Musings on law, tech, chess & other topics by a geek

The focus of this month’s DC Net^2 Tuesday is focusing on a DC nonprofit, miriam’s kitchen (MK),  fund raising.

Here are some of the suggestions I made:

• Expand you Meta Data: Keywords & Description should be added to the site the Page rank is good but they are not showing up in the right searches
• Use social media on your site: MK has a great flickr account about it is not used on their site, add a widget with thumbnails of recent photos
• Ask occasionally only:  when asking for donations do not ask all the time keep the real content the focus
• Try several ideas and see what sticks, the transational cost of trying things online is low try and try again

Here are some of the best suggestions from other net^2 members:

• Use unique landing pages for different sources of traffic
• email newsletter sign ups should be simple just ask for email
• Share your best practices on related blogs (Sarah’s Idea)
• Short youtube videos on cooking
• talk to local students at local colleges students to look at your stats and help see what is working
• Set deadline on giving campaign and promote the end goal
• Check out neworganizing.com

This was one of the better Net^2 events that I have been to.

PS: open the wifi!!! if you want us to blog and promote cool ideas the venue must have open wifi.

A few weeks ago omw home from work a D.C. freelance photographer, Joshua Yospyn, stopped me to take a photo just north of Dupont Circle here in DC.  A few weeks later he I saw him again and got his card.  The photo is up on his flickr account.  Great shot thanks!

Here is another photo from his most recent work anonymous:

PS These photos are under All Rights Reserved, I still need to mention CC