Elaina Buzzell

Tag: technology

April 1, 2011

Experimenting with Facebook Landing Pages

This was originally posted on NPowering, the blog of NPower Seattle on April 8, 2010. Published on NTEN on November 10, 2010.

NPower's first Facebook Landing PageBack in February, I saw a great post from Mashable on how to build a landing page for Facebook and instantly thought of it as a great way to promote our upcoming fundraising event, Powerful Connections, coming up on April 30th. Here, I will walk you through the basics of setting up a landing page for your organization, and share some things that I learned while setting up ours. In this process, you will essentially be creating a simple Facebook application for your page, and you can do this with some HTML knowledge or a tool like Dreamweaver. Read the rest of this entry »

April 1, 2011

More nonprofits are now eligible for Adobe discounts!

This was originally posted on NPowering, the blog of NPower Seattle on September 2, 2010.

AdobeAdobe has long produced professional software for creating compelling documents and media, but many nonprofits have been stuck by their donation policies and steep costs in the past. Many of those nonprofits are likely to be overjoyed with TechSoup’s news yesterday that  Adobe has just loosened their donation program rules to allow many more nonprofits to access their products at reduced rates. While there are several changes to their policy, one of the most biggest moves is that now more health care organizations are eligible for the discounts. In the past, only health care organizations providing services to people with disabilities were eligible, but now organizations including “nursing homes, rural medical facilities, mental health organizations, and family planning organizations” will be able to receive the discounted software as well. Read the rest of this entry »

April 1, 2011

Update Advice

This was originally posted on NPowering, the blog of NPower Seattle on March 25, 2011. Re-posted here.

There’s a lot of tech news this week regarding updates – Service Pack 1 for Windows 7 has recently been released as well as Internet Explorer 9 and Firefox 4. While we generally recommend keeping software up-to-date, we also recommend that people do some research and planning before going through with updates and upgrades to make sure that you won’t experience negative effects. Here are some guidelines and advice to help you know when to update: Read the rest of this entry »