Earlier this afternoon, I hosted this month’s free webinar, Helping Your Staff and Board Become Great Nonprofit Marketers. We will add the recording to our Freebies Page this evening if you want to sign up to watch the recording. During the webinar, I talked a lot about giving other staff members and your board the tools…
Today is Valentine’s Day, but it’s also Generosity Day. This video from the Jubilee Project does a great job at showing how your love for your Valentine and your love for the world around you are connected. (Don’t see video? Click over to the blog.) I preach that being generous is one of the Three…
I just sent our Monthly Nonprofit Writing Prompts for March to the 1,704 people who have requested to be on this special mailing list. My goal for the free service is simple: To help you think a little more creatively about your communications, and to avoid the dreaded writer’s block! I promise at least ten ideas…
The apology that Susan G. Komen for the Cure issued on Friday was the first step. The obligatory resignations are next. But if Komen is going to repair the damage done by its behavior last week, they have quite a few more steps in the process. “What should Komen do next?” That’s the question many…
For those of you interested in the ongoing Komen-Planned Parenthood story, I will continue to update yesterday’s post at the bottom of the original content. Today we are moving on with a new topic . . . Our resident design expert, Julia Reich, is back with the latest trends in logos. And if you are embarrassed with…
(Updates to this post can be found at the bottom.) Yesterday afternoon, and continuing into today, I believe we are witnessing the accidental rebranding of what is surely one of America’s biggest and most well-known, and even well-loved, nonprofit brands. Komen for the Cure, it seems, is no longer a breast cancer charity, but a…
I spoke at the AFP Triangle Philanthropy Forecast 2012 yesterday in Raleigh, NC on a panel about communications and media trends for 2012 with Gail Perry, Lu Esposito, and Todd Cohen. My first point was that integrated marketing is essential in 2012. You have to decide your messages and then coordinate how you will use all…
Hating statistics and other cold hard facts, and loving stories instead, is very popular in our field right now. I’m mostly on that bandwagon too. But what if you could use a good statistic to help tell your story? I saw this Austim Speaks PSA with Toni Braxton on TV recently, and it caught my…
Sometimes the work you do is newsworthy on its own and it’s worth the time to pitch your story to reporters. But there’s also another way to get your name in the news: Newsjacking. David Meerman Scott has published a fast read all about the process in Newsjacking: How to Inject your Ideas into a…
Happy Friday! Join me for some Mixed Links . . . Let’s start with some free webinars. Nancy Schwartz is hosting The 4 Keys to Pitch-Perfect Messaging on February 7 at 1:00 p.m. EST. During this webinar, you’ll learn how to create relationships with your supporters through strong messages. Atlas of Giving released a report indicating…
Nancy Schwartz asked, “What are your dreams for nonprofits?” My dream for your nonprofit is that you decide what you are really all about — what makes you different — and that you be that organization, and forget the rest. Consider this excerpt from Peter Bregman’s book, 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get…
After the 10 Changes to Make in 2012 webinar, I received an email from Sherry Kirschenbaum about how her organization uses an editorial calendar to organize ideas for their newsletter and media pitches. I was so impressed with how Sherry was connecting such a diverse number of those “special months” to her organization’s mission and…
