The NonProfit Times

MAY 23, 2024

At the end, what the results told us was that we were communicating in a way that better aligned with what people were expecting to see in their inboxes.” Those results should give pause to anyone convinced that email is losing sway to text messaging, social media, or other channels. “I Approximately 600,000 of the roughly 1.6

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2015

There are no better champions for your organization’s communication’s strategy than your staff. Policy makers, another target audience, were also using Twitter as a communications channel. Says Jim Murphy, “In the early days of Twitter, our Executive Director, Ken Roth , was an early adopter is still active on Twitter.

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See3

APRIL 6, 2009

See3 Communications Names Shirley Sexton Director, Interactive Marketing and Fundraising. Leading provider of new media services to nonprofit community adds experienced online fundraiser and strategist to manage expanded service offering. About See 3 Communications. million dollars in just six years.

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EveryAction

JULY 21, 2016

The current environment makes it tempting for an organization to spread themselves really thin as they try to use every channel at their disposal. What pieces of functionality (advocacy, email, events, etc.) Social media, texting, apps and blogs have all been added to the mix. MW: This is a great question!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

Colleagues Allyson Kapin who founded a web agency called Rad Campaign (they designed my blog) and Amy Sample Ward, who the NTEN Membership Director (and I’ve known since 2007 ) have published a new how to book called “ Social Change Any Time Every Where.” Internet Director. Web Producer. Online Campaigner.

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NetWits

MARCH 7, 2011

Description: As non-profits turn their sights to the social web for mission delivery, advocacy, fundraising and awareness building, more for-profits organizations are supporting charity work with specialized programs and initiatives. Title: Social Media for Social Good: How Digital Charity is Changing our World.

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NTEN

APRIL 22, 2014

NTEN was invaluable to me when I found myself becoming an "accidental techie" at an international development organization; wisdom from the NTEN Community helped make managing our organization''s contact database, maintaining the website, and coordinating our online communications possible. By the way, thanks, team!

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NTEN

DECEMBER 12, 2013

With 2,000+ thought leaders expected to connect in Washington, DC for our #14NTC, we''re excited to announce some special "Big Ideas" panels that we hope will continue to open up conversations around the big issues that we face in the information and communications technology landscape. Sean Larkin, Director of Strategy, ThinkShout, Inc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Idealware created the Nonprofit Social Media Decision Guide to help organizations like yours determine what results and benefits you can reasonably expect from social media, and to guide you through the process of identifying the right channels for different goals. Laura Quinn is the Executive Director at Idealware. Try asking them.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 10, 2014

Prior to the start of FusionSpark Media, Kevin worked as a communications and public relations professional in the health care industry in the Philadelphia area. At the base of any well written content strategy is a solid grasp of strategic communication fundamentals. . / Producer and co-founder of FusionSpark Media, Inc.

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Care2

OCTOBER 11, 2011

And now more than ever, people are reaching out to their members of congress through online channels to voice their concerns about some of these very issues. The Congressional Management Foundation new study, Communicating with Congress: How Citizen Advocacy Is Changing Mail Operations on Capitol Hill provides some good insight.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2013

Co-Founder & Executive Director. As executive director, Aaron's focus is on communication, collaboration, nonprofits, video, social media, and the bleeding-edge technology behind these things. See3 Communications , Founder & CEO. Elliot Harmon Creative Commons , Communications Manager. Michael Hoffman.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2015

Many nonprofits have limited capacity and staff resources when it comes to implementing marketing and communications strategy, especially social media. It expands your organization’s social footprint and presence beyond what the lone communications director or marketing team is capable of reaching on their own.

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Care2

MAY 29, 2012

Since the last era of integrated communications during the 90s, we've seen two economic crashes and the rise of social (and now mobile) media. Nonprofits have become less effective communicators across the board. The organizational failure to understand the customer experience stymies donor development and advocacy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2013

Transmedia – Making Change Across Mediums by Danny Alpert, Executive Director, Kindling Group and Executive Producer, See3 Communications. When I started out, the “broadcast, festival, and screenings” model of distribution dictated community engagement strategies that were more linear, and limited. ” Enjoy.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 10, 2014

Prior to the start of FusionSpark Media, Kevin worked as a communications and public relations professional in the health care industry in the Philadelphia area. At the base of any well written content strategy is a solid grasp of strategic communication fundamentals. . / Producer and co-founder of FusionSpark Media, Inc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2015

The panel included Stefani Klaskow , Head of Industry/Healthcare at Google; Carrie Martin Munk , Chief Communications & Marketing Office, The ALS Association, and Jackie Fouse, Ph.d, The audience consisted of patient and professional patient advocacy organizations that were attending the ASCO meeting.

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Achieve

AUGUST 12, 2021

Across all campaign communications, it should be evident that your cause is powering the fundraiser, and that goes beyond simply branding pages with your official colors and logo. Communicate with your audience by showing engaging photos of your work or a testimonial. is a Marketing Director at. About the Authors. Wendy Levine.

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Care2

AUGUST 23, 2011

About the presenters: Madeline Stanionis, CEO & Founder, Watershed Madeline Stanionis is the CEO of Watershed, a leading online fundraising, advocacy, and marketing agency. Eric Glader, Director of Nonprofit Services, Care2 Eric has been with Care2 since 2001 helping nonprofits with advocacy, fundraising and membership growth.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

We also develop customized fundraising tools for the Luminate platform, including P2P, advocacy mobile apps , gift entry portal, an email authoring app, a web survey app, TeamRaiser extensions and overlays, member center customizations, and more. Fundraising products for Luminate Online. Learn more about our array of products.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 18, 2013

This guest post was authored by Dennis McCarthy, director of enterprise sales at Target Analytics, a Blackbaud company. Quick questions: Do you know what issue they responded to, and do you know when they responded and in what channel? First, craft a welcome communication series: by issue and by source (website, commercial site).

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Top Nonprofits

DECEMBER 6, 2021

And since these are channels that are really important to so many nonprofits, I’d love to get your take on things. I think leaving the platforms is not viable for many, many nonprofits, especially from marginalized communities that rely on the platforms to communicate and organize.

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Qgiv

JULY 21, 2022

Multi-channel marketing is the practice of communicating and marketing across many channels. By leveraging multiple communication channels—email, mobile, direct mail, websites, social media, paid and earned media, SEO, and more, you expand your reach to engage new donors and supporters.

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CauseVox

JUNE 22, 2021

Discover how to communicate why donors should make a gift with Nathan Hill, Marketing Director @ NextAfter. You’ve probably experienced the frustration of sending out carefully crafted communications only for your donors to get distracted and move on before they engage. Today’s donor has a short attention span, and it shows.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2011

Can mobile drive volunteers activists, to engage across other media channels? In this case, we were talking about how to integrate the use of mobile technology into multi-channel campaigns with an emphasis on social. Have a strategy that is integrated with all your communications channels and supports your objectives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2011

I used the following statements given that I had a mix of staff members – from executive directors, social media managers, and policy/program directors. Policymakers do not pay attention to messaging that comes through social media channels. How To Convince Policy Directors. Living Case Study.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Greg Ligon, our guest blogger for the latest Online Community Meetup, is an online communications professional with experience in building. a brand via online channels, social media communications and website content. Raising Awareness and Communicating Out. development. Learn more about Greg on LinkedIn.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

In this webinar, Doug Barker (Principal and Co-Founder of Barker & Scott Consulting) and Amy Ganderson (Digital Marketing Director at The Nature Conservancy) will share their ideas, examples and key strategies for making your supporters feel appreciated – and more tied to – your mission and organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

We have designed and been delivering “ Friending the Finish Line ” with the goals of having organizations create an integrated social media strategy into their overall communications plan and as a way to accelerate the progress of their children’s health care advocacy work and create a peer networked learning community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2011

.&# The organization worked with an agency that helped them developed a robust communications strategy that included best practices in branding and messaging, measurable objectives, identified audiences based on research and social media scanning, a marketing funnel/model, and best practices in multiple channels.

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NTEN

MAY 9, 2011

By Jeff Stanger, Director, Center for Digital Information We are obsessed with data — big data, open data, linked data, personal data, government data, visualized data. Data Next, communication turns data into information In gathering data, we've only created the potential to inform. Information equals data plus communication.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Because of the project’s scale, we opted to use Twitter as our communications channel instead of Facebook. The stories are great for social media, as well as advocacy efforts, resource development, online giving solicitations and more. We identified two quantitative success measures, Twitter impressions and content sharing.

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Care2

AUGUST 28, 2013

In my experience, the biggest difference in the varying payback on a Care2 multi-channel donor acquisition campaign (or any online acquisition) tends to be the total number of fundraising appeals that an organization sends to its supporters. Email marketing is mainly a numbers game. And in the meantime, run the numbers on your own program.

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NTEN

MARCH 6, 2015

First up, a round of applause for the winner of the sixth annual Care2 Impact Prize, which recognizes a campaign or initiative in the nonprofit sector that has made an outstanding impact on the field of online advocacy, online fundraising, or both. Rebecca Reyes , Communications Manager, Everday Democracy.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 8, 2018

For the report, we surveyed those responsible for digital at 80 advocacy-oriented organizations based in the United States, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom about how their organizations were using digital tools, staffing their digital programs, and making decisions about digital in their organizations. The Team Restructure Trap.

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EveryAction

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Founded in 2010, Yeeboo Digital is a collection of strategic, technical, and creative digital experts with a focus on technology, communications, and fundraising for the nonprofit and charitable sector. Are there active advocacy efforts going on? Learn more by visiting their website.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 21, 2013

In today’s data-driven world, CRM can enable nonprofits to see a 360° view of all their constituents, not just their donors, and allow for more effective multi-channel communication and solicitation strategies, as well as their managing programs. Or as we like to say, it enables organizations like yours to manage your mission.

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