Image by orangebrompton on Flickr Strike right balance between scheduled updates & direct interaction Target audience: Nonprofits, cause organizations, community managers, educators, NGOs, Web publishers, bloggers. When trying to build an online community, I’ve found that one of the most important things to do is to participate consistently in your preferred channels. And not just […]
Archives for August 2011
How to collect email subscribers on your Facebook Page
Caution: There’s more to it than adding a sign-up form Target audience: Nonprofits, NGOs, cause organizations, marketing professionals, businesses, brands. From what I’ve seen, most nonprofits have no idea that you can add to your list — that precious database of your supporters, donors or newsletter subscribers — by strategically using a customized Facebook […]
Innovation: Taking cues from nature
“Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if you make only high-tech, you make war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life” Nam June Paik, Artist (1932 – 2006) There’s a […]
How to pick topics for your nonprofit blog
Let’s say that you’ve set goals for your blog and have selected the right blogging platform. What are you going to write about? This is the No. 1 question that keeps every blogger up at night, and is exactly why it’s referred to as feeding the beast. Survey your readers One of the easiest ways […]
Social Media for Nonprofits hits LA on Monday
Darian Rodriguez Heyman at the San Francisco kickoff of Social Media for Nonprofits. Guest post by Darian Rodriguez Heyman & Ritu Sharma Co-producers, Social Media for Nonprofits You may have heard of Social Media for Nonprofits, a series of one-day conferences that provides nonprofit staffs with the tools and resources needed to create, manage and […]