Ongoing learning/education

The Nonprofit MarCommunity blog is a forum that brings together diverse experiences, expertise, and insights. I suspected that when I turned to our community for book recommendations, I would get a mix of suggestions that would shake up my reading list. I was right. If you’d like to pick up (or download) a new book for… Read More »

Is there a professional development opportunity that you won’t miss? To unearth opportunities and ideas for the community, I asked a group of nonprofit communicators for their ‘must-attend’ professional development events. Here’s how I framed the question: What is your ‘must-attend’ professional development event of the year and why? It can be a major conference… Read More »

If you are like most nonprofit communicators, you are used to wearing many different hats while you constantly re-prioritize. Most mornings, I walk in to work and look at my long list of things to do before writing a slightly shorter list of things I will do today. But then a crisis will happen, a… Read More »

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 »

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 »