Okay, if social media is not broke but our approach is, and there are some reasons why it is broken, what can we do about it? Good question, here’s 5 possible ways to change your approach to social media: 1. Draw the lines between “soft benefits” and “hard...

Previously, I wrote about how “Social Media Isn’t Broken, Our Approach Is” and used some findings from the latest Annual Nonprofit Social Network Benchmark Report by Blackbaud, NTEN and Common Knowledge to back it up. Today I want to discuss why I think our approach to...

“Social media isn’t for us”. “We haven’t seen any results from social media yet”. “It’s all just a bunch of noise”. And my favourite, “Why do I care about what people are eating for dinner?”. Sound familiar? They are all things...

I woke up on April 21st expecting to see huge murals, row after row of posters and not be able to walk a block without seeing something about the Kony2012 Campaign’s “Cover the Night” initiative. I, much like those who were leading the campaign I imagine, woke up only to be...

I had the privilege of attending the AFP International Conference here in Vancouver just a couple weeks back and found it… interesting. I was there with my work with the Seacrest Foundation so it was great to learn more about what is out there from a technology/vendor perspective, meet...

[<a href="http://storify.com/bradyjosephson/afpmeet-2012-vancity" target="_blank">View the story "#afpmeet 2012 #vancity" on Storify</a>]<br /> <h1>#afpmeet 2012 #vancity</h1> <h2>A curation of tweets, thoughts, links and pics from my #afpmeet 2012...

I was lucky to do some “little communications consulting” for Education Generation and one of the recommendations I made was to develop a communications schedule. After I realized I never had one myself while at Opportunity International Canada I suggested a...

A curation of my best tweets and links from the week that was. Enjoy! View the story “Tweets of the Week January 10 – 17″ on Storify ShareShare

With 2012 well underway, I was taking a look back at the year at re: charity and the blog. It was my first year of blogging and I have learned a great deal. I hope to be a bit more consistent in 2012 and find ways to get others more involved. That being said, here were the top 5 posts of...

Good post awhile back from the good folks at For Impact called “If it is important, do it every day.” that got me thinking in terms of fundraising, what is important and how could I do it every day? So here it goes, 5 things you should do every day (and some ideas on how you can do it). 1....