OK, So You've got a website!

That is not enough, you need to get people to find your website and you should make it easy for them to engage with your organisation/social enterprise on-line.

searchSearch Engine Optimisation

Get your site listed in the search engines.  There is apparently a black art in getting your site noticed by Google et al, but, much of it is common sense.

pound coinsThere can be little doubt that over the next few years funding will be increasingly difficult for many organisations to find. It is likely to be the medium sized organisations that will struggle most and there is pressure for many organisations to collaborate or merge.

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A BBC Hereford & Worcester investigation into county council cuts in spending has discovered Herefordshire Council has to slash its budget by a quarter.

Auto Twitter feed, Google Adsense were added to the WMICT Champions website in October to see if a website could become self financing.

twitterIn November and December I regularly posted content onto the site and had a healthy number of visitors and as the Twitter feed directs people to the page they were interested in and the Google ADsense ads placed adds based on the content it also created a small click through revenue stream.

Get on in school. Get online at home.

Home Access is a government drive which will help low-income families to get access to a computer and the internet to get online at home.

Home Access LogoIf you are a low income family in receipt of certain benefits you could qualify for a grant to buy a computer and/or a minimum of one years' internet access. The programme is aimed at those that need it most and targets families that do not have access to a computer or the internet at home.