Summit Collaborative - Building Nonprofit Power

FREE webinar about use of video & YouTube

On July 15th I'm doing a webinar that I think you'll find very helpful. You will learn how to use both freely available video as well as your own video to tell your story, inspire existing and new donors, better serve clients, improve staff performance, support your Board of Directors and activate your volunteers and members. Click here to learn more and/or register.

Super simple 'how-to' tutorials to set up your own blog, audiocast and more.

Over the past few months I've produced a series of online tutorials that walk you step-by-step through web 2.0 tools. I think you'll find them very useful as they will make it possible for you to easily start your own blog, produce audiocasts (podcasts), create and embed super cool maps on your website and more. I'm now working on three more tutorials. They cover Twitter, YouTube and Facebook. I'll make sure to let you know when they are ready.

Check 'em out by clicking on the banner below or in the menu to your left!

Email Strategy - Subject lines, audience behavior and more

Email is still one of the most powerful Internet-based tools when you consider that virtually everyone who goes online has one. Using email to its potential however is still a challenge for many people. The following videocasts provide you with some simple rules of the road when it comes to the use of email to engage groups of people. Of course the themes also relate in many cases to emails you might send to a single person. I hope you find them helpful.

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Email Subject Lines

Learning to build, nurture and sustain online communities

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Together with Bellanet, USAID, the Association for Progressive Communications and others we created the 'Building Electronic Communities an Networks' web-based curriculum for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). 

The module covers the approaches, methods, and tools used to build electronic communities as well as the steps and procedures for developing and facilitating electronic communities. TIt contains 29 lessons, ranging from approximately 15 to 90 minutes duration, grouped into five units, for a total of about 16 to 22 hours of self-paced instruction. You can use it to help you build, nurture and sustain your online community. It walks you step by step from assessment to implementation.

How to launch or improve your online community

This series of short videos lays out the first steps you need to take if you plan to launch or improve the online community you organize.

Part 1 - Getting Started