WordPress

• Matt Mullenweg: State of the Word 2017
  This is the big one, Matt’s presentation about what WordPress has accomplished in the last year and where we’re going next year. Not too much technical stuff here lots of info about Gutenberg, the new editor. And it was also great to get a shout out for our own do_action_mtl hackathon!

• WordPress 4.9 “Tipton”
  Your friendly PSA, new core update was released next month (along with a 4.9.1 security patch) – make sure your non-profit’s website is all up-to-date.

• The Month in WordPress: November 2017
  And if you want to go a little deeper, WordPress.org has you covered for more WordPress news from last month.

Data

• Does your Nonprofit have a Donor Privacy Policy?
  Ok, let’s start at the beginning – do you need a privacy policy and how do you implement one.

• Data Privacy and the Law: Understand Your Nonprofit’s Legal Obligations
  This one is targeted at us, Canucks, and goes through a few of the laws involved federally and provincially.

• What Data Should You Monitor for Your Nonprofit Website?
  Still related to data but not so much about the data you collect about your donors, this is more about what information (analytics and otherwise) you should be looking at to gain insight into how your website is performing.

• Canada Helps Giving Report 2017
  And while we’re talking about data, make sure you get your hands on this giving report with all sorts of interesting data on how Canadians give.

Tech + Web

• 6 Great Web Design Trends for Non-Profits
  This post is a bit of trends and a bit of best practices, the best of both worlds really.

• Nonprofit Web Design: 6 User-Experience Best Practices
  Making sure your website’s visitors have a positive experience while interacting with your brand online is extremely important and this post will give you at least a few ideas on how you might improve your non-profit’s website.

• Best Practices for your Nonprofit Website
  This is a video recording of a webinar on best practices for non-profits with Carl Alexander, a Montreal WordPress community member and great developer. This discussion is a bit WordPress-heavy but it does apply to more over-reaching truths.

• What Data Should You Monitor for Your Nonprofit Website?
  Still related to data but not so much about the data you collect about your donors, this is more about what information (analytics and otherwise) you should be looking at to gain insight into how your website is performing.

• Why your nonprofit needs a landing page (and how to write a great one)
  Your homepage isn’t the only landing page your site might have, in fact, you might have many landing pages that you use for specific campaigns and purposes. This article will give you some great ideas on how to use landing pages for your non-profit.

Digital Marketing

• SEO For Nonprofits: A Beginners Guide To Digital Marketing Success
  Our friends at Nonprofits Source are back at it with this newest instalment in their Digital Marketing for Nonprofits series. Get ready for a very thorough look at SEO that is a mixture of technical and very accessible steps you can follow.

• SEO Keywords — 3 Tips to Improve Rankings
  Let’s keep delving deeper into SEO – this post is all about how to work with keywords which is just one aspect of SEO but a great tool in your digital toolbelt.

• 10 unique content ideas for your nonprofit’s blog
  Since a blog might be a big part of your digital marketing strategy, here are some interesting topic ideas to bring a bit of variety to your blog content

December is looking a bit sparse as far as webinars and events are concerned, folks are ready to unplug for the holidays so, no events section this time. We’ll see you back here in early January for the next round-up of great non-profit tech links. Hope you all have a magical holiday season!