Jocelyn Harmon is Vice President of Sales, Marketing and Customer Success at Network for Good. She has been writing Marketing for Nonprofits blog since 2007. The interview was conducted by Don Akchin, a principal of Nonprofit Marketing 360 and a frequent contributor to the MKCREATIVE blog. MKC: You have said a focus of your blog […]
#FUNDRAISING: Consider Moving Some Online Donors To Direct Mail Giving
Social networks can be so important for communicating with folks who support (or will support) your cause. The high speed and low cost of such outreach can offer huge dividends, but mostly those dividends are paid in good will and spurring interest. Online donations are certainly growing, but as a report from Blackbaud this year […]
#STORYTELLING: How To Be Better At Telling Stories
If you can reduce your organization’s whole reason for being to a story packed with suffering and hope, love and pain, loss and victory – about people you can recognize as being like you – then you can attract support. Network for Good has a brief article with 7 useful tips for becoming a better […]
#COMMUNICATIONS: Is Your Organization Moving At The Speed Of Mobile?
With the rise of the smartphone and its ability to be the computer for millions of people around the world, mobile technology is becoming more powerful and less expensive every few months. And with those technological changes come changes of habit and expectation. One of the changes we and many others have commented on is […]
#SocialNetworking: Social Media Strategies And Pitfalls – Motives And Metrics
As the analytics roll in, an organization might be surprised at what it finds. Safdar and Englin discovered that the frequency of UNICEF’s postings to its Facebook site had an unintended consequence: With the exception of responses to specific high-profile crises, the UNICEF staff lost most people’s attentions after about the third posting/update of the […]
