Crafting Great Blog Posts
We don’t often discuss here on our blog about how we actually manage our blog, so we thought we’d – of course! – write a blog post about it to help other organizations that would like to start or enhancing their…
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Telling Your Organization’s Story with Social Media
I was so pleased to recently coordinate a “Get Creative with Social Media” workshop for Volunteer Victoria, facilitated by Mandy Leith. It pleased me even more that I was able to attend the workshop with my mother, Elaine Cougler. Her adoption of…
Social Media Policies to Share
This article first appeared in Volunteer Victoria’s E-Link newsletter on March 11, 2011. Sign up for E-Link and keep current with news and information from Volunteer Victoria. When Volunteer Victoria developed its Social Media Policies a year ago we shared these widely with…
2010 Social Media Year-in-Review
I would like to thank this week’s guest blogger, Janis La Couvée, for once again sharing her insights with us. If you are at all familiar with the social media scene in Victoria, you will definitely have heard of Janis. Janis is a…
Using Social Media to Promote Events
Sincere thanks to our guest blogger Janis La Couvée for sharing her thoughts on using social media to promote events. Janis is passionate about bridging online and offline communities to effect positive social change. You can follow her on Twitter at…
Nonprofit Marketing: As easy as 1, 2, 3
A little birdie helped us out recently to learn more about nonprofit marketing. The graphic birdie image pictured above sits in the “1, 2, 3 Marketing Tree”, developed by Mills Communications Group’s founder Erica Mills, who was in Victoria in…
A Few Good Books
This post first appeared in Volunteer Victoria’s E-Link newsletter. Sign up for E-Link and keep current with news and information from Volunteer Victoria. We welcome your feedback and suggestions. With the Internet at our fingertips, we tend to look on-line for our information…
Social Media: What is it and why should I be using it? (Part 2 of 2)
As promised, this is the second and final installment of my Social Media Basics for Non Profits. My previous blog focused on Facebook and Twitter. Here, I will focus on the more visual aspects of social networking – looking at two popular social networking tools…
Twitter Seminar
Having done extensive research on Social Media over the past five months or so, I was somewhat reluctant to attend Margaret Hoegg’s beginner level presentation on Twitter. Contributing significantly to this reluctance was the fact that, of all the social…
Welcome Youth Council Volunteers!
Volunteer Victoria is pleased to welcome our new youth council volunteers to our social media team! The group first met in October to discuss how we could go about implementing social media as a part of our volunteer management…