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WordPress Update Recommendation for NFN4Good members

June 20, 2011

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This spring discussion with walk-in clinic attendees, have helped us, with the recommendation for WordPress Updates. Note: As you all have your own installation instance of WordPress, you are quite autonomous in how you would like to handle updates on your site. Below is just a recommendation. Major Updates: Example: Current version is 3.1.3. A [...]

Embed the Rest of the World – Embed.ly Plugin

March 30, 2011

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For those of you that use Twitter a bit, you might have found that the new Twitter includes some great media views in their streams. On a different site, I have collected quite a few of those, just to make sure that when I use a third party tool to post files and videos (or [...]

Florida Academy Alumni Site Goes Live

March 15, 2011

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Bob Levin, record keeper and historian of the Florida Military Academy, (closed in 1955), has spent a decade reporting on reunions, and on the life and death of Academy attendees. During the last few months, he learned how to keep the records updated on the web site via WordPress on www.FloridaMilitaryAcademyAlumni.org The new WordPress site [...]

Alliance Francaise of Naples with New Website!

March 15, 2011

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In our ongoing series of success stories about non-profits transitioning from NFN Storyboard to a self-hosted WordPress site, I want to mention the Alliance Francaise of Naples website, which was converted and is maintained by Gene Jenkins. He did a wonderful job arranging the vast amount of photo albums in the WordPress Gallery and was [...]

Your WordPress Site and Printing

March 15, 2011

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Thanks to the folks at Sandollars of Naples, we looked at the various options available, so your visitors can print some of the information from your website. Use Browser Print Feature The first option is the native browser printing features. IE, Firefox or Safari always allow you to print information off of the web. If [...]

How to turn off site-wide comments?

March 15, 2011

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Between walk-in clinics, I answer WordPress questions via e-mail. And last week, Bill Coakley, WordPress advocate and mentor to three organizations in transition, asked me the question: “How can we turn of the leave reply option on all pages?”. There is one place that controls the behavior of your site regarding comments and trackbacks. Comments [...]

Digital Morning Interactive Tool

February 24, 2011

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Courtesy of ExactTarget To learn more about Social Media Marketing visit ExactTarget.com/SFF

Subscriber Engagement Half-Life by @mailchimp

February 22, 2011

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It’s a never-ending story. Stay relevant alone won’t keep your readers to slightly disappear. Click rates drop even from most active subscribers Amplify’d from blog.mailchimp.com After about 4 months, your average click rate for your average email subscriber drops to less than 1%. We could talk about ways to keep people engaged longer, like sending [...]

February NFN4Good Classes

January 30, 2011

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This month it’s all about WordPress for our current members. We assist in the day-to-day operation of the web site and the growing demand for updated sites. Feb 15, 11 Online Event: Introduction to NFN4Good Program 03:00 - 04:00 PMWalk-through NFN4Good programs for future and current NFN4Good members Feb 17, 11 NFN4Good: WordPress Walk-in Clinic 09:30 [...]

One Year Anniversary – DPI-SIG Photographers for NonProfits

January 29, 2011

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By Laura DePamphilis Coordinator, Photography for Non-profits dpi-npphoto@naples.net We were very surprised by the number of requests for photography services that we received from not-for-profit organizations in Collier and Lee Counties from the moment the program was announced by the Naples Free Net back in February 2011. Organizations like Ave Maria University, St. Matthews House, the Naples [...]