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And for that I think we all owe a debt of thanks to the blogging platform Posterous , which launched in July 2008. I’ve been truly impressed, and, if I hadn’t gone through all the time and expense of setting up my Selfish Giving blog on Wordpress, I would be posting on a Posterous platform today. I liked Posterous so much I used it as the platform to launch the blog for my nonprofit and have continued to be impressed. Posterous will post that too. MORE
Don’t be over-anxious to fill up your “dead” space in your letters, brochures, posters, ads, websites, emails or other communication devices. This ad for Volkswagen was (and still is) one of the greatest ads of all time. It was simple and powerful. MORE
Can you use a cheaper paper to print your posters or invitations? So in your small development office you’re running an event, but suddenly you need a poster, a banner, a postcard, or an invitation. Is the boss going to approve you going to a graphic designer, getting a quote, showing the mockups to her, and then paying someone $1K to $10K to create a poster for you? You need the poster NOW, not in a week or two, and you have no budget for this. MORE
Today, let’s talk surprise… Take a look at the poster above, which I saw at the Santa Fe Farmer’s Market last month: Ask me why I love volunteering in prison. MORE
That when you read an email or letter, or scanned a website or poster, you responded immediately and strongly to the words that you connected with, and not at all to those that didn’t. Even before you ever imagined you’d be a nonprofit marketer or fundraiser, I bet you knew it was all about the words, a.k.a. the messages. MORE
Then it’s back to work and time to get moving on some brochures for our upcoming appeal, some posters for events or some social media advertisements, and some banners for our website. Carina Johnson. MORE
campaign when you view the poster through an iOS or Android device running the Blippar App , the image ‘leaps-out’ at you in a simple 3D form and you see, overlaid on the poster, buttons that you can use to interact with the ad. To give you an idea of the resulting experience, you can see the original poster (left) and the ‘augmented’ poster (right) below (as viewed on my iPhone using the Blippar App). MORE
When I first started, I wasn’t aware of this until a patron or two let me have it for not having posters on the coffee shop bulletin board. We recently asked you to share your advice for new communications directors, and we heard from 25 of you. MORE
That is exactly what the posters want you to do. MORE
What color did Honey Boo Boo choose for her lemonade stand poster? In a recent episode of TLC's "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo" (oh yes, we went there ), Honey Boo Boo* (real name: Alana) decides the family should create a lemonade stand to raise money for an upcoming beauty pageant. You might be surprised, but this popular pageant princess can actually teach nonprofits a few things about fundraising – no lemons required. Have Personality. MORE
Bonus: The immediacy of this suicide prevention poster at our local train station motivates those not on the brink to consider the issue, even though it’s something we’d all rather avoid considering. Tags: Case Studies planning nonprofit marketing postering MORE
Using brochures, posters, and a short video, this campaign aimed to inspire candid conversation between college-aged kids and their parents regarding family medical history. MORE
Get office supplies – sharpies, poster paper, white board, notepads, laptops, chargers, coffee, tea, etc. I LOVE goal-setting – and then making an action plan to CRUSH my goals – and the New Year is one of the best times to do it! MORE
Posterous is blogging VIA your e-mail address(es). To get your own Posterous blog simply send an e-mail to post@posterous.com. Tags: blogging posterous e-mail marketing I'm contradicting myself again but I just can't help myself from EVANGELIZING about this one. MORE
In exchange for a like, the poster would donate a dollar. Source: Mashable File this under the bizarre - and also under something things I had no clue existed: People looking for their doppelgänger in museums. What's a doppelgänger ? I asked the same thing. MORE
Havel, who would later become the first president of the Czech Republic, in the essay writes a reflection on the mind of a greengrocer who, as instructed, puts up a poster “among the onions and carrots” that reads: “Workers of the World Unite!” The poster is displayed partly out of habit, partly because everyone else does it, and partly out of fear of the consequences for not following the rules. Or do you live within your truth? MORE
Likewise the National 4-H Council has 110 years-worth of posters and the like commissioned from the best graphic artists of the day. Between 1936 and 1941 the WPA commissioned at least 35,000 poster designs, although only a fraction of that was for the National Park Service. MORE
I was driving to the mall the other day and noticed a large poster for Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation in the window of Payless Shoe Source, which sells pink ribbon brooches, wristbands and charms to benefit Komen.Later when I was online checking my email I got a notice from Overstock.com listing a number of pink items for sale supporting The Breast Cancer Research Foundation.I got home. Komen Sanyo Payless Shoe Source MORE
Glogster lets you create interactive “posters&# using various bits of pre-made and user-generated content—video, photos, music, text, graphics, etc. In a matter of about 15 minutes, I whipped up two super-simple cause posters about the need for youth development opportunities. MORE
At this point, I like to present them with a photo of a poster that I took in my daughter’s 4th grade classroom. Nonprofits – it’s about time that I provide some tough love and real talk about a controversial, divisive issue facing our nation: Facebook Fundraisers. MORE
Using Kivi’s example videos, we decided to use poster board and markers to have staff write messages of thanks. Emily Roush-Bobolz. Thanksgiving may be next week, but year-end is a great time to thank your supporters. MORE
That they often just want what they want (that new poster, by the end of the week) or don’t let you know about changes in focus or new programs till shortly before launch. One of the many joys of working with you face-to-face via keynotes and workshops is learning what works for you. MORE
Chances are, every American who's ever been in public or school library has seen their posters, which feature images of the celebrities of the day encouraging kids to read.Currently RIF is doing an. Fly With US. MORE
Hang signs, posters or banners of bequest donors who are no longer alive along with a message inspiring others to consider a similar lasting gift. Have an announcer point out who among the attendees is already in the Legacy Society (ask permission first). MORE
With this insight, we have pursued a wide mixture of media types to place our advertisements for the spay/neuter clinic we launched in February: Facebook, Google, newspaper, radio, posters, etc. See the five posters here. MORE
Pull together a few eye-catching flyers, posters, and handouts that your participants can download directly from the toolkit. Guest blogger Rob Wu is CEO of CauseVox, a crowdfunding and peer-to-peer fundraising platform used by nonprofits to create fundraising websites. MORE
Hang signs, posters or banners of bequest donors who are no longer alive along with a message inspiring others to consider a similar lasting gift. Have an announcer point out who among the attendees is already in the Legacy Society (ask permission first). MORE
Copyblogger created a poster with 10 Steps to Becoming a Better Writer , but it’s probably not what you want to hear. The Hound. Auburn, AL Good afternoon! (Or Or morning or evening depending on when you are reading this.) MORE
All too often, news release headlines are long and dry, like a college textbook, when they should be short and pack a punch, like a movie poster. Flickr Creative Commons photo by Jeff Eaton Many nonprofit communicators have a similar complaint about the news media. MORE
Once we brought the personas to life, they were featured in print materials—including a deck of cards, posters, and a flip book—designed to keep Make-A-Wish’s audience top of mind for its communications team. . MORE
The three-word tagline (think-create-engage) will appear on all future advertising, posters, and online notices for events in dance, art, theatre, music, and other programs of the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. Good branding is hard. MORE
A poster ad that asked me to “ pledge to be car free on Car Free Day September 22. &# Let’s walk through this: Moving Through the Stages of Change. Have you ever forgotten to do something? You’re not alone. MORE
Invisible Children’s (IC) Kony 2012 is the poster child of nonprofit video storytelling. It got attention (50 million YouTube views in the first week of release) and generated some level of understanding of the atrocities of Joseph Kony, the Ugandan rebel leader, and his LRA army. MORE
Sure, they give out posters, wristbands, etc to help raise awareness of the cause. They give out PDFs so people can make their own posters too, if they want to. KONY2012. Everyone’s talking about KONY2012. MORE
Some people are embedding these codes in their posters. Joe Waters , Director of Cause Marketing for Boston Medical Center, showed such a poster in a post on cause marketing during Halloween. See the QR code in his poster? Someone walking down the street comes to the poster. MORE
Remember those posters in your high school hallway that said, “SEX! Guest bloggerMargot Friedman, principal of Dupont Circle Communications, conducts trainings on writing and placing opinion editorials. Please like Op Ed Talk with Margot on Facebook to share op-ed tips and strategies. MORE
Be sure to post photos of your mission in action, videos from your latest fundraising event and other images such as your latest campaign poster or advertisement to draw in more supporters and increase the odds your content will be shared. So you've got your nonprofit Google+ page up and running. now what? Take advantage of the unique features of this social platform to connect with your supporters, encourage community advocacy and add interactivity to your outreach. MORE
A couple of Irish creatives decided to enlist others of their ilk and design some posters to illustrate the worst client feedback they’d received on their work. They started selling the posters (proceeds to charity) and were swamped by orders. Here are the posters. Here’s some Friday fun for our agency/consultant readers. MORE
If you aren’t able to include an in-person testimonial, bring this story to life in other ways, like video, posters and multimedia presentations. Events are a powerful way to grow your community, engage with donors and give supporters a positive experience with your organization. Of course, nonprofit fundraising events can also help you raise more money for your cause. MORE
The kids who wasted their $30 (but not a fun evening with friends hanging up a few posters) might be the only notable losers thus far, but what about those Ugandans who would actually benefit from serious collaboration on serious problems? Youth cover some of the evening. MORE
Signage, posters, banners. In previous posts, we’ve shared the most common marketing and communications goals , strategies , and objectives for nonprofits. Today, let’s complete the list by talking about tactics. Tactics are the tools you use to pursue the objectives associated with your strategy. Tactics include both communications channels like email, PR and social media, as well as specific types of content like storytelling or infographics. MORE
In short they are the little square maze-like icons that you may see on press ads, posters, or product packaging that smartphone users who have downloded a relevant App can use to open a related webpage simply by snapping a photo of the code. MORE
Or how Nike is providing exclusive video from their posters. Hold onto your hats! I just read a Trendwatching report about the not-too-distant future when Search transcends Google and spreads to everyday objects. MORE
No posters at events. Today Seth Godin writes , “Repetition increases the chance that you get heard.” MORE
Poster Related Topics ImpactMax
JUNE 3, 2009
Glogster lets you create interactive “posters&# using various bits of pre-made and user-generated content—video, photos, music, text, graphics, etc. In a matter of about 15 minutes, I whipped up two super-simple cause posters about the need for youth development opportunities.
Selfish Giving
NOVEMBER 18, 2009
And for that I think we all owe a debt of thanks to the blogging platform Posterous , which launched in July 2008. I’ve been truly impressed, and, if I hadn’t gone through all the time and expense of setting up my Selfish Giving blog on Wordpress, I would be posting on a Posterous platform today. I liked Posterous so much I used it as the platform to launch the blog for my nonprofit and have continued to be impressed. Posterous will post that too.
Getting Attention
SEPTEMBER 22, 2010
Bonus: The immediacy of this suicide prevention poster at our local train station motivates those not on the brink to consider the issue, even though it’s something we’d all rather avoid considering. Tags: Case Studies planning nonprofit marketing postering
Marketing for Nonprofits
JULY 7, 2008
Posterous is blogging VIA your e-mail address(es). To get your own Posterous blog simply send an e-mail to post@posterous.com. Tags: blogging posterous e-mail marketing I'm contradicting myself again but I just can't help myself from EVANGELIZING about this one.
The Agitator
MAY 30, 2013
A couple of Irish creatives decided to enlist others of their ilk and design some posters to illustrate the worst client feedback they’d received on their work. They started selling the posters (proceeds to charity) and were swamped by orders. Here are the posters. Here’s some Friday fun for our agency/consultant readers.
Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog
MAY 17, 2019
Copyblogger created a poster with 10 Steps to Becoming a Better Writer , but it’s probably not what you want to hear. The Hound. Auburn, AL Good afternoon! (Or Or morning or evening depending on when you are reading this.)
Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog
JANUARY 3, 2019
Signage, posters, banners. In previous posts, we’ve shared the most common marketing and communications goals , strategies , and objectives for nonprofits. Today, let’s complete the list by talking about tactics. Tactics are the tools you use to pursue the objectives associated with your strategy. Tactics include both communications channels like email, PR and social media, as well as specific types of content like storytelling or infographics.
Getting Attention
OCTOBER 13, 2015
Today, let’s talk surprise… Take a look at the poster above, which I saw at the Santa Fe Farmer’s Market last month: Ask me why I love volunteering in prison.
Non Profit Marketing 360
AUGUST 31, 2011
The three-word tagline (think-create-engage) will appear on all future advertising, posters, and online notices for events in dance, art, theatre, music, and other programs of the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. Good branding is hard.
Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog
SEPTEMBER 26, 2017
When I first started, I wasn’t aware of this until a patron or two let me have it for not having posters on the coffee shop bulletin board. We recently asked you to share your advice for new communications directors, and we heard from 25 of you.
Getting Attention
MAY 29, 2012
That they often just want what they want (that new poster, by the end of the week) or don’t let you know about changes in focus or new programs till shortly before launch. One of the many joys of working with you face-to-face via keynotes and workshops is learning what works for you.
Cause Related Marketing
NOVEMBER 16, 2011
Likewise the National 4-H Council has 110 years-worth of posters and the like commissioned from the best graphic artists of the day. Between 1936 and 1941 the WPA commissioned at least 35,000 poster designs, although only a fraction of that was for the National Park Service.
Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog
JANUARY 24, 2019
All too often, news release headlines are long and dry, like a college textbook, when they should be short and pack a punch, like a movie poster. Flickr Creative Commons photo by Jeff Eaton Many nonprofit communicators have a similar complaint about the news media.
iMarketSmart
JULY 25, 2014
Hang signs, posters or banners of bequest donors who are no longer alive along with a message inspiring others to consider a similar lasting gift. Have an announcer point out who among the attendees is already in the Legacy Society (ask permission first).
Fundraising Coach
NOVEMBER 9, 2010
Some people are embedding these codes in their posters. Joe Waters , Director of Cause Marketing for Boston Medical Center, showed such a poster in a post on cause marketing during Halloween. See the QR code in his poster? Someone walking down the street comes to the poster.
Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog
NOVEMBER 14, 2018
Using Kivi’s example videos, we decided to use poster board and markers to have staff write messages of thanks. Emily Roush-Bobolz. Thanksgiving may be next week, but year-end is a great time to thank your supporters.
Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog
OCTOBER 17, 2016
Then it’s back to work and time to get moving on some brochures for our upcoming appeal, some posters for events or some social media advertisements, and some banners for our website. Carina Johnson.
J Campbell Social Marketing
NOVEMBER 2, 2018
At this point, I like to present them with a photo of a poster that I took in my daughter’s 4th grade classroom. Nonprofits – it’s about time that I provide some tough love and real talk about a controversial, divisive issue facing our nation: Facebook Fundraisers.
Cause Related Marketing
APRIL 1, 2008
Chances are, every American who's ever been in public or school library has seen their posters, which feature images of the celebrities of the day encouraging kids to read.Currently RIF is doing an. Fly With US.
Public Sector Marketing 2.0
NOVEMBER 20, 2014
That is exactly what the posters want you to do.
Fundraising 123
NOVEMBER 2, 2012
What color did Honey Boo Boo choose for her lemonade stand poster? In a recent episode of TLC's "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo" (oh yes, we went there ), Honey Boo Boo* (real name: Alana) decides the family should create a lemonade stand to raise money for an upcoming beauty pageant. You might be surprised, but this popular pageant princess can actually teach nonprofits a few things about fundraising – no lemons required. Have Personality.
Getting Attention
APRIL 5, 2012
Invisible Children’s (IC) Kony 2012 is the poster child of nonprofit video storytelling. It got attention (50 million YouTube views in the first week of release) and generated some level of understanding of the atrocities of Joseph Kony, the Ugandan rebel leader, and his LRA army.
Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog
AUGUST 28, 2014
Using brochures, posters, and a short video, this campaign aimed to inspire candid conversation between college-aged kids and their parents regarding family medical history.
Getting Attention
OCTOBER 14, 2015
Pull together a few eye-catching flyers, posters, and handouts that your participants can download directly from the toolkit. Guest blogger Rob Wu is CEO of CauseVox, a crowdfunding and peer-to-peer fundraising platform used by nonprofits to create fundraising websites.
iMarketSmart
MAY 13, 2016
Don’t be over-anxious to fill up your “dead” space in your letters, brochures, posters, ads, websites, emails or other communication devices. This ad for Volkswagen was (and still is) one of the greatest ads of all time. It was simple and powerful.
Getting Attention
FEBRUARY 16, 2012
Remember those posters in your high school hallway that said, “SEX! Guest bloggerMargot Friedman, principal of Dupont Circle Communications, conducts trainings on writing and placing opinion editorials. Please like Op Ed Talk with Margot on Facebook to share op-ed tips and strategies.
J Campbell Social Marketing
JANUARY 3, 2019
Get office supplies – sharpies, poster paper, white board, notepads, laptops, chargers, coffee, tea, etc. I LOVE goal-setting – and then making an action plan to CRUSH my goals – and the New Year is one of the best times to do it!
Giving in a Digital World
SEPTEMBER 9, 2013
In short they are the little square maze-like icons that you may see on press ads, posters, or product packaging that smartphone users who have downloded a relevant App can use to open a related webpage simply by snapping a photo of the code.
Wild Woman Fundraising
MARCH 10, 2010
Can you use a cheaper paper to print your posters or invitations? So in your small development office you’re running an event, but suddenly you need a poster, a banner, a postcard, or an invitation. Is the boss going to approve you going to a graphic designer, getting a quote, showing the mockups to her, and then paying someone $1K to $10K to create a poster for you? You need the poster NOW, not in a week or two, and you have no budget for this.
Giving in a Digital World
JANUARY 12, 2012
campaign when you view the poster through an iOS or Android device running the Blippar App , the image ‘leaps-out’ at you in a simple 3D form and you see, overlaid on the poster, buttons that you can use to interact with the ad. To give you an idea of the resulting experience, you can see the original poster (left) and the ‘augmented’ poster (right) below (as viewed on my iPhone using the Blippar App).
iMarketSmart
APRIL 19, 2013
No posters at events. Today Seth Godin writes , “Repetition increases the chance that you get heard.”
Selfish Giving
DECEMBER 29, 2017
In exchange for a like, the poster would donate a dollar. Source: Mashable File this under the bizarre - and also under something things I had no clue existed: People looking for their doppelgänger in museums. What's a doppelgänger ? I asked the same thing.
Wild Woman Fundraising
FEBRUARY 16, 2012
Havel, who would later become the first president of the Czech Republic, in the essay writes a reflection on the mind of a greengrocer who, as instructed, puts up a poster “among the onions and carrots” that reads: “Workers of the World Unite!” The poster is displayed partly out of habit, partly because everyone else does it, and partly out of fear of the consequences for not following the rules. Or do you live within your truth?
Getting Attention
MARCH 12, 2013
That when you read an email or letter, or scanned a website or poster, you responded immediately and strongly to the words that you connected with, and not at all to those that didn’t. Even before you ever imagined you’d be a nonprofit marketer or fundraiser, I bet you knew it was all about the words, a.k.a. the messages.
Wild Woman Fundraising
MARCH 19, 2012
Sure, they give out posters, wristbands, etc to help raise awareness of the cause. They give out PDFs so people can make their own posters too, if they want to. KONY2012. Everyone’s talking about KONY2012.
Cause Related Marketing
OCTOBER 18, 2007
I was driving to the mall the other day and noticed a large poster for Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation in the window of Payless Shoe Source, which sells pink ribbon brooches, wristbands and charms to benefit Komen.Later when I was online checking my email I got a notice from Overstock.com listing a number of pink items for sale supporting The Breast Cancer Research Foundation.I got home. Komen Sanyo Payless Shoe Source
Fundraising 123
AUGUST 2, 2012
Be sure to post photos of your mission in action, videos from your latest fundraising event and other images such as your latest campaign poster or advertisement to draw in more supporters and increase the odds your content will be shared. So you've got your nonprofit Google+ page up and running. now what? Take advantage of the unique features of this social platform to connect with your supporters, encourage community advocacy and add interactivity to your outreach.
SocialButterfly
AUGUST 31, 2010
A poster ad that asked me to “ pledge to be car free on Car Free Day September 22. &# Let’s walk through this: Moving Through the Stages of Change. Have you ever forgotten to do something? You’re not alone.
ImpactMax
FEBRUARY 7, 2012
Or how Nike is providing exclusive video from their posters. Hold onto your hats! I just read a Trendwatching report about the not-too-distant future when Search transcends Google and spreads to everyday objects.
Getting Attention
JANUARY 6, 2016
Once we brought the personas to life, they were featured in print materials—including a deck of cards, posters, and a flip book—designed to keep Make-A-Wish’s audience top of mind for its communications team. .
Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog
APRIL 6, 2011
With this insight, we have pursued a wide mixture of media types to place our advertisements for the spay/neuter clinic we launched in February: Facebook, Google, newspaper, radio, posters, etc. See the five posters here.
Non Profit Marketing 360
APRIL 23, 2012
The kids who wasted their $30 (but not a fun evening with friends hanging up a few posters) might be the only notable losers thus far, but what about those Ugandans who would actually benefit from serious collaboration on serious problems? Youth cover some of the evening.
Fundraising 123
MARCH 21, 2013
If you aren’t able to include an in-person testimonial, bring this story to life in other ways, like video, posters and multimedia presentations. Events are a powerful way to grow your community, engage with donors and give supporters a positive experience with your organization. Of course, nonprofit fundraising events can also help you raise more money for your cause.
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