Archive for the 'Websites' Category

Some SEO Tips for Fraternities

December 5th, 2006 by jasonpearce

When it comes to search engine optimization, there are both good and evil ways to increase your rankings. The evil ways rarely prevail, so here’s the path to righteousness.
What’s SEO and PageRank?
SEO is marketing is all about appealing to machine algorithms to increase search engine relevance and ultimately web traffic. Like the old brick-and-mortar days [...]

Cross & Crescent Podcast

January 25th, 2006 by jasonpearce

This month, Lambda Chi Alpha added a podcast/audio version of its magazine to the existing lineup of web, RSS, email, and PDF mediums.
Though it is a great accessibility enhancement for our visually impaired members, its a fun feature for the rest of us.
A podcast is basically a subscription to a regularly published audio file. [...]

Chapter News Importance

December 5th, 2005 by jasonpearce

Just how important is the Chapter News department of your magazine? It’s very important, and I’ll show you why.
Two months ago, Lambda Chi Alpha stopped printing and mailing its magazine the Cross & Crescent.
The magazine is now released only online in three formats (XHTML, PDF, RSS) on the second of every month at www.crossandcrescent.com. [...]

Embracing Electronic Distribution

November 2nd, 2005 by jasonpearce

After enjoying 90 years as a printed publication, Lambda Chi Alpha’s Cross & Crescent magazine became an online only publication on November 2, 2005.
Postcard
Today, 115,000 of our US and Canadian members began receiving this postcard informing them of the change (click on the photo to read the message on the back). Obviously, the change was [...]

fraternalrelief.org

August 31st, 2005 by jasonpearce

Two hours ago, some of my co-workers at Lambda Chi Alpha approached me asking if there is anything we can do online to help coordinate Hurricane Katrina relief efforts for Lambda Chis.
Instead of building something for just our office, I went ahead and cranked out a site for all of us:
FraternalRelief.org
It’s just a wiki, but [...]