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Engaging Your Email List and Measuring Results

Your nonprofit’s email newsletter is one of the most important and direct methods of communication you have with your supporters. But how much time do you spend thinking about how to create a really great newsletter experience for your readers?

How to Tell Stories That Get Results

Lisa speaking at Toronto Net Tuesday If you’re anything like me, you’re always on the hunt for a good story - something to post on your organization’s blog, share on Facebook, tweet to your supporters, or publish in your newsletter. Sometimes this is easy - a great story lands in your inbox overnight and you can’t wait to share it with the world. Most of the time, however, coming up with a brilliant story is not easy. In fact, it can be pretty darn hard.

Advanced Use of Google Grants – Moving Past Basic Advertising

Wouldn’t it be great if you could test the subject line of your email campaigns for effectiveness before sending them out to your donors? Would you like to know if there is demand for a potential program prior to investing your organization’s time and money? If you have a Google Grant, this post will show you how you can move beyond basic advertising and use your AdWords account to test and analyze online content and demand for your organizations’ services.

Hosting a Virtual AGM - CAPACOA's Story / Tenir une AGA virtuelle – l’expérience de CAPACOA

Live Streaming your Event on a Limited Budget - Maytree's Story

 

Note from Tierney: This is the second blog post in our series about live streaming events. To find out a different approach to live streaming - with multiple backup options for participants - read Heath Nexus' live streaming story.

Marco CampanaBy: Marco Campana, Communications Strategist, Maytree

How to Live Stream your Event - Health Nexus' Story

Note from Tierney: Live streaming is a great way to reach your supporters & members who are geographically distributed, and we're seeing more and more nonprofits interested in learning about how it works. We're posting this blog from Melissa and another blog coming up soon to provide two different perspectives/approaches to live streaming from nonprofits who've tried it for themselves. Have your own experience you'd like to share? Get in touch!

How Crowdsourcing Helps Your Nonprofit

Harness the Crowd to Increase Awareness, Cultivate New Volunteers, and Gather Information for Your Charity

By: Soha El Borno

August 23, 2012

From Phones to Facebook: How to Engage Youth on the Front Lines of Social Media

Jason Shim

A Few Good Tools: Petitions and Pledges

Nonprofit professionals recommend affordable tools for all budgets

By: Laura S. Quinn and Kyle Andrei

August 1, 2011

Friday Feed - Great resources from the web - January 13, 2012

Happy New Year everyone! To make it easier for you to get updates on our blog, if you so choose, I've added an email subscribe option which you can find on the right sidebar under "Get Email Updates". Or if you prefer, you can continue to get updates through RSS, Twitter, Facebook, our enewsletter or just by visiting the website when you're in the mood :)