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Friday

17Aug

Friday, August 17, 2007 at 01:38PM | by

Hatef Yamini

NPTimes just ran a great article featuring tips from Harry Lynch, CEO of Sanky Commmunications and Paul Habig, director of Internet Services at SankyNet.

Topics covered:

Leveraging demographics
Retaining donors
Harnessing email
Synchronizing media
Acquiring new donors

Here are some highlights to tempt you into reading further...

45 percent of the U.S. is still using dial-up (around 75 percent in rural areas)
Nonprofits typically redesign their Web sites every 3-5 years, whereas in the commercial world it's every 1-2 years. If the coding and HTML are outdated, the search engines won't be able to find your site as well.
Paper direct mail should follow online direct mail, not the other way around.

Click here to read the full article:
http://www.nptimes.com/instantfund/07Aug/IF-070816-1.html

1 Comment | by

Technology

Reader Comments (1)

Hi Hatef - thanks for the link to this very useful article! I have a couple of resources to share, related to Marla Nobles' comments. A great site for SEO is www.bruceclay.com - of course they want you to pay for their services, but they also provide a lot of free information for those who want to do it themselves. And a very easy-to-read book on usability is "Don't Make Me Think! A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability" by Steve Krug.

September 4, 2007 |

Margaux O'Malley

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