?page=blog&full=3 Online donations are about convenience. Its about offering your supporters an opportunity to contribute to your organization that is quick easy and efficient for them. What you want your online donation system to do then is to complete that transaction -- to enable your donor to donate. Seems pretty basic