Published by Angus on 22 Oct 2010

WiserEarth as nonprofit tool

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NGO staff often ask how they can use WiserEarth to further their mission. So here are four high-impact ways you can get the most out of our community and tool kit. › Continue reading…

Published by Angus on 24 Feb 2010

Do you know what your website is doing?

Web Analytics 2.0

Avinash Kaushik has written an excellent book on how to use free and easy-to-use tools for measuring your website’s performance. Unlike other authors, who are fixated on site visit numbers, Kaushik wants you to develop a well rounded perspective that includes: the voice of your customers, why and how people are actually using your site, and how you are doing versus the competition. His approach will help you gain powerful insights. › Continue reading…

Published by Kerry on 29 Sep 2009

Vote for our Panel Ideas for NTEN’s 2010 Conference

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Help send WiserEarth to Atlanta, Georgia next spring! We’ve entered four panels for the Nonprofit Technology Conference 2010. Please vote for your favorite idea! › Continue reading…

Published by Angus on 11 Sep 2009

WiserEarth is now on Social Actions

WiserEarth is now sharing our information through Social Actions – a web service that gathers events, groups, jobs, and donation opportunities from more than 50 sources. › Continue reading…

Published by Angus on 09 Sep 2009

What network stage is your community?

We’ve written before about how you can view your community as a network. Here we use the ‘network lense’ to show how communities typically evolve and what specific actions you might want to take to get to the next stage. › Continue reading…

Published by Angus on 08 Sep 2009

How to weave a tighter community

All communities can be summed up as people who know each other and do things together. As a general rule, know more people in their community, both they and their communities are more productive. So how do we go about increasing those connections between people? Increasingly, community leaders are turning to ‘Network Weavers’. › Continue reading…

Published by Angus on 03 Sep 2009

Light your Community Path

Community Path

In many online communities, it’s just too difficult to figure out how to contribute – there are too many options and no clear hierarchy of choices. Community managers need to light a single path to show the way. › Continue reading…

Published by Angus on 24 Mar 2009

7 Steps to a Compelling Purpose for your Online Community

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Your community’s purpose is key to recruiting new members, raising funds, and staying on strategy. But too often in the rush to create online communities, we skip over this crucial step. Here are a couple of tips for developing that compelling statement of purpose to get your group off on the right foot. › Continue reading…