Be it ever so humble… Welcome to Clairification’s new home! You’re all invited – so don’t be a stranger! To make sure you can come and go as you please, those who’ve bomarked the old homesite may want to get the fresh new set of keys here. I’ll be taking a little holiday [to settle…
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Let’s take it from the T O P. D O C A R E about what you’re trying to achieve. Get it opened, read and acted on. Remember your primary purposes: (1) Get it open; (2) Get it read; (3) Get the donation. Do not – I repeat, do not!—deviate from these primary purposes. I’m…
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Your money can become my sandwich What I learned from a street beggar* (see “Note” below). Last week a street beggar — aka panhandler — asked me for money and I gave it to her. I don’t usually do this because I wonder how the money may be used and tend to give, instead, to…
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Yesterday I guest posted on Windmill Networking: WARNING: 8 Clues Your Nonprofit’s Social Media Implementation and Measurement Strategy is Bogus. I encourage you to read the full post. It’s about how so many nonprofits really don’t have a clue why they’re doing social media at all. And, if they are doing it, they may have…
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Who am I? What am I doing here? Who am I and what am I doing here? Ever feel that way about social media? You’re not alone. For many of us in the nonprofit sector it’s still a frontier. It’s tempting for us non-pioneer types to just want to call the whole thing off. Waagh!…
DetailsHere comes this month’s *SMIT (Single Most Important Thing I have to tell you): The foundation of all fundraising and nonprofit marketing is relationships. Thanks to Katya Andreson for great inspiration in 6 tried and true truths about my work . I told her I was going to post these fundamentals above my computer –…
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