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CharityChannel members who have years of experience in their field may apply to join a Contributor's Panel. Once accepted to a panel by the panel's editor, the member will work with the editor to determine article topics and to prepare an article that is ready for publication. With tens of thousands of colleagues in the CharityChannel professional community, this is a key opportunity to give back to your profession by sharing your hard-won expertise and wisdom.
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Web Site Personalization: A Fad Gone Bad Contributed by:
Doug RekenthalerSunday, March 03, 2002 (11 years 75 days ago)
Scan today's Internet landscape and you'll notice more and more web sites requesting or, in some cases, requiring a visitor to register with at least a name and password. Fail to surrender this information and you'll be blocked from some areas of the site, the unstated assumption being that you are forbidden from the site's most pertinent information. "Members Only," as it were.
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Venturing Into the Online Wilderness -- Which is Better: Guided Tour or Solo Trekking? Contributed by:
Doug RekenthalerMonday, February 11, 2002 (11 years 95 days ago)
Exhausted by today's myriad of online service and product offerings and disillusioned by the snake-oil promises of those now-forgotten "dot-bombs" that litter the NASDAQ investor wasteland, a number of well-known nonprofit organizations recently have made the unfortunate decision to design, develop, host and manage their own Web sites in an enormously expensive, time-consuming and ultimately disastrous attempt to blaze their own online trails. Prediction: Before these in-house efforts are over, these organizations are going to burn through millions of donor dollars in development, implementation, maintenance and staff costs for systems that could easily be replicated by Application Service Providers (ASP) for pennies on those same dollars.
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Why Content Remains King in the Online World of the NPO Contributed by:
Doug RekenthalerMonday, January 14, 2002 (11 years 123 days ago)
In the halcyon days of America Online, when the Internet was still a fad and e-mail addresses rarely appeared on business cards, newly arrived executive Ted Leonsis (now President of AOL Services) made a point of kicking off every important staff meeting with a reminder that "content is king." You can have all the bells and whistles in the world, Leonsis would remind his young tech-happy charges, but without good content a Web site will never attract and retain an audience. The rest, of course, is history.
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