It’s Friday so let’s have some Mixed Links! Messaging Voting for the 2012 Nonprofit Taglines Awards Competition ends next Friday, October 5th. It only takes about 5 minutes and may actually help you consider whether your tagline is working or not. Vote today! What do you think of your mission statement? Here is a challenge: see…
Happy Friday! It’s once again time for some delicious Mixed Links. Crisis Management and Communications Melissa Agnes has a new report on Social Media Crisis Planning For Non-Profit Organizations. The Chronicle of Philanthropy shares Why Livestrong Will Survive Lance Armstrong’s Struggles. I also recently did a presentation on nonprofit social media crisis communications for the Virginia…
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…
Thanks to all of you who took our survey this month on nonprofit newsletters. I’ve shared some of the results already in posts on how social media is influencing newsletters and how often you should send email newsletters to supporters. Here are some other interesting stats from the survey, which was completed by 419 nonprofits.…
Happy Friday, everyone! Time, once again, for some Mixed Links… Video is one of the best ways to inspire supporters. Here are 10 Video Campaign and Fundraising Tips for Nonprofits and Social Causes. For other ways to get your supporters involved — even if you are graphically challenged — try How to Easily Create Professional-Looking…
Every nonprofit communicator wants an answer to this question! My generic advice — knowing nothing about your organization — is monthly bare minimum and really more like twice a month. You should step it up beyond that to more like weekly if you need people to do lots of things (you have lots of calls…
In yesterday’s post, I told you that I suspect that the reason online givers seem to be one-hit-wonders has less to do with online givers being fickle and more with nonprofits not yet figuring out how to do online donor retention well. I promised to share what happened when I gave online gifts to 20 national…
You may be wondering why online fundraising seems to work so great for a few organizations and really poorly for others. And you may have heard that online givers are flaky or fickle, which was reinforced by Blackbaud’s research that concluded that online-acquired donors are more valuable in the long-term than traditional mail-acquired donors, but only…
Welcome to Mixed Links! Engagement (or as Claire would say, “Getting peeps talking”) Does your nonprofit know the difference between documentation and communication? Make sure you do in Stop Documenting. Start Communicating. Getting people on your email list is very important, but so is what you do after you get them there. Katya Andresen shares…
Last week, I asked for your thoughts on how your newsletter has changed, including how your organization’s use of social media has affected your newsletter, whether print or online. Of the 299 people who had answered this particular question when I pulled the data yesterday, a third said that social media had little to no…
Happy Friday everyone! Join me for some Mixed Links . . . Constant Contact released results from their 2012 Nonprofit Pulse Survey. The survey findings are consistent with what we found in our own Nonprofit Communications Trends Report: nonprofits are concerned about finding and connecting with supporters, and are excited about the role of social media…
It’s Friday – Mixed Links time! Internet Marketing Beth Kanter brings us An Interview With Facebook’s Libby Leffler: Facebook and Nonprofits. And also Strategic Spontaneity: How the Humane Society Got 21,000 Shares of Campaign Message on Facebook In 48 Hours. Do you commit one of the 7 Deadly Sins of Facebook Brand Pages? NTEN is…
