Land trusts practicing good land stewardship produce a report each year summarizing stewardship activity and land use for stewarded properties. We’ve seen many methods for gathering data from stewards and producing the final report. Some assemble physical copies of handwritten reports into a binder. Others type up reports in a word processor. Some have built …
Birds and bird habitat are often key beneficiaries of conservation efforts. In some cases, they are the primary objectives. The Cornell Lab and the Land Trust Alliance put together a guide to funding sources for bird-centric land acquisition and conservation efforts: http://www.birds.cornell.edu/landtrust/bird-focused-funding-opportunities/
It is tempting to get lost in the maze of Search Engine Optimization, working hard on catchy headlines and keyword filled content, trying to learn the latest in the SEO algorithm race to game the search engines into bringing you more traffic. And you should pay attention to generating traffic. With limited time and budget, …
We launched The Walden Woods Project’s new website today. Their prior site had a nice historical feel and a lot of useful content. It was showing its age though with a dependency on Flash for the home page, search tools that weren’t working and no friendliness for mobile devices. The new site balances a more …
If you are like most trusts and other nonprofits, you publish some form of calendar or event listing on your website. You probably even promote it through your newsletter and social media channels. But it isn’t getting the traffic it should. It may be a case of going where your audience is being a better …
We’ve created two new plugins to make content editing a little easier. The first is for WordPress sites using Bootstrap based themes or that have had Bootstrap added to them. It adds a button in the Visual Editor that lets you specify destination, label, size, type/color and full-width (or not) then inserts the correct markup …
If your website is based on a content management system like WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, etc., you’ve no doubt been intrigued by a plugin that adds functionality to these systems. Stop. Don’t press install! If you want to try out new plugins to see if they meet your needs, it is really, really important to do …
A new client called this week. Their site had been polluted with spam. There were 2 – 3 links to questionable ads in nearly each of their nearly 500 posts. After doing a backup in case anything went wrong with the cleanup, we added the Wordfence security plugin and scanned the site. We replaced a …
We conservationists have work parties all the time. We get a crew together and we get a project done. Many hands make light work and all that. It’s how we work. When contemplating adding dynamic maps to your website, like the ones Trail Data Manager generates, you need data. GPS data. Lots of it. So …
We’re nearly done moving Trail Data Manager™ into the WordPress admin experience. Soon you will be able to manage properties, trails and stewards and the relationships between them) entirely within WordPress for even easier, more integrated Conservation and Land Trust websites. Some reasons this is a very good thing: Improved search and SEO as all …