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Joomla and Drupal are two of the most heavily used Open Source (free) CMS's on the market. Both come with "one-click" installs in most hosting control panels. Joomla and Drupal are fantastic, but still a bit learning curvish. I think the issue with most non profits is not that the code is hard (WYSIWYG takes care of *most* of that) it is that it
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I am in the camp that content, and what you have as content is 90% of the SEO you will ever need. I have seen some pretty bad sites float to the top of important searches because the content is good. Also, I think your social strategy is more important than your pure SEO strategy (that is make friends, comment, word of mouth it, etc). But that is a
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Mosey: your images would be lost on me. I don't allow images to be displayed by default in my email. I am sure you know this, but you are in the vast minority with this. Almost every email campaign I send out, usually between 15 and 20k emails, only about a handful are "text only" readers, or view the text part of the multi part. The days of PINE
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Fighting for a recipient's attention should not be an issue. If they do not care enough about your organization or it's newletter then they are not someone that you are going to compel to click on a link to your web based newsletter. In other words, if they do not care enough to click on a link, then you are not going to "reach" that person
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If you used Publisher chances are there is a lot of code that will confuse the heck out of most email readers. Remember, just because it looks like a webpage in your email (outlook, yahoo, gmail, etc) does not mean it is a webpage. Most readers do NOT know HTML, at least not CSS style. There is a lowest-common-denominator style you need to pay attention
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It is a very cool tool, however, not sure how much nonprofits can get out of it. It is really most useful for measuring the demographics and localities of a media campaign, something most non profits don't do (or do to the level that the metrics will make it past a decent sample size. Not that a non-profit shouldn't try and be "viral" just most
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I saw a recent survey that showed the average list of the people who responded ot the survey was 450,000 members. That stuck me as incredibly high (but then 85% of the respondents where universities which are not your "common" NP. What s a typical list size. I know, no such thing as typical, but is it usually 100 members per $1000 raised, or 1000 people
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Nonprofit web needs run the gamut. Some want hosting, some want more. While across all non-profits that is true, every non-profit I have worked with have 7 or 8 sections of their website and 4 or 5 of them are almost always the same. Face it most smaller non-profits don't have or want a "tech guy" and wouldn't know how to make a reasonable website
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Do nonprofits want hosting, or more specific non-profit tools. I.e. a CMS for what they actually want to publish as opposed to open web space?
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Depending on what you are doing with the data what you want is a host you can let have multiple domains on (dreamhost.com is recommended). That way you can access the same database and tables from two different websites. As far as dial-up/speed the design (and a database properly indexed) is going to have more to do with speed than the fact you are