Lori Jacobwith is a communications and fundraising coach, consultant and blogger. She founded the Ignited Online Fundraising Community and is author of the forthcoming book, Withism’s from Lori: Boldness, Clarity and Wisdom for Fundraising Professionals Making a Difference. The interview was conducted by Don Akchin, a principal of Nonprofit Marketing 360 and a frequent contributor […]
#BOOKREVIEW: Idea Index – A Portable Guide
Idea Index is a great series we’d like to recommend. This edition is particularly useful when a designer needs to brainstorm different looks and approaches and is pressed for time. From the dust-jacket: “Don’t let the size fool you. Inside you’ll discover thousands of big ideas for graphic effects and type treatments—via hundreds of prompts […]
#BOOKREVIEW: Illuminated Manuscripts : Treasures of The Pierpoint Morgan Library
Illuminated Manuscripts… is a pocket-size collection of medieval and renaissance paintings typically found in books, bibles, scientific works, and the “how-to” reference guides of the day. This particular volume has seen much use at the MKCREATIVE Design studio. It’s a rich source of inspiration and ideas – we are forever referring to it for guidance […]
#Interview: Rob Wu, Founder of CauseVox, On Building Online Tools For Nonprofits (Part 1 of 2)
CauseVox offers a unique combination of online tools to nonprofits. It acts as a website building Content-Management System (CMS), a social-media platform with built in connections to a nonprofit’s Facebook, Twitter, YouTube… accounts, and a system to track donors’s contact information and their relations with your organization (for example, how much they have given over […]
Resource: Writing Better Headlines
Network for Good has published an e-book, Big Impact in Small Spaces: 9 Ways To Write Better Email Subject Lines, Headlines, Tweets and Facebook Updates. It’s available as a free download that will take less time than it takes to type the book title. Guest blogger Don Akchin writes frequently about marketing and philanthropy at […]
#PRESENTATIONS: Bagger Events – Slide Presentations
The Challenge: MKCREATIVE created slide presentations for the National Committee on Citizenship conference every year. Our client, Bagger Events, contracts us to both develop presentations for the event and to provide MKCREATIVE graphics staff to run the presentations during the conference. We also act as technical consultants. Our Solution: MKCREATIVE assigned a team to develop […]