I’ll be answering your nonprofit marketing/communications questions live here on the blog tomorrow, Tuesday 5/20/08 at 2:00 p.m. ET. Simply visit the blog homepage and you’ll see the live chat going on. You’ll be able to type in your questions and I’ll answer as many as I can.
Photo by RaeA If you’ve been waiting for me to make the recordings from the Nonprofit Marketing Guide webinar series available, wait no more. The following titles are now all available when you purchase an All-Access Pass. For $97, you’ll get to view all of these webinars and any I add in the next twelve…
I’m going to try something new next week – instead of a weekly webinar, I’ll be hosting live “office hours” on Tuesday, May 20th, from 2:00 – 2:30 p.m. Eastern, right here on my blog. Using a service called CoverItLive, I’ll be taking your questions and answering them in a live chat format. You don’t…
A couple of weeks ago, I spoke at a conference in Nashville for Neighborhood Networks, a HUD program that supports nonprofits who run technology centers in and around public housing projects. The session was on nonprofit marketing, and I gave my talk on nonprofit website basics. On the panel with me was David Zermeno, executive…
In preparation for tomorrow’s webinar on how to write your nonprofit’s stories (registration is open until 1:30 p.m. Eastern on Wednesday 5/14/08), I’ve been updating my list of good storytelling examples on nonprofit websites and thought you’d enjoy reading them too. I mentioned some of these in my earlier post on Five Questions Nonprofits Should…
Michele Martin at The Bamboo Project has posted this week’s Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants. You’ll find posts on everything from using celebrities in your promotions to writing like a human being. Next week the Carnival will be hosted by Rosetta Thurman at Perspectives from the Pipeline. She’d like you to complete this sentence: “It would…
Earlier today I emailed my Nonprofit Marketing Tips newsletter out to subscribers. It’s a free e-newsletter that I send 2-3 times per month, usually with at least two full-length articles and several shorter blurbs. While there is some overlap in topics, the articles in the e-newsletter usually do not appear on the blog and vice-versa.…
It’s been quite some time since I was tagged with a meme, and since this one is from Jeff Brooks, and he just did a webinar for me last week, I am compelled to cooperate. Here is what I am supposed to do: 1. Pick up the nearest book. 2. Open to page 123. 3.…
You’ll find some great Web 2.0 success stories for nonprofits compiled by Rebecca Leaman at Wild Apricot as this week’s edition of the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants. Read stories about UNICEF and A Place to Bark, along with lots of solid advice. Next week the Carnival will be hosted by Michele Martin at The Bamboo…
Volunteering is a significant part of the identity of Generation Y – people in their 20s – because they grew up doing it. Service learning has been fully integrated into many high schools and college-bound teens know that admissions officers love community service. Volunteering is so well ingrained in the Gen Y culture that a…
Lots of studies of interest to nonprofit marketers have been published lately . . . Sea Change Strategies and Convio have released a new report on the “wired wealthy” — people who are giving big online. Get the full report here or read a nice summary on Katya’s blog. Only 40% of these donors thought…
I’m reading “Message Matters: Succeeding at the Crossroads of Mission and Market” by Rebecca K. Leet. I’m about halfway through it, and here are some of the tips that I found most interesting. When creating a message that works, you need to start with the action that you want others to take. Unfortunately, lots of…
