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I’m speaking at the Essex County Community Foundation’s Institute for Trustees on March 22, and the topic is “Online Marketing & Social Media: What a Board Member Needs to Know”. If you’ve seen me speak, you know I cram in a ton of information into my sessions, and this one is just one hour. I wanted to come up with …
Pinterest announced today that users are now able to create an unlimited amount of Secret Boards! Secret Boards have many uses on Pinterest. Here are 7 ways nonprofits can take advantage of this feature: 1) Use as an inter-office collaboration tool. Secret Boards can also be Group Boards, providing the users all have Pinterest accounts. Create a Secret Board called …
As I’ve established in previous blog posts, having compelling, eye-catching and provocative visuals is a necessity for nonprofit marketing campaigns. Nonprofit marketers should be constantly keeping an eye out for provocative infographics, whether you are sharing them on Pinterest or using them to communicate with donors and stakeholders. Creating original infographics about your organization and your cause are the best …
Crowdfunding platforms such as Kickstarter raised $2.7 billion in 2012 to fund more than one million individual campaigns globally. The industry, which is revolutionizing fundraising and investing is projected to grow to over $5 billion in the next year. These campaigns have the potential to raise huge sums of money in a short period of time. This morning I gave …
Google+ is by far the most underestimated social network out there. Despite being directly connected to search behemoth Google as well as YouTube, the third largest social network, nonprofits have been slow to jump on the Google+ bandwagon. However, with the recent changes in the Facebook algorithm drastically affecting Facebook Pages, many nonprofits are looking to diversify their social online …
Twitter remains the second most important social media tool for nonprofits. However, a serious lack of time, resources and strategic planning for social media and communication seems to put a hamper on many nonprofits’ participation on the second most popular social network. Does this sound like you? I don’t get Twitter. I don’t know where to start. I don’t know …
By far the most frequent question that I get from nonprofits is: How do we get more fans on our Facebook page? What this really means is – how do we get new people to look at our Page and enjoy it enough to click like? I often explain that the sheer number of fans is not what is important …
What should you tell your boss when they ask why your Facebook fans are not increasing as quickly as they would like? Let’s start with: “Shove it!” (No, no, no. Just kidding.) First things first. I have written a lot about getting more engagement on Facebook and the recent changes that have driven down organic reach for Facebook pages across …
There have been more changes at Facebook that have serious implications for your nonprofit’s Facebook strategy. As a busy nonprofit professional, you may be getting discouraged. If you are like many Facebook Admins, your Page has seen a serious decrease in organic reach (people seeing your Page posts) since December, and you may be wondering why. I know that it’s …