Starting from scratch

By nopantsadmin

While I’d redeveloped a number of websites in my time, I’ve never started from nothing before I launched this site last August. This was my process.

Five ways to lose your volunteers

By nopantsadmin

Engaging volunteers sounds like a no-brainer. Someone wants to work – for free – at your organization. But nonprofits are finding that the changing nature of work, volunteer demographics and nonprofit competition are making it difficult for them to run a successful volunteer program.

English, across the zees

By nopantsadmin

Oh, that hurt. I have Americanized my website, swapping esses for zees, swapping licence for license and removing that all-important letter u from color.

Everything you know about curry is wrong

By nopantsadmin

For most of us, the word curry is synonymous with Indian food. We think of them as hot and spicy, and we might recall some of our favorites – like chicken tikka masala. But almost everything we think we know about curry is wrong.

Home is where the head is

By nopantsadmin

They say home is where the heart is but what exactly makes a home? And what is the psychology of what happens to those of us who leave our home in the name of love, career or adventure?