We’re happy to have Robin Lane back here to guest post for us! Check out her last post: Facing Your Fear of Social Media. So many choices, so little time. Today’s world has social media platforms a plenty. The problem is for most of us we are one person maneuvering and managing dozens of channels. […]
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Editor’s note: This is part 2, continuation of last week’s post Have Something to Say: Creating Stories for the Media by Alison Risso. Now the question is: once you have something to say, who do you say it to? Finding Who to Pitch Finding a reporter, blogger or editor to share your story with is
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This guest post is from Jonny Moy, Development Assistant at Little Lights Urban Ministries, a small nonprofit that fundraised $80,000 in 24 hours during Give to the Max Day in DC last fall. I asked Jonny to tell us their secret. We all know that relationships take work . . . sometimes a lot of
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Alison Risso is the Communications Director at Mightycause, and before that, she worked with National Geographic, Discovery Channel, TLC, and Animal Planet. Most recently, she worked with the national nonprofit KaBOOM! In this two-part series, she gives us great tips on how we can create stories to pitch to the media. My mother pointed out
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I am SO EXCITED for us to be hosting a guest post by Shanon Doolittle. She is an event fundraising and donor engagement strategist in Seattle, Washington that has rocked my socks off! She knows event fundraising, she understands nonprofits, and has an incredibly fun personality. Follow her on Twitter and enjoy her post below! Every
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I’m excited to have Tracy Sestili guest posting today about Twitter tools. You may know here from her blog Social Strand Media, where she’s the CEO and Founder. Social Strand helps nonprofits and companies develop brand and social media strategies, and is a founder of her own nonprofit six years ago. You’ve heard the saying, “Twitter
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I’m so happy to have our first guest blog post of 2012! Tonia Zampieri is Co-Founder and principal at The M Gen, LLC. Short for “the mobile generation,” The M Gen provides education, strategy, and technology tools to help nonprofits keep up with the rapidly adopting mobile technology. Banks and credit unions are doing it, retailers,
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We’re excited to have a guest post from Maddie Grant about this very important issue. Maddie is chief social media strategist at SocialFish, where she helps associations build community on the social web. When it comes to online fundraising, it is often the little things that count. The small “tells” on your website that convey
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It’s that time of year again–time for holiday cheer, giving and parties! For the free agent fundraisers and party planners, make your holiday gathering that much more unique and meaningful by providing the opportunity for guests to donate to a cause you care about. 8 Steps to Inspire Giving at Your Holiday Gathering 1. Assess
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As an avid stalker of the Spin Sucks blog (yes, stalker), I asked Lisa Gerber if she’d be able to share her wisdom on how nonprofits can get started–from scratch–on Twitter. Twitter’s not as popular as Facebook, but it’s still an incredible source of community building power for nonprofits. So if you’re not sure about using
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