Imagine producing online communications you're proud to share with the world and that garner praise from funders, donors, and other stakeholders. Prospects and stakeholders who interact with you online have only your online communications to evaluate your organization. pitiful. Dreadful. Maybe that includes yours? Are you credible?

Ben Matthews has just announced the launch of CharityComms 2020 , an initiative that Bright One has been spearheading in partnership with CharityComms, the professional body for charity communicators. What are your five trends you see affecting charity communications in the next 10 years? What were my ideas? Your Invitation.

Nearly every organization is feeling the pull to communicate more. To stay abreast, your organization needs to maximize its capacity for communication. of our 25 ways to increase your organization's communication capacity. Pay attention to who you are communicating with so you can maximize the impact of your efforts.

With the likely resurgence of Swine Flu (er, Influenze A[H1N1]) this Fall, we're giving more thought at Forum One to communications continuity if our 40 staff need to work at home for a few weeks. recently posted a presentation I made to foundation CTOs entitled "Communications Continuity: Pandemic Flu Preparation for the Enterprise".

The formatting reinforces that there are three key priorities, using three paragraphs led by the key subject words Communication, Transparency, and Participation. Tags: Collaboration As Obama raised his hand and took the oath of office around noon yesterday the new administration launched its new version of the WhiteHouse.gov web site.

As your organization’s communicator, you may want to appoint yourself the Editor-in-chief of your blog. Building Your Nonprofit’s Community on Twitter One of the most important roles of a communicator is to build community around your nonprofit. What about expanding your outreach? Start with your nonrprofit's team.

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It was refreshing to attend a web communications conference where the moderator of the first panel discussion wasn't someone like me: a member of generation X or Y with an English degree who can passionately argue on behalf of his favorite Twitter client, but can't program a lick. Tags: Influence Collaboration Bill Wulf. What say you?

Here are 100 different applications to help you out with a variety of tasks from project tracking and collaboration to donor and membership management, and from building your non-profit website to tracking its effectiveness.( read more ).

Dave Gray’s Communication Nation blog is always one that jumps out at me from my rather cluttered web feed. Dave has just created this neat little image following some conversations he had with Stefano Mastrogiacomo , and from  this book that Stefano lent him. Perfect for a Friday