Confused by technology?
May 14th, 2007Arts marketer Jerry Yoshitomi has pointed me in the direction of an invaluable resource: TechSoup - the technology place for non-profits. I signed up for their weekly newsletter ‘By the cup’ (see the top left corner of the TechSoup home page to subscribe), and I’ve just received my first edition, which has prompted me to check out their website in more detail.
Turns out TechSoup is an essential service for helping us to get to grips with technologies - new and established - and how they can be applied to our kinds of businesses. Here’s a few things to get you started:
- an article on analysising website statistics - what you should measure and tools to help you do this
- suggestions in the Technology for Fundraising forum on database tools for managing reservations, donors and sales
- a review of seven blogging tools
- useful, relevant posts from community members on which blogging platform is best.
Topics cover emerging techologies, technologies for fundraising, databases, hardware, web building and such - all from the context of what works for non-profits.


Pleased that you’ve made a comment about TechSoup. It’s a great resource.