The NetRaising Experience
Laura Daily
What’s your NetRaising experience?
I was very excited to learn a new skill. It was also very scary with the audience we have viewing our website to be in charge of something that I’ve never been in charge of before. So all those emotions in there… [and] ..Kurt made that a lot easier, he made that quite a bit less stressful than it could have been. It was so easy to work with him, from the very beginning he was very friendly, he was very helpful in explaining everything, and if I had any problems it was just really easy to get a hold of him and be able to get the support that I needed.
He helped us do some SEO so that we were able to be found by more folks. And actually, with our old website when you Googled Oregon Local Public Health, we didn’t even show up on the first page of Google results. Now when you Google it we’re like the second hit. So that was a good thing for us for just getting out there and having a wider reach. This was something that Kurt brought to us, that was not on my radar and I don’t know if it was on the radar of the other folks at the organization at that time.
I appreciate the flexibility of working with NetRaising. There was a portion of the website that we got rid of at one point, it was a calendar that I have since brought back, and throughout all of that Kurt has gone on that ride with us and was very happy to get rid of it when it wasn’t serving us and was very happy and easy to work with when we wanted to bring it back.
If we didn’t have the ability to have a solid website where we can actually update everything that we need to have access to our support folks, then I don’t know that it would be worth our time. So I think the fact of they’re dedicated to working with small organizations like us is very helpful and makes it possible for us to do this.
I feel like with NetRaising from the very beginning we have known that they are… They’re there for their folks, they’re there to support them and they’re there for the social good as well because I know they’re a certified B Corporation, and I just really appreciate just that transparency that they have and accessibility.
Laura Daily
Program Manager
Oregon Coalition of Local Health Officials