After her work-life balance session at NTC, Kivi has been talking a lot recently about Cutting the Workaholic Martyr Crap and how you need to stop wearing unused vacation days as a badge of honor. As Kivi says, “Your brain needs a break in order to think strategically and to solve problems creatively. If you…
When I go to the Nonprofit Technology Conference, I try to attend sessions that will be helpful to our readers back home who couldn’t make it to the conference. It’s pretty tough to choose which sessions though since there are always so many good ones going on at the same time. Email is always a…
Here’s the latest installment in our series on the “Day in the Life” of nonprofit communicators, where we ask you to describe your day in your own words. Marketers, Fundraisers, etc – We Need More Days! If you communicate, we want to hear from you. Tell us what you do in a typical day as a nonprofit communications…
Let’s cap off the week with a round of Mixed Links…. A recent report involving 250 nonprofits discusses how emerging technologies affect volunteer programs. John Haydon shares Three Simple Ways to Drive Website Traffic from Facebook. This month’s Nonprofit Blog Carnival is all about how nonprofits can stand out in a crowd of communications. Allyson Kapin at Rad Blog…
Last week Kivi and I were on hand to see the winners of the 2015 DoGooder Awards during the Nonprofit Technology Conference in Austin, TX. Hosted by See3, YouTube and the Nonprofit Technology Network, the DooGooder Awards highlight nonprofits, do-gooders and creators who use video to change the world. Over 150 videos were submitted from around…
As you probably know, Kivi and I are at the awesomest nonprofit conference of them all this week – NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology Conference in Austin, Texas. So grab your cowboy boots or your hipster glasses – it’s time for some Mixed Links NTC-style! Despite talk of a cloning booth available, I was unable to be at…
Having a Facebook Page is pretty much a must these days. Whether anyone sees what you post there is a completely different story. They also aren’t the best for coordinating activities or sharing ideas with a specific group of people. If you need to have a dialogue with a number of people related to your cause, you might want to…
At the start of each month, we send at least 10 writing prompts to the subscribers of our Monthly Nonprofit Writing Prompts E-Newsletter to get them thinking about articles, stories, press releases, blog posts, Facebook updates, letters, and other content for the following month. We send them a month ahead so you’ll have time to think about the ideas…
In case you are brand spanking new to social media, hashtags are words or phrases with the hash symbol (#) in front of them. The hash symbol creates a link and clicking on that hashtag will bring up other posts with that tag. Can you spot the hashtags in this tweet: Fillable Or Simple Button:…
Here’s the latest installment in our series on the “Day in the Life” of nonprofit communicators, where we ask you to describe your day in your own words. We Need More Days! Tell us what you do in a typical day as a nonprofit communications pro. I am the Communications Coordinator for the Disaster Response Services (DRS) program…
Happy Friday! Let’s dive right into some Mixed Links… Third Space Studio and BC/DC Ideas are looking for smaller nonprofits with budgets under $2 million to round out survey data for their 4th annual Individual Donor Benchmark Survey. If you are headed to Austin in a couple of weeks for the Nonprofit Technology Conference, NTEN has Top…
How was your week? Join me for some Valentine’s Mixed Links, won’t you… Tis the season to show some love! Here are 21 Ways to Make Donors Your Valentine. Nonprofit Hub also has How to Show Your Donors You Care. And Pam Grow shares the Valentine’s Day Card she got in her latest edition of…
