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Put Members in the Spotlight as Meeting Storytellers

Associations Now

When members gather at conferences, you have a big opportunity to collect their stories to showcase the people who make up your community. Face-to-face communication has grown scarcer in this digital age, when emails, texts, and social media posts often replace direct, two-way conversation.

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What Skills Should a Communications Team Have?

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

“My name is Matt Silva, and I work for a nonprofit based in San Francisco called EARN. I’m a member of EARN’s first-ever communications team, and we’re thinking strategically about what roles and functions we’ll need to fill for the coming year. Can you help me answer this question?

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A Day in the Life of a Quarantined Nonprofit Communicator – Rachel Braver

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Last week, I was a little bored and thought it would be funny to give our Day in the Life of a Nonprofit Communicator series a quarantine spin. Rachel’s bio: I am the Multimedia Specialist working on web, social media, print, and email communications for the Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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See You at NTC 2012 in San Francisco Next Week!

Beth Kanter

Next week should be officially be named “Nonprofit Techie Week” in San Francisco! Picturing Your Data is Better Than 1,000 Numbers:Data Visualization Techniques for Social Change. Are you intrigued by infographics and how they could improve your communication strategy? Flickr Photo by Star Dust.

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What Burning Man's 10 Principles Can Teach You About Building Community

Higher Logic

Nope, this all began (on a much smaller scale) back in 1986 when friends Larry Harvey and Jerry James built an 8-foot tall human effigy and burned it on Baker Beach in San Francisco (population: 35). 6: Communal Effort. Our community values creative cooperation and collaboration. Post-event community engagement.

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How to find free things: nonprofit students edition 

Candid

The University of San Francisco was the first school to offer a Master’s in Nonprofit Administration less than 40 years ago, and the first School of Philanthropy was created just nine years ago at Indiana University. This fall, a year into my master’s program, I started an internship on Candid’s communications team.

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Investing in Yourself: Professional Development for Community Managers

Higher Logic

Spending just one hour a week chatting with other community folks facing similar challenges can give you new ideas, and help you think about your existing programs in new ways. Many cities have monthly meet-ups including Boston's Community Manager Meet-up , Octribe in San Francisco and Austin's Community Manager Breakfast.