by Amy | Mar 14, 2011 | Blog
Visual notes created in real time by Jonny Goldstein I caught bits of an interesting conversation on Twitter yesterday – online chatter around the South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) session Nonprofits and Free Agents in a Networked World. I skimmed through the...
by Amy | Mar 8, 2011 | Blog, public relations
Public relations for non-profits has one primary goal: to close the trust gap between your organization and the people who might support or connect with you. To start, consider the three pillars for any trust-based relationship: competence, reliability and sincerity....
by Amy | Mar 8, 2011 | Blog, project management
Whether or not you understand project management, you can still face a strategic plan full of assignments that all need to succeed. Getting all the pieces of your to do list to sync can be a talent in itself. I’m not a designated project manager and can’t compete with...
by Amy | Mar 8, 2011 | Blog, marketing
You can learn more from your failures than your success, and the empty seats that filled an auditorium one fall evening taught me many things about marketing -– and what not to do. The best you can ever do for an event is prepare. However, I learned the hard way that...
by Amy | Mar 8, 2011 | Blog, social media
Still wary of the social media bandwagon? Your caution isn’t without reason; for all the success stories there are more failures and people who just don’t get it. However, while it may be an overused buzzword, social media is not a fad — and it’s not going away...