Josh Hallett on Blogs as Event Tools for NPOs
Josh's recommendations in Event Blogs can go far beyond NPOs -- anyone can use blog software as their starting point for creating an active web presence. The only thing I'd add is a wiki for note taking (which I feel is quite different from live blogging - I should probably write up WHY! Here is a snippet:: "Blogs offer a cost-effective solution for non-profits to promote, cover, discuss and wrap-up events
Events often pose smaller non-profits a problem with their limited web site budgets. Some non-profits might have basic content management tools that allow them to add a news item or calendar event, while many others have standard flat HTML pages. Often a new event was not in the 'master web plan' when the site we designed a year or two ago. In these situations an event will receive very limited exposure, if any, on the web site and is often shoe horned into an existing site structure. If a non-profit has additional web funds they will sometimes create a micro-site for the event, but it is often a flat/static page with few updates and no life beyond the event. Blog software can help change this."
events, unconference, blogs, NPtech
posted by Nancy White at 5:55 PM
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I just moved the website I maintain for our Band Booster organization over to WordPress and created a wiki on pbWiki for those of us managing ongoing fundraising projects, policy drafts and other projects we're currently undertaking.
It's amazing (and gratifying) to see the response. Parents are actually subscribing or checking the site regularly for updates and downloads, we've got people who have very little time at all actively collaborating online to help this little organization help our kids.
It's so much easier to work on a wiki than take time out for a face-to-face meeting, and the parents and board LOVE having the ability to update content without having me as the logjam!
I'm getting very excited about how the new tools being rolled out can make a difference when working in our real-life community!
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