Guest Post by Kivi Leroux Miller Kivi Leroux Miller has just launched a book, Nonprofit Marketing Guide: High-Impact, Low-Cost Ways to Build Support for Your Good Cause. To help her celebrate, I invited to write a post with some steps and tips for integrating web content, email, and social media. You put up a website way back when, then started sending out an email newsletter. Now you’ve added social media. If you feel like your online marketing strategy is made up of a bunch of loose ends, … [Read more...]
How can we prepare organizational leaders to work in a networked world?
Guest post by Patti Anklam Guest blogger, Patti Anklam, author of Net Work: A Practical Guide to Creating and Sustaining Networks at Work and in the World, explores the role of organizational leadership in a network world. This post is part of a series of articles exploring topics related to network leadership hosted by Leadership for a New Era or LNE, a collaborative research initiative launched by the Leadership Learning Community (http://leadershiplearning.org/) in 2009. LNE focuses on … [Read more...]
Microsoft's Networked Approach To Accelerating Social Change Through Technology
Earlier this month, I had an opportunity to attend Microsoft's “Accelerator Summit,” a day of conversation with Microsoft employees, partners, academics, journalists, and bloggers about their corporate citizenship program. Their strategy focuses on technology and partnerships that can accelerate systemic on the ground social change and economic issues. The Accelerator Summit included interactive sessions show casing their programs in these areas: workforce development, employee giving, … [Read more...]
Actionable Listening: Learning from Watching Other Nonprofits
Actionable listening on social media channels means transforming a "river of noise" into insights that are actionable. That is, you gain insight, can make a decision, or do something. Listening can help your organization craft conversation starters, figure out how to best start engaging, identify social content that you can incorporate into your content strategy, identify potential brand ambassadors, or address a potential crisis early in the game. Earlier this week, I was facilitated a … [Read more...]
What's the ROI of Online Voting and Fundraising Contests?
Source: Extreme Foods For the third and final Conversational Case Study on America’s Giving Challenge from Allison Fine and I, we pose a question rather than answer one: Is there a “special sauce” for successful participation in online fundraising contests? The post summarizes the strategies used by contest winners. I wonder if the secret sauce is to do a cost/benefit analysis before you start preparing your favorite social media sauce? Hit the pause button and ask: "Should our … [Read more...]