Five Mistakes Many Charities Make on Their Web Sites, Plus More: Tuesday’s Blog Roundup
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
August 18, 2009 | Read Time: 1 minute
- Steve MacLaughlin, a consultant at the technology firm Blackbaud, outlines five common mistakes found on nonprofit groups’ Web sites on Connections.
- Ryan Tate, a writer for the blog Gawker raises concerns about MSNBC’s purchase yesterday of EveryBlock, a journalism project supported by a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
- Beth Kanter, a technology consultant to charities, offers a look at some of the proposed sessions on nonprofit organizations at the forthcoming SXSW Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas. Among our favorite titles: “Can Double Clicking Save the World?”
- Michael Bear Kleinman kicks off a series of posts on the best and worst aspects of working for international groups with a write-up about CARE. Readers said among the best things about CARE were the organization’s commitment to social justice and autonomy provided to workers; the worst things included bureaucracy and too little focus on the charity’s programs.
