Happy Friday! And Happy Mother’s Day to all of you Moms out there. I’m personally looking forward to French Toast in bed Sunday morning . . . but until then, let’s share some Mixed Links! Two Studies on Generations and Giving The Next Generation of American Giving: A Study on the Contrasting Charitable Habits of…
Next Tuesday, May 11, I’m bringing back Gail Perry and Claire Meyerhoff for an encore presentation of the single most popular webinar we’ve ever hosted at Nonprofit Marketing Guide: Turn Your Fundraising Event into the Best Party in Town. I asked Gail why it’s so critical that nonprofits think about their events not as, well,…
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. The online interview in the tool includes 12 questions, and I asked the 30 or so webinar participants to pick the answers via GoToWebinar polling. What…
Jeff Brooks at Future Fundraising Now is hosting the next Nonprofit Blog Carnival with an April Fool’s theme, so I decided to share with you those times during my week when I am most likely to think, “This is a joke, right?” This happens several times a week, as I review the email that comes…
I’m putting together a new webinar called Creating a Social Media Policy for Your Nonprofit (it’s on Wednesday, April 28 at 1:00 p.m. ET). As I’m thinking about the variations I’m seeing in social media policies, I’m measuring them up against what I’ve been using as the “good nonprofit marketing through social media” yardstick: Does…
One of the best tactical sessions I attended at NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology Conference week before last was “Optimizing Your Site for Search Engine Performance: And We Ain’t Talkin’ Just Keywords.” Here is the slide deck. It’s a mouthful, but it boils down to this one simple idea: Getting Google and other search engines to point…
Last week at the Day of Service at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in Atlanta, I met with Executive Director Megan Anderson and Volunteer Coordinator Courtney Hodges of the Furniture Bank of Metropolitan Atlanta. Each year, the NTEN community helps scores of local nonprofits in the conference’s host city, and this year I signed up to assist…
I’m headed to Atlanta this afternoon for NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology Conference. If you’ll be there too, I hope you’ll say Hi and join me at some of these events. If not, I’ll be sharing some of the “best of” here on the blog and on Twitter (follow me @kivilm). I also encourage you to check…
I just realized I hadn’t shared our webinar line-up with you recently, so here’s what’s coming up in the next few weeks: March 18: On-the-Spot E-Newsletter Makeovers: Get Your E-Newsletter into Better Shape March 23: Getting Your Nonprofit Started with Social Media March 30: Q &A Conference Call: Personality and Positioning with “Brandraising” Author Sarah…
Here’s a bunch of good stuff for nonprofit communicators that I’ve come across in the last month or so . . . A Must-Download Network for Good and Sea Change Strategies have released a free e-book called Homer Simpson for Nonprofits: The Truth About How People Really Think and What It Means for Promoting Your…
Here’s a video review of Sarah Durham’s new book, Brandraising: How Nonprofits Raise Visibility and Money Through Smart Communications. Watch to learn how to get me to buy a copy for you! Kivi Reviews “Brandraising” by Sarah Durham from Kivi Leroux Miller on Vimeo. Kivi Leroux Miller of Nonprofit Marketing Guide.com reviews “Brandraising: How Nonprofits Raise…
This week I started an intensive month-long coaching program for freelance writers who want to serve nonprofit clients. I limited the program to just 10 freelance writers, because I wanted the whole group to be able to interact and for me to be able to answer questions directly and fully. Several communications directors at small…
