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In the third podcast for NPTech Projects, Birgit Pauli-Haack and Jim O’Reilley discuss How to Get Started with Your Organization’s Website.

This episode is not about everything you need to know for all time. Rather we hope it is a straightforward way to understand what is required, how to get it and how to plan for it. You are going to need three basic things: a name for your website, a place to host it, and you will need a web developer.

Throughout this process, remember that vendors can be bought and sold, and developers can go out of business, keep everything in your name. Birgit goes on to tell us about how to avoid service interruption should you choose to change vendors.

Jim then describes his experiences with setting up websites using WordPress and recommends to anyone who did not listen to our CMS episode to do so as to why WordPress has been selected. The bottom line is that he was able to do the setup very quickly and begin to concentrate on content. He reminds us that the posting of content is the primary reason to have a website in the first pla

In the second podcast for NPTech Projects, Birgit Pauli-Haack and Jim O’Reilley discuss Content Management System (CMS).   Initially, Jim makes the point that although NPTechProjects does not sell any of the products mentioned, they will make recommendations backed up by data.

In this episode, Birgit discusses her experiences in evolving from HTML based work environments in the 20th century through server scripted languages to CMS environments in the 21st century and what this means to the owner of the website. In this context, Birgit clarifies the difference of information content to presentation content and what that means to the decision makers in a nonprofit organization.

They then discuss market share, as in how many websites use the programmers still control particular CMS’ as well as how many as opposed to the users.  Based on the data, the discussion veers toward WordPress with the why and how of its use.

The secret sauce for WordPress is first the GNU GPL license meaning it is free, and second is the part of the license which allows developers to create plugins and other features as derivative options included in the license. This has the resulting of a large percentage of developers creating products for the users of WordPress.

Birgit discusses the fact that there are great sites out there which are on proprietary systems and contrasts them with WordPress from a business perspective.

Finally, they discuss the WP4Good Club which is a part of NPTech Projects, and what they bring to the nonprofit organization.

In the first podcast for NPTech Projects, Birgit Pauli-Haack and Jim O’Reilley introduce themselves and the goals of NPTech Projects. They discuss WP4Good Club as well as the plans for future episodes including Content Management Systems, How to get started with your organization’s website, Search Engine Optimization, and Google Analytics.

In this episode, they discuss working with executive directors through the Impact Circles program, as well as workshops that cover such things as Using MailChimp for Email Marketing and utilizing the SEO features of WordPress.

Next Episode:  #2 Content Management Systems

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