Register for our Event Fundraising eNewsletter to receive more practical fundraising tips like these in your inbox. Click Here to Sign-Up and get 5 FREE Event Fundraising Whitepapers! Experience shows us that only 40% of your 2011 fundraisers will return for next year’s event. That’s a challenging number to digest. It means that keeping your [...]

Making a difference, a positive impact in the world, is the entire reason your nonprofit organizations exists. Having a voice and a way to spread your message are critical components of making the impact you’re after. Without them your ability to create change decreases significantly. With them, the sky is the limit. There’s plenty of [...]

Maybe you’re satisfied with your communications strategy.Perhaps your nonprofit was recently featured on TV or saluted in the local newspaper. Maybe you just won a prestigious award and issued a press release. You might be proud of your custom Facebook page and how many people follow you on Twitter.

If so, then you probably won’t like what I’m about to say.

There’s a communications medium far too many nonprofits neglect: Gaming.

Have you ever thought about creating a game or using game mechanics as part of your online strategy? What if I told you that it was possible to get nearly 20 MILLION views/plays for a well thought out, nicely executed, message packed game? Sounds crazy, I know, but Joel Bartlett and his team did just [...]

The internet has been around for a long time now (sort of). Back in the early 1960s is when things really started to take shape. What we know as the internet today is actually the by-product of a few visionary people who saw great potential in allowing computers to share information for research and development [...]

SXSW 2012 session voting is nearing the end. We’ve got until Friday Sept 9th (right, tomorrow). If you’re not familiar with the process The  SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March, 2012 in Austin, Texas) is a huge new media event.  Final program is selected through a combination open voting and secret SXSW staff magic. That mean’s [...]