The March offering for TechTuesday, the monthly romp through the world of nonprofit technology presented by Trish Perkins of HandyCapable Network for members of the Guilford Nonprofit Consortium...and others.

1. WordPress for Nonprofits
Can a website get any easier?

2. Who’s Trish?
• Nonprofit systems
analyst and designer
• Affordable nonprofit
technology consultant
• Trainer—
Google, Salesforce, Offic
e, Video, Social
Networks, WordPress
web sites

3. We do cloud computing solutions

4. Where is your WebSite Pain?
Tell us about your org and your web issues…

5. What do nonprofits WANT?
A website that is:
• Easy to update
• Easy to maintain
• Easy to customize
• Quick learning curve
• Cheap
• Good support network

6. Jason King’s Slides

7. Ten Reasons to Love WordPress

8. Functional Reasons
• Ease of development
• Ease of training staff and volunteers to use it
• Scalable– start small and grow…grow…GROW
• Lives in the cloud: Access it from anywhere
• Accessible for handicapped people
• Different user levels – great for volunteer help
• Lots of developers creating new plug-
ins, because it’s open source

9. Marketing Reasons
• Search Engines can find you
• Need a change? Find a new theme
• A-B testing for outcomes you really want (see
the Google Analytics TechTuesday in April!)

10. Update Regularly
• Give value to your visitors. Develop
relationships.
• Identify your constituents and then identify a
“success point” with each. Plan the path.
• Create an editorial schedule for your “News
and Events” or blog.

11. Local WordPress Sites

12. HandyCapable

13. FaithAction International House

14. Interactive Resource Center

15. Music Academy

16. Greater Kirkwood Community

17. WordPress.COM site

18. Cons

19. • Traditional web developers hate WordPress:
Google “I Hate WordPress” to hear their
reasons.
• Themes are never EXACTLY what you
want, EXACTLY the way you want it to look
• If you understand the code, you don’t like it; if
you don’t, you can’t do anything that requires
coding.

20. Things that are NOT free
• Time to develop the site
• Time to update WordPress and Plug-ins
• Time to train users – or to let users train
themselves

21. Get more info
• WordPress for Dummies – borrow from HCN
• WordPress Codex:
http://codex.wordpress.org/New_To_WordPress_-_Where_to_Start
• Free WordPress Training:
http://freewptraining.com/
• The Complete Guide– used in STOLEN FOR
today’s presentation
http://wpmu.org/wordpress-for-non-profits-the-complete-guide/

22. Contact Us
handycapabletrish@gmail.com
(336) 457-0400
Facebook & everywhere: travelertrish

23. Questions?