Do you have a professional development plan? If yes, is the plan something you have created for your own career development? Or, are your professional development pursuits supported by your employer? Marketing communications is a fast-paced, ever-changing field, so dedicating time to professional development is essential – but how do you do it? Developing our… Read More »
Imagine getting updated as soon as information you need/want is published. Someone you follow finds a cool link, writes a great post, an article that mentions your organization is published, you’re mentioned in the news… With RSS feeds, as soon as the content you’re interested in is published, it’s shared with you. At its core,… Read More »
This year, when we explored the topic of nonprofit communications capacity in blog posts, LinkedIn discussions and during our most recent #NPMC Twitter chat, a recurring theme was ‘not enough time to get everything done’. So for our last post of 2013, I asked community members for their reflections and answers to this question: “Based on… Read More »
Are your friends and family already asking for your holiday ‘wish list’? Why not take this opportunity to build your professional development library? You might have time over the holidays to actually read a book or two! To help unearth some must-reads to add to our wish lists, I asked a group of smart nonprofit… Read More »
When you’re running a small or start up nonprofit, time management gets messy. Which hat do you wear and when? How do you develop your organization while managing all of your daily operations? I made up exactly half of our nonprofit team when we started in 2012 and I managed the responsibilities of a full… Read More »
As marketers and communicators, it’s important to stay fresh and inspired. Where do you turn for ideas and inspiration? It’s all around us, in both expected and unexpected places. To discover some new ways to inspire nonprofit marketing, I posed the question to a group of pros. Their answers are diverse, clever and…inspiring! Here are… Read More »
How do you balance your personal and professional social media identities? Do you struggle with balance? Does this struggle hold you back from reaping the rewards of participating in social networks? To help us understand how nonprofit marketing communications professionals can participate in social media in a way that feels comfortable and suitable, I invited Debra… Read More »
Specializing in nonprofit marketing communications is an exciting and rewarding career choice. It’s not for everyone, but those who do it seem to really love it. In recent months, I’ve had many conversations about advice to give those considering the specialty. I decided to tap into our community’s collective wisdom and ask a number of… Read More »
You probably have a LinkedIn profile. You’ve probably received many invitations and heard many times that you should. So you created one. But even if you’ve built a strong list of connections, you may still be searching for how to get more out of LinkedIn. As with any other social media platform, an investment of… Read More »