Posts Tagged ‘annual report’

Say, thanks. | Weekly Roundup

July 16th, 2010 by Elizabeth Ricca

A weekly roundup of interesting reads from the online world of nonprofit communications. Follow me on Twitter @elizabethricca or check out my Delicious bookmarks for more noteworthy links.

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Happy Friday, Mom | Weekly Roundup

May 14th, 2010 by Elizabeth Ricca
  • Here’s hoping you and your mothers all had the happiest of Mothers’ Days. Let the celebration continue with these online fundraising tips from Frank Barry on NetWits Think Tank, inspired by the “To Mama With Love” campaign.
  • Your organization is on Facebook, with or without you. Community pages (a product of recent changes to Facebook’s structure) are popping up left and right, and while you can’t administer or delete them, you can locate them and try to link them to your official presence. Nonprofit Tech 2.0 offers a step-by-step guide.
  • How do you measure your nonprofit’s social media efforts? If the answer is, “we don’t,” you may want to check out this helpful framework posted on Beth’s Blog.
  • Activate (or is it slactivate?) your armchair supporters through social media with these suggestions from Geoff Livingston.
  • Do you still print your annual report? Consider an online version—good for the trees; good for your bottom line. Check out the Humane Society’s recently-released report for inspiration.

A weekly roundup of interesting reads from the online world of nonprofit communications. Follow me on Twitter @elizabethricca or check out my Delicious bookmarks for more noteworthy links.

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The Annual Report is Dead: Long live the Annual Report!

January 19th, 2010 by Sarah Durham

If your fiscal year is the calendar year, chances are, someone in your office is thinking about your annual report right around now. Or are they?

The February 2010 issue of Print Magazine features an article called “The Incredible Shrinking Annual Report” by Liza Featherstone. (I’d link to it here, but the good people at Print don’t offer their content online. Maybe that’s why the magazine is still called Print??)

In the piece, Ms. Featherstone talks about how the business of producing corporate annual reports has essentially withered and died- leaving a wake of writers, designers and printers looking for work. Before 2007, explains Ms. Featherstone, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) required shareholders to be mailed an annual report- but after 2007, the could be posted online.  Trees were saved (yay!), jobs were lost (boo!). (more…)

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Online excellence ahoy! | Weekly Roundup

September 18th, 2009 by Elizabeth Ricca
  • If you’ve spent any time in the nonprofit blogosphere this week, you’ve probably gotten wind of this post by marketing guru Seth Godin, in which he slams nonprofits for their failure to show up at the social media table. Needless to say, this prompted a good deal of vigorous conversation, like this post from the Chronicle of Philanthropy’s Give and Take column. What do you think? Do you agree that the nonprofit sector isn’t moving quickly enough to adopt and adapt to the social web?
  • The Salvation Army is going digital this year with an online-only annual report. Instead of a printed book, they’ve created an attractive, interactive microsite. Are there any print communications your nonprofit produces that could be replaced with lower-cost online versions?
  • There’s a new donor in town: the Web 2.0 donor. An interesting post from Nonprofit Tech 2.0 blog describes some characteristics of Donor 2.0. Is your nonprofit thinking about ways to reach and retain this new generation of nonprofit supporters?
  • A New York Times Op-Ed from last weekend argues that Twitter and its ilk are poor tools for expressing big ideas. The topic for the post was health care, but it’s an interesting point for nonprofits as well: perhaps trying to express your mission in sound bytes is not only difficult, it’s unproductive. What have you found?
  • This post from Katya Andresen on common mistakes nonprofits make in social media is just one of many excellent resources from the Case Foundation’s Gear Up for Giving series. The series started up this week, and if you’re new or newish to social media, it’s worth a few minutes to check out the tutorials, free webinars, and other tools for getting started in social media.
  • And because it’s Friday, if you feel (as I do) that there aren’t enough seafaring scallawags in your day to day life, change your Facebook language to pirate English in celebration of Pirate Day tomorrow. Don’t just share that link to your new website, “blabber t’ yer mates”. Arrr.

A weekly roundup of interesting reads from the online world of nonprofit communications. Check out my Delicious bookmarks for more noteworthy links.

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