If you've been trying to "Like" links or other posts from a nonprofit Facebook page that you are an administrator, you may have experienced the way that Facebook treats those "Likes" as though they come from the page instead of from your personal account. Fortunately the fix is quite simple.

Joomla 2.5 has been released. Congratulations to the entire Joomla community! This is a long-term release and Joomla 1.5 will reach its end of life in April 2012 (see the Joomla development cycle infographic). We are recommending all Joomla sites be upgraded before then. You can download it at Joomla.org.

In doing some research for a potential project, I was exploring what kinds of eAdvocacy options were available to plug in to CiviCRM. Many of the big commercial eAdvocacy tools have big commercial price tags to go with them (and don't integrate directly with CiviCRM besides).

We're behind the ball slightly on this one, but after congratulating the Drupal community, we also need to congratulate the Joomla community for the recent release of Joomla 1.6! Both projects had major releases with major improvements at the start of this year.

From their announcement, here are some of the updates in Joomla 1.6:

Congratulations to the entire Drupal community on today's release of Drupal 7 -- with thousands of contributors it is truly a community achievement! With major improvements in usability, flexibility, and scalability, all in a free and open source package, it's definitely time to check out the latest version! Note that with the release of Drupal 7, Drupal 5 is no longer officially supported.

The Drupal 7 marketing video is below, and you can always learn more about Drupal 7 at drupal.org.

As we enter this new year, it's helpful to look back on some of the things that we learned about SEO last year. Thanks to SEO Moz for putting a bunch of them together in a Christmas-themed video from the last week or two, summarized below. I'm pulling out Blekko for a focus since it has so much potential as a helpful SEO tool.

We were informed of a new study of online giving, released today by Network for Good and TrueSense Marketing. I found the chart for December giving (right) particularly interesting -- is your site ready for the last few days of the month?

You may have heard about yesterday's rather rocky launch of Jumo, a new non-profit online networking space. We've set up a Jumo page to take a look around and it seems the dust is beginning to settle somewhat, although things are still rather patchy. According to the NYT, "[the] idea is to take the principles that helped Mr. [Chris] Hughes organize a network of volunteers [for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign] into a successful political force and apply them to a much broader universe of causes and issues." It's also described as a Yelp for charities: a space for people to connect to the issues and groups that they are interested in and also share those with friends and interact with them via comments, feedback, and donations.

The first question is why you would want to bother making your site mobile friendly. The answer is that most likely your "full blown" site will not be user-friendly for mobile browsers -- they can scale the page down so it fits on the mobile screen, but readability and usability are completely lost. See the screenshot of our website on an Android browser before we made some modifications.

Keeping track of your site statistics is an important part of assessing the success of your online presence. You can see where your visitors are coming from and what they are looking at, which can help as you try to make your site as valuable as possible and measure the success of your SEO goals. Google Analytics is a common solution, but since some non-profits have privacy issues with integrating their sites with the Google Empire I'm also listing some other resources which allow you to retain your own stats on your own server.

Continuing our series of non-profit SEO tips, I encourage you to take a look at your site as it renders in text form, as it is "seen" by Google and other search engines.There are a number of different "SEO browsers" you can experiment with to see which of them is useful for you.

Looking at your stats can give you a pretty good idea of how your visitors are using your site and which content they are finding, but sometimes it would be helpful to know a little more information. Setting up a heat map can help you determine which parts of the page are most prominent and are  the best at attracting clicks.

Our senior designer, Laryn Kragt Bakker, is the featured "Alumni in Design" at the Dordt College AIGA student group site. He discusses his background, CEDC, and his recently published novel, and he shows some sample designs. See the excerpt below, or read the entire thing and view the design samples at DC AIGA.

Many small non-profits are asking questions about whether or how deeply to get involved in social networks and social media. It's important to think it through before jumping in, because it will take a certain amount of resources to do it right and you will want to make sure you can devote them to it before you begin. If you are in this situation, you may find the video embedded below to be helpful in terms of quantifying the extent of social media adoption in broad terms.

If your non-profit has a blog, you may need imagery periodically to illustrate a post. Here are a few resources to help you locate free (or low cost) imagery. (They can potentially also help with other projects, but make sure that you don't use an image just because it is free when you can find another image that would make a campaign or advertisement much more effective).

I wanted to take a moment to highlight a free e-book that will be of interest to some of our non-profit partners.

When a non-profit partner is beginning the process of having their website redesigned, we like to get some specifics about the type of site they are envisioning. Our RFP form is a good first step in the web redesign process and has some introductory questions that get at the same issues, but it is sometimes helpful to answer some slightly more in-depth questions specifically about the look and feel as a separate, secondary exercise.