I think a lot of my readers will relate to today’s guest post. Pam Jacobsen shares some of the fun aspects of her multi-task job. ~Kivi Guest Post by Pam Jacobsen, Fort Bend Christian Academy Can you tell by the title how I’m feeling today? It’s 5:10 p.m. on a Friday and I am the only…
Here’s another great question that came into my email box last week . . . “We have a Director of PR as well as myself (Director of Marketing), and we constantly struggle with how the two best work together. For example, if I buy advertising for an event, she says it lessens her ability to…
We often talk about nonprofit personality or brand, and how it’s more than just your logo and color palette. It’s also the style or voice or tone of your communications. But what does that mean exactly? If you were to look it up, you’d find some conflict among writers about the differences, but I like…
Are you measuring how effective your communications are with your members, or chapters, or affiliates? Here’s a question for you that came in to me via email from a national organization that has local chapters across the country . . . “We working hard to improve our communications with our chapters, both enhancing how and…
On Friday, I taught a workshop called Social Media: Your On-Ramp to Future Fundraising at the annual conference of the North Carolina Center for Nonprofits. I’m sharing the deck with you here. Social Media: Your On-Ramp to Future Fundraising from Kivi Leroux Miller While everyone wants to focus on peer-to-peer fundraising in social media, you…
Last Tuesday, I presented a workshop on social media crisis communications for the Virginia Association of Fund Raising Executives and I’m sharing the deck with you here. Crisis Communications in Social Media for Nonprofits from Kivi Leroux Miller We reviewed three different case studies from the American Red Cross, the Humane Society of the United States,…
In two weeks Tom Ahern joins us for a brand-new e-clinic called Donor Newsletters That Raise More Money. Below is a sample of what he will be discussing with nonprofits during the 5+ hours of training and newsletter coaching during the e-clinic. ~Kivi Guest Post by Tom Ahern In the 1990s, a Seattle fundraising shop…
Good Communications = Content + Channel + (Conversation, ideally). You have to have both the message/big ideas and the right communications channels for your communications to work. Great ideas or content without the proper communications channels won’t travel far beyond your desk. Lots of communications channels without real content is just annoying or meaningless noise.…
“Content is King,” they say. While that may be true, “they” don’t mention how hard it is trying to come up with fresh ideas that resonate with your readers. Inspiration can be hard to come by some days, but that’s where our Monthly Nonprofit Writing Prompts come in. Every month we send out an e-newsletter…
A couple of weeks ago, I shared with you what kind of communications I received from twenty different national nonprofits after giving year-end gifts in the last days of 2011. The results were very mixed, with about a 1/3 of the organizations doing what I would consider good online donor retention, 1/3 doing it inconsistently,…
I’m very lucky to have been asked by several people to speak on their panels at the upcoming Nonprofit Technology Conference in Minneapolis in April. This is the one conference I attend every year, and that I recommend all nonprofit marketers attend! But these sessions aren’t on the agenda yet — They need to receive…
Welcome to this month’s edition of the Nonprofit Blog Carnival, where we are looking at trends in nonprofit newsletters. The seemingly simple newsletter, and our reactions to them, aren’t so simple after all as Jen Gonyer-Donohue points out in E-Newsletters: A Riddle, Wrapped in a Mystery, Inside an Enigma. Shari at VolunteerMatch shares the email newsletter…
