Nonprofits pioneered social media. They were on Myspace and organizing via Facebook Groups years before corporate brands, higher education, and broadcast and print media. That said, I am  starting to worry a little bit that nonprofits are falling behind on mobile communications and missing out on some exceptional opportunities to tell their nonprofit’s story to the mobile masses.

One of the simplest ways to begin dabbling in mobile technology is to launch a mobile photo-sharing
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Here are some ideas for low-cost event publicity – as requested in our blog reader survey. By focusing on media relations, event calendars, your website, email and social media, even organizations with limited resources can promote events with little or no cost. …(read more)

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Theory informs practice.  Practice informs theory.     You need both.  The best how-to books out there combine them.  A book that is all  concepts and theory, makes it hard to apply the information in the real world.   But, if the book is just a collection of disconnected tips, then you run the risk of implementing with out strategy.   This book combines the two.

Nonprofit Management 101: A Complete and
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Based on more than 15 years of experience in nonprofit communications and 15,000+ hours spent utilizing social and mobile media, Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits, written by Heather Mansfield, is a comprehensive 270-page hardcover book packed with more than 100 best practices covering Web 1.0, Web 2.0, and Web 3.0 nonprofit communications and fundraising. From building your e-newsletter list to finding your “Twitter voice” to launching a mobile
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Here is a brief review of five recently published research reports, white papers, e-books and guides that might be of interest to non-profit and membership organizations. …(read more)

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Whenever I teach a workshop or give a presentation,  I ask the audience these questions and to jot it down on a 3×5 card.   These have become a wonderful collection of small steps, easy actions that can be taken after the training to immediately apply learning and improve practice.

Here’s one for Twitter.

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In our book, Networked Nonprofit, we describe the principles for becoming a networked nonprofit – a nonprofit that is simple, agile, transparent, and works more like a network than an isolated fortress.   Networked nonprofits are experts at using new media (social media, mobile, and other emerging technologies) to spread their missions, design and scale programs, communicate with stakeholders, or inspire behavior change.   Their impact is to make the
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Version 4.2 is well on its way to being released around mid-May. This month, the Chief lets us in on the last behind-the-scenes updates before it goes live, shares screenshots of Version 4.3, and fills us in on some other Wild Apricot news!
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Since I am a web developer, the core of my development workflow is, for sure, a browser. But not just one browser, or any browser. Several. Chrome has become my everyday browser, although Firefox is making its way back into my heart, now that Firefox 4 is so lean and zippy. But I am very often in both. I use Opera on occasion, and, of course, I use IE only when I absolutely have to
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