Beaconfire Announcements

Get Nonprofits Celebrated at SXSW

When a couple of Beaconfire folks got back from South by Southwest Interactive Festival 2008, we were talking about the minimal representation of nonprofit organizations and pondered, why can’t nonprofits “celebrate the creativity and passion behind the coolest new media technologies” too? Well we put our creative heads together about what we could do about it and came up with, what we think, is a really cool way to showcase some of the ways nonprofits can push the envelope to engage a wider, more active audience online. Now, we just need you to help us make it happen by voting (and commenting) on the SXSW panel picker! See how you can help get us there...

Presenting Multilingual Content

It’s no small task to wrangle a website and its resources in one language - let alone multiples. If you’re taking the time and making the effort to post multilingual content, you’re creating potentially valuable assets for your users around the globe. You want to make sure that the content is represented accurately and is accessible. Read on...

Beaconfire Survey: The New iPhone

Love it or hate it, it's here. The new iPhone. Beaconfire's staff weighs in on whether they'll be buying, upgrading or running in the other direction. Learn more...


Success Story

American Friends Service Committee - To attract a new generation of advocates and donors, Beaconfire created an online film, "Eyes Wide Open," to highlight the human cost of the bloodshed in Iraq. More than a quarter million people watched the movie, 50,000 viewers petitioned Congress to end America's military entanglement – and they have donated more than $120,000 the Quaker peace organization. Read More...

"I am eternally thankful for Beaconfire's assistance with our wonderful new website design."
Jean Morra
The Aspen Institute