Designathon/Codeathon 2.0 – Austin April 14th-15th

Warning – geek posting today. Via whurley and silona, if you are a programmer and want to dig into some fun non profit projects, consider attending the Codeathon in Austin on April 14th and 15th.

Designathon/Codeathon 2.0 — Help build open source web apps for non-profits!

This April, put your stunning design skills to use for charity! Designathon/Codeathon 2.0 is the second in a series of volunteer events based in Austin, Texas to help build usable, accessible, open source web tools for use by the non-profit community.

Full text of the email after the jump.

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Online Giving on the Rise and Email Still Works

Company K Media has a recap of three major non profit benchmark reports.

The full non profit benchmark report is here.

Blogging Tutorial Recommendation – TokyoShoes

Someone I recently met recommended this blogging tutorial on Tokyo Shoes. Pretty cool! Thanks Pamela!

What’s Best for Web Analytics? – Article in CIO

Blatant self promotion warning. CIO today web ran an article with a few quotes from me in it. I think the author, Jennifer LeClaire did a good job of being balanced in her approach on a fairly technical subject.

What’s Best for Web Analytics: Client, Server or Hosted?
By Jennifer LeClaire, March 20, 2007 11:59AM

… The Web analytics industry is moving from visits and pageviews to analytics
that reflect more about what people are paying attention to, according to Ed
Schipul, CEO of the Houston-based Schipul Web marketing company that created
Tendenci — a hosted application designed for management associations.

Schipul says companies need to record "events" that reflect actions. It may
be, for example, that a visitor to your site first clicks to watch a video, then
reads more about the product, and then finally makes contact. All of those
activities may occur on the same page. Enterprise-grade server-side solutions
can offer critical insights. (continued…)

I definitely recommend the full article if you are interested in web analytics options.

Times Square – Takin a break in NYC

Between family, work, tendenci, flickr, blogging, joost and now twitter, I needed a break. MOMA it is.