This past Tuesday, I attended the Social Media for Nonprofits Conference in NYC. There’s always great content and discoveries to be made at the #SM4NP Conferences. They tour around the country and are focused on providing great content and practical, tactical workshops and tools that nonprofits can put to work the next day. Full disclosure: […]
Storytelling
How nonprofits can extend their reach & build community
Sharing with your audience on multiple levels is key Post by Teddy Hunt Target audience: Nonprofits, cause organizations, foundations, NGOs, social enterprises, marketers, managers, general public. Nonprofit organizations have to reach their audiences effectively in order to find supporters and donors for the cause at hand. Social media offers nonprofits the very platform they need to […]
The power of vulnerability on our social communities
Here are five potential ways you can bring vulnerability into your nonprofit’s work, and the benefit of doing so.
Content marketing: We’re all media publishers now
Why nonprofits need to tell their stories by creating new content Target audience: Nonprofits, cause organizations, foundations, NGOs, social enterprises, businesses, marketers, journalists, general public. I‘ve been to dozens of nonprofits’ offices, but there’s a phrase I’ve never heard uttered even once: content marketing. Sounds kind of mysterious, doesn’t it? But when you strip it […]
Video for your cause: Get giddy over Viddy
Nothing tells the real, impactful human stories of actual constituents like video. In the years that I spent as an advocacy program director, collecting user-generated video from our supporters – advocate stories, testimonials, and messages to legislators – was always high on the priority list.