The DIY Website: Using WordPress for Nonprofit Organizations’ Website

Jody Dilday and Angie Albright

Albright and Dilday are both Executive Directors of nonprofit organizations who use WordPress for their nonprofit websites, and they manage those sites themselves. They will discuss the many ways WordPress sites and blogs can be used to enhance the organization’s mission, use blogging to raise cause awareness and money, and connect with the community. They will also discuss strategies for managing website content.

Guest Blogging: How to find the best and avoid the pests.

A presentation on finding good/great guest bloggers. This talk includes:

- What makes a good guest blogger

- Methods of finding guest bloggers

Guest blogging is essential for anyone who is serious about running a blog.

Tom Hapgood and Bret Schulte, The Arkansas Angle, a student-run multimedia magazine.

The Arkansas Angle is a new publication by the Art and Journalism students of Tom Hapgood and Bret Schulte that uses WordPress as a publishing platform. We’ll discuss how we chose WordPress, how we’re using plugins, why we’re no longer using Flash, the relevance of WordPress to journalism students and other details about this online magazine by University of Arkansas students.