My look at: ‘Five essential rules for a new website’ from #MCC12

Posted on June 19, 2012 by James Howe • 0 Comments
  1. Here’s another example of my event tweeting from My Charity Connects 2012.
  2. This session was on the 5 essential rules for building a website. It was presented by Eli Alston and Hari Kant.
  3. eli_alston
    Getting ready to talk about 5 essential rules for building a website! #mcc12

    Eli Alston
    Tue, Jun 12 2012 10:21:18

  4. Communic8nHowe
    Essentials for a new website session lead by @eli_alston and Hari Kant from Althuis #mcc12

    James Howe
    Tue, Jun 12 2012 10:52:33

  5. Communic8nHowe
    Essentials for a new website session lead by @eli_alston and Hari Kant from Althuis #mcc12

    James Howe
    Tue, Jun 12 2012 10:52:33

  6. Communic8nHowe
    Alston: Tip 1: Map the visitor journey #mcc12

    James Howe
    Tue, Jun 12 2012 10:54:34

  7. Communic8nHowe
    Alston: create a journey map for your website - a graphical way to show how a visitor moves through your website #mcc12 #nptech

    James Howe
    Tue, Jun 12 2012 11:03:08

  8. Communic8nHowe
    Alston: More common now for people to enter an internal page than from its home page #mcc12 #nptech

    James Howe
    Tue, Jun 12 2012 11:11:13

  9. Communic8nHowe
    Kant: Website needs emotional design to turn them into fanatics so they tell others #mcc12 #nptech

    James Howe
    Tue, Jun 12 2012 11:12:35

  10. hurriednotes
    Immanuel, modernized. RT @Communic8nHowe: Kant: Website needs emotional design to turn them into fanatics so they tell others #mcc12 #nptech

    uɐǝS
    Tue, Jun 12 2012 11:14:32

  11. Communic8nHowe
    Kant: Making website emotional is the new element and difficult to achieve #mcc12 #nptech

    James Howe
    Tue, Jun 12 2012 11:13:39

  12. Communic8nHowe
    Kant: Personality is the platform for emotion. Need meaningful, heartfelt content like blogs #mcc12 #nptech

    James Howe
    Tue, Jun 12 2012 11:14:45

  13. Communic8nHowe
    Kant: Website needs to be personal and interactive. Tag content. Multiple newsletters. Landing pages for target audiences. #mcc12 #nptech

    James Howe
    Tue, Jun 12 2012 11:20:18

  14. Communic8nHowe
    Kant: Advanced personalization of website based on the visitor profile #mcc12 #nptech

    James Howe
    Tue, Jun 12 2012 11:22:39

  15. Communic8nHowe
    Kant: A blog post eliminates need to figure out where something belongs on website. Not the same need for organization #mcc12 #nptech

    James Howe
    Tue, Jun 12 2012 11:24:09

  16. Communic8nHowe
    Kant: https://Change.org petiton can help create emotion like one to Crayola to set up recycling program #mcc12 #nptech

    James Howe
    Tue, Jun 12 2012 11:25:37

  17. Communic8nHowe
    Kant: Engineers without Borders Canada issues a failure report #mcc12 #nptech

    James Howe
    Tue, Jun 12 2012 11:29:05

  18. Communic8nHowe
    Alston: What an org wants on home pg is different from what a visitor wants (which tends to be more difficult to deliver) #mcc12

    James Howe
    Tue, Jun 12 2012 11:37:31

  19. Communic8nHowe
    Alston: What can you automate on your website that visitors would like to do? ? #mcc12 #nptech

    James Howe
    Tue, Jun 12 2012 11:38:48

  20. Communic8nHowe
    Alston: Keep web forms as simple and easy as you can #mcc12 #nptech

    James Howe
    Tue, Jun 12 2012 11:41:48

  21. Communic8nHowe
    Alston: Kiva has a simple website design that delivers a positive user experience #mcc12

    James Howe
    Tue, Jun 12 2012 11:46:26

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    Alston: Website usability more important than aesthetics #mcc12 #nptech

    James Howe
    Tue, Jun 12 2012 11:47:19

  23. Communic8nHowe
    Kant: Feeding America website let’s visitors put in zip code and read local stories #mcc12 #nptech

    James Howe
    Tue, Jun 12 2012 11:49:51

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    Kant: Do you have expertise to create website in-house? Need to be constantly updating website #mcc12 #nptech

    James Howe
    Tue, Jun 12 2012 11:54:51

  25. Communic8nHowe
    Kant: No matter how your website is built, you don’t want to have to go to anybody for your day to day updates. #mcc12 #nptech

    James Howe
    Tue, Jun 12 2012 12:00:30

  26. Communic8nHowe
    Kant: chart on which org should use which method to build their website #mcc12 #nptech https://lockerz.com/s/216548972

    James Howe
    Tue, Jun 12 2012 12:03:35

  27. Communic8nHowe
    Alston: You can no longer develop website in isolation. Nothing is perfect. You need to continually improve. #mcc12 #nptech

    James Howe
    Tue, Jun 12 2012 12:05:02

  28. Communic8nHowe
    Alston’s approach is similar to what I did to create a new website for the @YMCAsofCandKW #mcc12

    James Howe
    Tue, Jun 12 2012 12:06:48

  29. Communic8nHowe
    Kant: 5 things you can do over the next week to improve your website. #mcc12 #nptech https://lockerz.com/s/216550282

    James Howe
    Tue, Jun 12 2012 12:09:57

  30. Hari Kant and Eli Elston are with Altius 
  31. If you are considering a website redesign, I recommend that you take a look at my overview of a session that I attended at the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference.
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