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GOT WEB? Enhance Your Non-profit Through Effective Website Design and Management

GOT WEB? Enhance Your Non-profit Through Effective Website Design and Management. Overview. Background Website planning & development process pitfalls measure success Website Post-Launch fresh content upgrade Blogs Strategy, set up & maintain Social Networks listening

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GOT WEB? Enhance Your Non-profit Through Effective Website Design and Management

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  1. GOT WEB? Enhance Your Non-profit Through Effective Website Design and Management

  2. Overview • Background • Website planning & development • process • pitfalls • measure success • Website Post-Launch • fresh content • upgrade • Blogs • Strategy, set up & maintain • Social Networks • listening • benefits to communications strategy

  3. Background

  4. Current

  5. Website Planning

  6. Website Planning • Initial steps: • Gather a team – small equals nimble • Setting the scene - define brand, audience, user personas and/or focus groups • Do your homework – collect existing assets, reviewing sites, educate yourself • Draw your map – formal project definition including objectives, consider budget • Pick a partner – RFP, Proposals/bids, interview candidates, SOW/contract

  7. Website Project Overview Kick-Off Meeting Gather Requirements Gather Digital/Offline Assets Review Strategic Brief Define Design Review Creative Brief Develop Flowchart and Wireframes Approve Creative Comps & Functional Specs Finalize Design Content Development Develop Finalize Technical Specifications Finalize content Development User Acceptance Testing Deploy Exec/Legal approval Launch Site Maintain and Optimize

  8. Potential Pitfalls • Design by committee • Focus on internal goals, not focus on user-centric design • Not engaging the right colleagues • Hire someone’s nephew, little sister • Endless iteration • Vague objectives • Scope creep • Undue management influence

  9. User-centric Web design • Most users don’t really read Web pages. Instead, they scan text for specific pieces of information in a process called information retrieval. With user-centered design (UCD), you can improve the usefulness (relevance) and usability (ease of use) of Web sites by considering information retrieval and other factors.

  10. Best Practices • Dedicate time and resources for project – A to Z • Align site objectives with business goals • Use a structured vendor selection process • Manage vendor effectively • Manage staff and stakeholder expectations • Include measurement • Allow time between soft launch and event-driving traffic • Be open to change • Plan, plan, plan! Proper project planning increases chances of success by anticipating risks and developing strategies to manage them.

  11. Web sites: Never ending cycle • Don’t ever stop at the launch! • Refresh and update content – text, photo, video • Upgrade, upgrade, upgrade

  12. Blogs • Why blog? Communicate Branding Engage in conversations Quick, timely and cheap Marketing & outreach Advocacy

  13. Blog Planning Credit: Nina Simon http://museumtwo.blogspot.com/2007/03/institutional-blogs-different-voices.html

  14. Blog Set Up • Multiple choices tumblr.com Posterous.com Wordpress.com

  15. Wordpress.com

  16. Social Networks • Listening • Engaging • Be strategic in what you select – time constraints

  17. Social Networks

  18. Got Web? Resources • Cmiller’s blog resource (cmiller237.wordpress.com) • Follow Me on Twitter – @CMiller237 • Nonprofit Technology Network (nten.org) • Jakob Nielsen's Website (useit.com) • Beth’s Blog (bethkanter.org) • Nonprofit Tech – content aggregator (nonprofittech.com)

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