Online Marketing Best Practices from the Obama Campaign

M+R Strategic Services just released a report outlining the strategies and best practices from the Obama new media campaign and how those practices should be applied to nonprofits and their online marketing and fundraising efforts. It’s a great read. Here’s the lead in paragraph:
The best news for nonprofits? The most successful new media strategies for [...]

Cool Flash Videos That Explain Social Media

Cool Flash videos that explain various social media tools like Facebook connect, and Twitter.

Salvation Army’s Online Marketing Efforts – Innovative, but not strategic

So I’m impressed by the creativity of the Salvation Army of Chicago’s marketing efforts. You can see their YouTube vide where they have Chicagoans helping them play a Christmas carol using the SA bells, and their online donation kettle.
They get a gold star for innovation, but no stars for effectiveness. Why? They did not develop [...]

Online Marketing 101 Training at Environmental Working Group

Online Marketing 101 Training presentation for Environmental Working Group.

Online List Generation and Donor Cultivation

I’ve been busy building an online services team here at OMP, but wanted to share a presentation that I gave along with one of my colleagues here at OMP focused on how to use online marketing to build a donor list, how to eliminate issues with list acquisition on your website, and how to create [...]

Getting Bloggers to Help Raise Funds for Your Nonprofit

I was initially going to just write an article about why non-profits might want to use Gather.com — which has been described as a “MySpace for grownups” — to find volunteers, and then I found this nifty tidbit in their press release section:
Gather.com bloggers can earn cash or Gather PointsTM that are redeemable for [...]