Big Duck’s team of experts regularly offers workshops and trainings and speaks at conferences. Our topics are always focused on nonprofit communications. If you’d like to arrange a workshop or training, please contact us here. Where possible, the workshops listed below include links that will allow you to register directly through the organization hosting the event.


Brandraising™: One organization, many channels

February 10th, 2010, 12:00 p.m.
As you expand the tools you use to communicate online and off and staff's roles change, how do you ensure you're all speaking with one voice? Based on Sarah Durham's book "Brandraising: How to Raise Money and Increase Visibility through Smart Communications", (Jossey-Bass, 2009) this session, facilitated by Sarah Durham, will link vision, mission, branding and beyond, with a particular focus on websites, social media, and other online channels fundraisers can use to cultivate, solicit and steward donor relationships. (More)
brandraising, capacity-building, positioning

10 Social Media Practices Your Nonprofit Should Know + Do

February 18, 2010, 2:00 a.m- 3:30 p.m.
You've got your Facebook page up, your Executive Director is blogging and your tweeting up a storm. This is a webinar, presented by Farra Trompeter, that goes a bit beyond the basics of social media, and offers ten practical tips, tricks, and tactics to keep in mind as you navigate your way through the social media universe. (More)
capacity-building, online, social media

Brandraising™: One organization, many channels

February 25, 2010 2:00 p.m.
Brandraising weaves together best practices from for-profit strategic communications and the nonprofit sector to create a new model for effective nonprofit communications. It integrates vision and mission, brand development, new and old channels, the staff and board's role in communications, and more. This webinar, led by Sarah Durham Principal and Founder of Big Duck, will explain the principles of brandraising and how people who work with nonprofit organizations can apply them to make their work more effective and a better use of organizational resources. (More)
brandraising, capacity-building, positioning

Intro to Social Media

March 24, 2010, 9:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
MySpace... Facebook... Digg... Twitter... With all the buzz about social networks and social media, it is hard to know where to start. In this workshop, Elizabeth Ricca, will highlight the most popular social media tools, review demographics, explore some examples, and share a process to help you build a social media strategy — including how to listen to "manage" your brand. (More)
capacity-building, online, positioning, social media

Brandraising™: One organization, many channels

April 4, 2010, 1:30 p.m.
As you expand the tools you use to communicate online and off and staff's roles change, how do you ensure you're all speaking with one voice? Based on Sarah Durham's book "Brandraising: How to Raise Money and Increase Visibility through Smart Communications", (Jossey-Bass, 2009) this session, facilitated by Sarah Durham, will link vision, mission, branding and beyond, with a particular focus on websites, social media, and other online channels fundraisers can use to cultivate, solicit and steward donor relationships. (More)
brandraising, capacity-building, positioning

Brandraising™: Critique

May 5, 2010, 9:30 a.m. -12:30 p.m.
Are your communications materials helping you raise money, conduct outreach, and establish your organization optimally? Based on Sarah Durham's book, "Brandraising: How to Raise Money and Increase Visibility Through Smart Communications" (Jossey-Bass 2009) this workshop will give you a chance to get detailed feedback on your print, video and online communications. (More)
brandraising, capacity-building, messaging

Brandraising™: One organization, many channels

June 11, 2010
As you expand the tools you use to communicate online and off and staff's roles change, how do you ensure you're all speaking with one voice? Based on Sarah Durham's book "Brandraising: How to Raise Money and Increase Visibility through Smart Communications", (Jossey-Bass, 2009) this session, facilitated by Sarah Durham, will link vision, mission, branding and beyond, with a particular focus on websites, social media, and other online channels fundraisers can use to cultivate, solicit and steward donor relationships. (More)
brandraising, capacity-building, positioning

Past Workshops

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