Here’s our second video in this week’s series on editorial calendars for nonprofits. Check out yesterday’s video on using Excel and Google Calendars for editorial calendars. When simple spreadsheets and calendars aren’t enough, it’s time to upgrade to a project management tool. Let’s take a look at using Asana for an editorial calendar. (Here’s…
Ready to get organized with an editorial calendar for your nonprofit? This week we’ll show you how to set up editorial calendars in several different formats. Today, we cover the basics in Excel and Google Calendars. (Here’s the video link if you can’t see the player.) Want help setting up your editorial calendar for…
We need to break down the barriers preventing fundraising and marketing staff from cooperating in order to get the best results. The advice to get rid of “silos” is nothing new. But we have some new data in the 2016 Nonprofit Communications Trends Report that adds a few more good reasons why your nonprofit should…
Need some helping making the case for more communications staff? Here’s what we learned from the 2016 Nonprofit Communications Trends Report: Team size grows as budgets grow, surpassing one FTE somewhere between the $500,000 – $1 million mark and three FTE at the $5 – 10 million mark. In 2016, 72% of…
One of my favorite books from last year? Work Simply: Embracing the Power of Your Personal Productivity Style by Carson Tate. I am so excited about this book because it makes so much sense. Whether or not any particular productivity tip will work for you or not depends on your personal productivity style. If you’ve been frustrated…
I just wrapped up our first free webinar of the year on Editorial Calendar How Tos for Nonprofits with about 300 participants. We asked two poll questions that I thought I’d share with you . . . Are nonprofits using an editorial calendar? It’s about 50-50. Half answered yes, and the other half said it…
Is there such a thing as the perfect job? Maybe, maybe not. We hear about some good situations and some bad ones in our Day in the Life series. We also learned a few things in our 2016 Nonprofit Communications Trends Report too. Does size matter? Communications directors at nonprofits with budgets of $5-10 million…
We get questions all the time about the frequency with which nonprofits should be communicating. Of course, the right answer for you depends on many factors, especially your goals, the demographics of the people you are communicating with, and your relationships with those people. Need some averages to start the discussion? Here are the most popular…
Download your copy of the full 2016 Nonprofit Communications Trends Report here! Today we are sharing the second of two infographics for this year’s trends report. (Here’s the first one, on communications channels, frequency and teams.) See below to discover: How many communications directors and coordinators plan to leave their jobs in the next two…
Download your copy of the full 2016 Nonprofit Communications Trends Report here! We’ll be sharing a lot more detail from the report over the next several weeks. Here’s the first of two infographics, including new data on communications team size. Watch for the second one tomorrow, with new data on salaries!
I am usually a dutiful recipe follower, but I’m finally competent enough at baking cookies that I have been freestyling on some recipes lately, including this new one I created this year. It’s a mashup of sorts, inspired by this recipe for Disney’s Cinnamon Glazed Almonds and this recipe for Toffee Almond Sandies. Enjoy! Cinnamon…
In case you missed this great stuff, here are our Top 10 blog posts published in 2015, according to Google Analytics page views: 10. 5 Easy Hashtag Hacks for Nonprofit Marketers by Kerri Karvetski 9. A Great Nonprofit Annual Report in a Fabulous Infographic by Liesl Manone 8. Repeat: 31 Phrases to Use in Email…
