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Monday, March 9, 2009
I’ve seen lots of interest from nonprofits in using video to communicate with supporters about their causes, along with an equal amount of trepidation about how to do it. Cymberly Pierce on her blog, Clever Title, also offers some fast tips on nonprofit video. Enter it in the annual Nonprofit Video Awards by March 26!).
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Friday, July 25, 2008
When people talk about mistakes nonprofits make with their websites, the first thing that comes to mind is usually either no direct donate button from the front page, or an unclear mission statement. Because that's what a nonprofit is: A public trust. Nonprofit mistakes websites transparency communications Contact Information!
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Friday, August 7, 2009
As you may know, I am in the middle of writing the full-length, printed book version of Nonprofit Marketing Guide, to be published in Spring 2010 by Jossey-Bass. Here is the my list of 10 marketing realities for nonprofits, with abridged commentary. Reality 5: Nonprofit communicators are transforming into community organizers.
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Friday, July 24, 2009
Yesterday I taught a webinar called “Content Creation Strategies for Nonprofits: Making the Most of Your Writing, Photos, and More. More than 650 people registered from 46 U.S. Pass this on to your nonprofit friends in Alaska, Delaware, Mississippi and South Dakota - we missed them!) Nonprofits are clearly very interested [.].
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Wednesday, February 3, 2010
It included terms from 2009 such as friend (as a verb—thanks, Facebook); Tweet (good luck not using that one, nonprofiteers); and chillaxin’ (which I’m pretty sure isn’t a word to begin with, but yes, it’s tremendously annoying and disturbingly ubiquitous). Tags: Nonprofit Marketing Quick Tips Consider using workflow or government.
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Sunday, March 21, 2010
Been meaning to get around to promoting your nonprofit's cause through video, have ya? YouTube has a Nonprofit Program with tips and tricks to help you get you started, such as: Reach Out. Tags: promotion nonprofits communications Well, no more excuses for you! Partner Up. Keep It Fresh. Spread Your Message. Be Genuine.
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Monday, June 29, 2009
The UK-based Management Centre recently scored 57 nonprofits on their ability to innovate … a seven step process as conceptualized by the Centre: Ideation — idea generation. Tags: Measuring Up creativity innovation nonprofit management Integration — cross-pollination of ideas. And we thought Americans were Do-ers!
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Wednesday, January 16, 2008
PREDICTIONS Musings about what’s in store for the nonprofit sector. Continued overlap and blurring of lines between socially responsible business and nonprofit enterprise. Explosion in the number of new nonprofit organizations started by retiring baby boomers. The nonprofit sector simply cannot fill the gap. For a while.
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Monday, May 3, 2010
During last week’s webinar on Creating a Social Media Policy for Your Nonprofit , we used the Policy Tool for Social Media to create a rough draft of a policy. What resulted is a crowd-sourced rough draft of a nonprofit social media policy (link to a Word doc for you to download). Here’s what else you get with the Pass.
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Thursday, April 30, 2009
Here’s the April edition of the Nonprofit Blog Carnival. So many nonprofits are looking to the internet as an inexpensive tool for raising money. Jeff Brooks has a good post pointing out some critical mistakes in his post called “How nonprofits fail their donors on the web..
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