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Across large swaths of civil society, even in parts of the developing world, websites are the public face of an organization. The Web is a powerful medium that often disappoints, if only because its potential is so great. Very few websites do what they could to build and leverage relationships with donors, volunteers, and other stakeholders. Many are impaired by common mistakes and most don't achieve clearly defined objectives. Over the course of two weeks and two seminar sessions, we will help you:

• identify and fix your website's most damaging mistakes
• identify and build upon your website's greatest strengths
• get structured feedback from other nonprofit professionals who produce websites
• create your own practical methodology and checklist for website improvement
• develop both short term and long term improvement plans

This seminar, despite being online, will offer collaborative, hands-on analysis of your website, leveraging the insights of both students and instructor. This seminar is right for you if you're looking for practical improvements to your website and a framework for continued betterment.
 

Here are a few related articles by Michael Gilbert:

• Why Web Sites Fail
• Everyday Software: Workshop Webcasting
• Streaming Grantmaker Knowledge: A Procedure for Making a Foundation's Web Site Content Available as RSS
• Nonprofits and Weblogs

This seminar will be taught by Michael C. Gilbert, the author of "Why Web Sites Fail", "Communication Centered Technology Planning, 2nd Edition", and the "Site Analyzer Reports", the Editor of Nonprofit Online News, and the Founding President of the Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network. For more information about Mr. Gilbert, please see his bio.

Our pre-packaged online seminar here consists of two 90 minute sessions.

Live Online Seminars: These are presented at a scheduled date & time, broadcast live, and include live Q&A time with the instructor. Live online seminars presented by The Gilbert Center are open registration seminars, which means that anyone can attend. Please see our calendar for upcoming events. You can also read technical requirements and other basic facts for this seminar delivery option. (Please note that our calendar of live seminars only goes out a couple of months and not all topics will show up there.)

On-Demand Online Seminars: On-demand means you can attend at a time that is most convenient for your schedule. It consists of the recordings of the most recent live presentation, and comes packaged with a 30 minute phone consultation with the instructor so you can ask questions about the seminar materials and how they can best be put to use in your particular situation. You can also read technical requirements and other basic facts for this seminar delivery option. The catalog of seminars available on-demand is listed down the right-hand side of that same page, and also the calendar page. (Please note that not all topics are available yet for on-demand viewing. See the On-Demand Info page for a complete list of current options.)

Private In-House Sessions: If you have a group of people to whom you would like to offer training, please consider our private, in-house seminars. Which means you can hire us to present this and any of the seminars listed on this site, as well as custom sessions, for your group privately; online or in person at your location. Please contact us for more information if you're interested.

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