Our Favorite February Blog Posts
We hope you enjoy reading some of the blog posts that helped us most in February. From fundraising advice to reading how Google Maps is fighting poverty, we were inspired to do more. Hopefully these posts will inspire you as well.
Fourteen of the blog posts that taught us the most us in February:
1. Does your nonprofit’s website suck? That’s just one of the 10 Reasons Your Nonprofit Should NOT Be on Facebook according to nonprofit marketing pro John Haydon.
2. With all the time and money we put into fundraising, Nonprofit Hub challenged us to calculate our ROI – then offered 5 Ways to Get More Out of Your Next Fundraising Event.
3. When hiring an Executive Director, About.com’s clever Joanne Fritz reminded us to focus on their fundraising skills in Executive Directors and Fundraising: Not Always a Perfect Match.
4. And on the topic of fundraising, fundraising coach Marc Pitman offered wise counsel in 3 Myths of Email Fundraising, stressing that nonprofits should not get lulled into believing all fundraising can be done online.
5. Echoing this message, more online fundraising myths were debunked by Hubspot in 14 Inbound Marketing Myths Nonprofits Should Stop Believing, like donors are older/not online!
6. Still, the benefits of online marketing are huge, if the marketing is done well. 3 Online Fundraising Reports You Should Read Right Now by always-helpful Kivi Miller provided advice on how to do just that.
7. With all this talk of online marketing, nonprofit maven Beth Kanter helped us prioritize where to spend our time in How Much Time Should Your Nonprofit Invest In Different Social Media Channels?
8. Great fundraising news for the nonprofit community – How Nonprofit Fundraising Performed in 2013 by npENGAGE gave us all the details.
9. I thought I knew how to use Twitter then I read this #nptech shared with us lots of really clever ideas on how nonprofits can use twitter better. We’re grateful to nonprofit blogger Daniel Melbye, for writing this post, and Stay Classy for making sure we saw it.
10. We know you love infographics as much as we do. Hope you caught last month’s one on Nonprofit Strategic Restructuring, Collaboration Best Practices shared by Tech Impact.
11. We all need help when it comes to grant writing, which makes us especially grateful for The Ulimate Guide to Nonprofit Grant Research by Bloomerang Tech.
12. Looking for inspiration? Forbes supplied it with their uplifting post Could Google Maps Help End Poverty?.
13. Stuck with Impossible Goals? Here’s Help! by fundraising expert Gail Perry provided thoughtful advice on how to get things done; top among them – nonprofit staff should have the guts to go to their board and ask for help when they need it!
14. And finally, game changing news for the nonprofit community came in First-Ever One-Stop Charity Rating Site Is Like Yelp For Nonprofits by Huffington Post Impact