Welcome to another round of Mixed Links! We’ve got some great social media and communications posts today. This post by Kari Saratovsky not only sheds some light on the recent rise in Pinterest, but also shares some great infographics on Millennials. Check out The Millennial Story, Told By Infographic(s). Think Facebook was confusing before? Beth Kanter…
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…
As I’ve said before, presidential campaigns are great for nonprofit marketers and fundraisers because they give us a sneak peek into how we’ll be engaging our supporters and motivating them to volunteer and donate in the years to come. The current edition of Newsweek has a very interesting description of what the Obama campaign is…
Getting back into the swing of things after the holidays is tough. Let’s have some Mixed Links. We get a lot of questions about project management so I thought I would share one of our readers’ suggestions. Dana Wilson recommends a tool called One Page Project Manager. It lets you track any project on a single…
Every good report these days must have an infographic, so here’s ours for the 2012 Nonprofit Communications Trends Report! Feel free to repost and otherwise share far and wide. Nearly 1,300 nonprofits participated in the survey for the report. We’ve also made separate graphics for each of the five chunks of data below, if you…
What are your biggest nonprofit content marketing challenges? Marketing Profs and the Content Marketing Institute recently released a survey of business-to-business communicators, and found that producing the kind of content that engages prospects/customers was the top challenge, followed by producing enough content, and having a budget to produce content. I’d love to know what…
I’ll be sharing nonprofit marketing trends for 2012 next week when we release the 2012 Nonprofit Communications Trends report to those who have requested it, but what about those really big marketing trends that are going to influence our work for years to come? I’ve identified three of them in this short (10 slide) presentation…
It’s cold out, so time for some hot Mixed Links! (If you are new here, this is our close-to-weekly Friday Happy Hour link roundup of good stuff we don’t want you to miss.) What’s the biggest marketing lesson you learned in 2011? Nancy Schwartz wants to know. Share your thoughts and you will be…
Does your organization look to Gen Y for support? This guest post by Convio’s Robyn Mendez explains why and how you should get thier attention. ~Kivi Guest Post by Robyn Mendez, Marketing Manager for Convio Can your donor have a real lifetime value if they aren’t with you for life? While it’s no secret that…
I just received this interesting chart from MarketingSherpa about the evolution of email marketing in the business world. They asked respondents to say whether they were in the trial (beginner), transition, or strategic (advanced) phase for several components of email marketing, as a way to gauge the maturity of an email marketing program. Here’s…
I’m closing the 2012 Nonprofit Communications Trends survey on Friday so that I can spend early next week reviewing the data for our webinar on December 1: Trends for 2012 and Your Marketing Plan for the New Year, where I’ll release some of the data for the first time. If you haven’t already, can you please…
It’s Friday, so it’s time for Mixed Links. Let’s start with some Facebook advice… If you are looking to add a custom tab to your Facebook page that only your fans can see, but feel like you just aren’t “techy” enough to figure it out, John Haydon has a video tutorial for you. For more on…
