Update: As of April 30, 2020, the organization that oversees internet domain names has rejected a proposal to transfer management of the .org top-level domain from a nonprofit to a private equity group! Read more. A big change in the … Read more
The Cornershop Blog
Win Your Election with a Quick and Easy Campaign Website
School Board race won with the help of a DemCampaignSite Jackie Goldberg knew she had to do something. She couldn’t just sit back and watch for-profit charter schools take over her beloved public school district — the district she’d helped … Read more
What to do if You Use Google Translate on Your Site
Have you heard the Google Translate news? Avez-vous déjà entendu? Has oído las noticias? Haben Sie schon die Neuigkeit gehört? האם שמעת את החדשות The much-loved and heavily-used Google Translate’s Website Translator plugin is being sunset by Google. This powerful … Read more
What I Learned As a WordCamp Organizer
I recently had the honor of serving as an organizer on the Communications Team for WordCamp Europe 2019 in Berlin, Germany, worked my butt off, and made 3000 new friends. Over the course of 10 months of planning and 3 … Read more
It Takes a Village: Working With Stakeholders to Improve Your Website
Regardless of whether you’re the type of person who likes working with groups or whether you prefer to work on your own, involving stakeholders in your website redesign project can feel like a very daunting puzzle. First, there’s the question … Read more
Planning Images for Your Next Campaign
In the era of Instagram and Pinterest, we know the power that images have to inspire, but planning just the right images can feel intimidating. A high quality image is engaging, hard to resist, and easy to linger on and … Read more
How to Choose a CRM for Your Nonprofit
We’re often asked how to choose a CRM or what our favorite CRM is … but we rarely answer the same way twice! While we do work with a number of Constituent Relationship Management (CRM) tools, it’s close to impossible … Read more
Caring for Content During a Data Migration for Nonprofits
They say “content is king,” but how do we even start when we’re in charge of moving “the king” from one castle to another? We’re experienced in a wide variety of projects including data migration for nonprofits. For our clients, … Read more
How the League of Women Voters Works to Engage Supporters
One of the biggest questions nonprofits ask themselves is “how can I better engage my supporters online?” Even seasoned nonprofits struggle with this question. Our long-time client, the League of Women Voters, is an organization that is almost 100 years … Read more
How to Avoid Weird WordPress Images: Create a Photo Template
If you want to be kind to your blog readers, it’s nice to have a consistent layout on your blog posts (and thumbnail images) so they can more easily take in the information you’re sharing. As a content creator, though, … Read more
2018 Online Fundraising: A Retrospective
The nonprofit community saw a lot of ups and downs in 2018 online fundraising. While the final numbers for 2018 are not out yet, we’ve seen some interesting trends in fundraising over the first three quarters. The first quarter saw … Read more
Where in the world is Cornershop?
Our usually-distributed team is looking forward to another busy conference season, kicking things off with not one, but TWO conferences in Portland this coming March. EN West in Portland, Oregon March 12 Engaging Networks is preparing for their first West … Read more