I’m heading out tomorrow for a week at the beach, but here are some great mixed links for you before I go. And actually, I’ll have a post or two queued up to publish while I’m out (I love that about WordPress) — including one on where to put your keywords so both people and…
Photo by Nataliej on Flickr If you live in the eight states or seven Canadian provinces/territories below (or know someone who works for a nonprofit and does), read on. I’m extending the deal I mentioned last week through the end of August, to give all of you summer vacationers time to get back in the…
Michelle Murrain at Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology has posted this week’s edition of the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants on the worst mistakes nonprofits can make with their websites. Check it out! What’s Hot and What’s Not? FYI, the Carnival will no longer publish weekly, but will now appear on the 1st and…
The biggest mistake that a nonprofit can make with its website is to use it as an old-fashioned brochure, where you immediately hit the visitor with your long, jargon-filled mission statement, right at the top or smack in the middle of the home page, followed by bulleted lists of “projects” or “services.” Why is this…
I came across HelpaReporterOut.com last week and it’s an email list that I highly recommend you subscribe to. This is what happens: Reporters from all around the U.S., including those who work for major media outlets and freelancers who write for just about every publication under the sun, send their needs for sources and interviews…
Photo by kevindooley on Flickr The nonprofit blogerati have been weighing in lately about how nonprofits are bad, bad, bad for looking at social networking as a way to market their organizations. And “communications” seems to have become a dirty word too. Here are a few samples: Online Social Networks are Not Mailing Lists by…
“Conversation in the Clouds” by Swamibu on Flickr The Chronicle of Philanthropy hosted a live chat earlier this week with Beth Kanter (Beth’s Blog) and Jonathon Coleman (The Nature Conservancy) called “Building Your Online Presence on a Tight Budget.” Beth and Jonathon are two of my favorite social media experts, so I took a few…
Nancy Schwartz has just released the list of winners of the 2008 Nonprofit Tagline Award Competition. Watch for her full report on nonprofit taglines, coming in September. 2008 Award Winners Arts & Culture: Where Actors Find Their Space -NYC Theatre Spaces This clearinghouse for NYC rehearsal and performance spaces uses a double entendre to go…
Wondering what nonprofit books you should be reading this summer? Skip on over to the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants at Sea Change Strategies for a good list. Next week the Carnival will be hosted by Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Tech.
Yesterday I wrote about how you can use thank you notes to set yourself apart from the competition, because lots of nonprofits (1) don’t do thank you notes at all, (2) don’t do them very well, or (3) overlook easy opportunities to touch their donors’ hearts. Here’s another story for you about the power of…
After many years of living in the San Francisco Bay Area and Washington DC, my husband and I moved back to his hometown of Lexington, North Carolina in 2001. Living in a small town in rural county has given me an entirely new appreciation for the complexities involved in nonprofit management, fundraising, and marketing. We…
This week’s Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants is up at Solidariti. Thanks to Priscilla for hosting while all of America took a long weekend for Independence Day! And now it’s off to the beach . . . Next week’s host, Mark Rovner at Sea Change Strategies, wants to know what summer reads you recommend for nonprofit…
