If you use Twitter for your nonprofit, you’ve probably been able to meet amazing people, form unexpected alliances and find relevant conversations that you wouldn’t have found anywhere else. But there is one big problem with Twitter. Tweets lose juice. Fast. The graph above is a perfect example of a typical tweet’s lifespan. Born at […]
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Build a WordPress site for your nonprofit in 9 steps
Building a website is for your nonprofit is not as hard as some people make it seem. As we’ve said before, we recommend using a self-hosted WordPress.org installation over one hosted at WordPress.com because you can take advantage of thousands of free plug-ins created by the WordPress developer community.
29 tips to improve your nonprofit site’s landing pages
A landing page is a page on your website where you want visitors to complete a specific transaction, such as donating money or joining an email list.
Obviously these are some of the most important pages on your website. In Seth Godin’s words, “Landing pages are the new direct marketing, and everyone with a website is a direct marketer.”
Use live events to inspire volunteers & supporters
Get Heard: Using Online Tools to inspire Volunteers and Donors View more presentations from erikmintz It’s more important than ever to get face to face with your community Guest post by Erik Mintz Director of Event Marketing, Constant Contact During a presentation last month at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in Washington, D.C., called Get Heard: […]
8 great examples of nonprofit storytelling
How to convey a powerful message with videos & photos Target audience: Nonprofits, social enterprises, NGOs, foundations, cause organizations, Web publishers, small businesses. As regular readers know, I’ve been a longtime proponent of visual storytelling to advance the missions of nonprofits, cause organizations and businesses. (Heck, I co-founded Ourmedia.org before there was a YouTube.) People […]