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This post was first published on the GiftWorks Guest Blog. Instagram is hot. With 100 million monthly active users and over 40 million photos uploaded per day, the photo-sharing site claims to gain a new follower every second. Online marketing is visual. If you are not telling your story to your supporters in a visual way, you may be ignored or …
On Tuesday I was pleased to present a webinar with Nonprofit Webinars (a service of 4Good) on the topic: How to Build An Army of Online Brand Ambassadors, part of their Tech Tuesdays series. The slides are here: How to Build An Army of Online Brand Ambassadors from Julia Campbell Nonprofits are strapped for resources – staff time is minimal …
Some people love it, some people hate it – and some people love to hate it. Your favorite social network is changing again, and this time for the better. In an announcement last week, Facebook unveiled their new News Feed FYI blog to “highlight major updates to News Feed and explain the thinking behind them.” Did you know that on …
Recently, I was forced to change my email inbox. Reluctantly (grumbling all the way), I accepted the new design of Gmail. The new inbox creates three tabs and filter emails according to where Gmail thinks they belong – Primary, Social and Promotions. I had already spent countless hours setting up filters and labels to correctly file all of my emails …
Pinterest has been busy! Reaching 70 million users and 2.5 billion monthly pageviews, Pinterest has been growing like a weed – a very popular weed that marketing professionals should not ignore. We all know why I love Pinterest, especially for nonprofits. My top 3 reasons: 1) Pinterest is growing leaps and bounds. 2) Pinterest is where women are, and women …
Implementing a mobile strategy is no longer an option for nonprofits, because in less than a year more of your supporters will visit your website from a mobile device than from their desktop computer. Despite the explosion of mobile usage, too many nonprofits think that having a successful mobile strategy means simply creating a mobile-friendly website. In reality, an effective …
Soon after Instagram launched in October 2010, celebrities, actors and athletes jumped on the bandwagon in full force, taking #selfies, using the cool filters and blowing up everyone’s feeds with their glamorous lifestyles. Since one could argue that Instagram is a bit more narcissistic and self-involved than the other social networks, it is puzzling why politicians and government officials have …
I love blogging. Coming up with ideas for blog posts has never been my problem – it’s finding the time to write that’s challenging! Recently I’ve been asked by clients how they can keep their blog fresh and full of interesting, relevant content every week. Some of them have bloggers block, others have no idea where to start. Here are …
As a nonprofit professional, you wear many hats. Between answering emails, making phone calls to supporters, editing the annual appeal letter and coordinating fundraising events, who has time to maintain more than one social media site? You do have time. I promise. The answer to managing it all lies in one word – planning! Use a Social Media Calendar to …