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You May Love Your Nonprofit’s Homepage Slider (but it doesn’t love you)
You love your nonprofit’s homepage slider — it looks modern and professional Your designer loves your homepage slider — it lets them show off their high-resolution photos Your community may even love the look of your homepage slider … But it isn’t working for your organization… and we’ll tell you why While homepage sliders look…
Read MoreIs Your Web Developer Holding You Hostage?
I will never forget the sinking feeling I had when I finally logged into the developer dashboard that day. I had recently started at a non-profit organization and they desperately needed the content on their website updated. Why had it not been updated? The contract with their web development firm had recently ended. The firm…
Read MoreThe Trisummit Solutions Manifesto
The TriSummit Manifesto We are a team of non-profit professionals, web developers, private practitioners and entrepreneurs and who became sick and tired of a system that takes advantage of organizations who just wanted a web presence that supports the cause they believe in. We got sick of it so we founded Trisummit Solutions and this…
Read MoreYour Web Developer Hates Your Small Projects (and may try to make them bigger)
Here is a secret your web developer is not going to tell you: They hate the small projects you assign them. When you hit them up with an email asking if they can do something minor to your site they probably get the email when taking a break from a bigger development project they are…
Read MoreOnline Fundraising Lessons Learned from 80s TV Shows
So here is a blast from the past… I was cleaning up my YouTube account and came across one of my favorite videos. This was an Ignite Session I did back in 2014 at Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) in Washington, DC. If you don’t know what an Ignite Session is you can learn more here,…
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