FREE Event Alert 7/20! The One-Hour Website for Nonprofits: Boostrap Your Next Online Initiative
FREE event alert: on Wednesday July 20th, from 6PM to 8PM I’ll be presenting The One-Hour Website: Bootstrap Your Next Online Initiative with WordPress for 501 Tech NYC, a terrific professional group of people involved in technology and nonprofits.

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I’ve already written a bit about working in a nonprofit that was strapped for resources and technology. Everyone understood that the web was becoming increasingly important, but the funding for technology was a political football that kept getting tossed around while the staff struggled to maintain an overly taxed, hand-coded website.

When you’re in such a situation, you quickly learn that you have two options: do nothing, or do-it-yourself.

I chose the second route, and created a number of very successful and high-trafficked websites for the New Directors/New Films Festival, the New York Film Festival, as well as a fund-raising initiative for the Film Society of Lincoln Center.

What’s more, once I understood how to bootstrap a website with WordPress, I felt empowered to create more initiatives that better served user needs and desires. Every project I made became more sophisticated and more customized.

When I first started creating websites for these initiatives, I’m the first to admit: I didn’t know too much about code or design. I just knew there was a need for (in my case) a website with more visual opportunities, more social connectivity, more flexibility. I was determined to deliver that, even if “it’s not my job,” “I’ve never done this before,” or “I’m not sure what I’m doing.”

I know that there are a lot of people out there in nonprofits who are just like me — they have a tremendous amount of initiative they’d like to apply to online projects, they just don’t know where to start.

So I hope you’ll join me on the 20th — I promise a practical hour that will get you charged up to start creating your own online initiatives with WordPress.

Here’s the description:
['Digital Culture Nyc']
['New York Film Festival', 'WordPress', '501 Tech Nyc', 'Nonprofits']