It’s a holiday weekend here in the States. Let’s celebrate with some Mixed Links… This free webinar from VolunteerPro starts at 1 p.m. Eastern today – True Independence: Time Management Hacks & Tools for Volunteer Coordinators. Time to freak out about algorithm changes from Facebook again. See Facebook to Change News Feed to Focus on Friends and Family: Here’s…
I wrote about alt-text a few years ago, but based on the email newsletters submitted without any alt-text during our recent Feedback and Fine-Tuning Session, some of you need a reminder… What is alt-text? Alt image text or alternative image text is the text that shows up when someone can’t view the image due to…
Happy Friday, good people out there doing good work! Thank you for making the world a better place. Join me for some Mixed Links… Nancy Schwartz looked at the Right Responses to Orlando Tragedy. Mazarine Treyz shares 4 things you must do when talking with a critic of your nonprofit. Hear what different leaders have to…
Tomorrow, June 16th at 1 p.m. Eastern (10 a.m. Pacific), Tom Ahern, one of the world’s top authorities on “raising more money from the very same donors,” will join us for his popular 90-minute webinar, Marketing Bequests: The Art of Asking for That Final Gift. Recordings available if you can’t attend live, but you have to…
Email deliverability measures how successful an email is at making it into a recipient’s inbox. EveryAction just released their annual Email Deliverability Report which answers the question, “How much is spam costing your nonprofit?” Turns out the answer to that question is, “a lot!” When you send an email, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) use your “sender…
Kivi met Cynamon at the Create Good Conference this year and asked her to share about making the change from the corporate world to a nonprofit communications director position. ~Kristina Guest Post by Cynamon Frierson In January 2016, I dove into nonprofit work as the Communications and Marketing Manager for the Lung Cancer Initiative of…
Good Friday afternoon to you, my friends! Let’s wind down with some Mixed Links… See a great example of impact reporting in Non-profit Grades Itself on Performance. Check out these 50 Social Media Marketing Influencers to Follow. Twitter is planning on upping their character count limit for tweets. Find out How Twitter’s Big Shift Affects Marketers. Not…
I don’t know about y’all, but I am ready for this week to be OVER! Let’s have some Mixed Links… Sarah Dawley at Hootsuite talks about Social Media Crisis Management: How to Prepare and Execute a Plan. Having a lot of social media followers is great, but getting them to donate would be pretty awesome…
Are you just breaking even (or losing money) with your donor newsletter? That’s a pretty common trait among donor newsletters, but it’s not the idea of the donor newsletter that’s wrong – it’s how you’re approaching it that’s wrong. Is your donor newsletter longer than 4 pages? Are you sending it as a self-mailer? Did…
Happy Friday! Let’s celebrate with some Mixed Links… CauseVox has started a new podcast about online fundraising for nonprofit leaders, fundraisers, and marketers. Big Duck has a new, cost-effective way to measure how you are perceived by the public – the Brandraising Benchmark. Looking for a job in fundraising? Here are 5 Common Fundraising Resume Mistakes. Charity…
Jennifer Vander Molen is the Manager of Communications at The Colossian Forum and a participant in our Mentoring Program. Today she shares her organization’s process of creating a new tagline. ~Kristina Guest Post by Jennifer Vander Molen of The Colossian Forum Never in my wildest dreams did I think I’d sing the praises of something like criteria. Iced…
Did everyone have a good week? Let’s wrap it up with some Mixed Links… Next Friday, May 27th is the last day to send your submissions for this month’s Nonprofit Blog Carnival. Craig Linton at Fundraising Detective blog is hosting, and the theme is “Leadership in Fundraising: the best or worst boss you ever had. What did you…
