Earlier this month, we successfully launched our second cohort for advanced digital policy practitioners. These Cohorts are designed to complement our Emerging Leader Cohorts and address more advanced practices and topics, designed to align with the goals of more experienced practitioners. As with all our cohorts, our overall objective is to create a space where we collectively explore policy leadership themes, share our experience and knowledge, and work through policy challenges.
It’s a blast any time we get to work with the great folks @NTEN, so I was super stoked to be invited to share Aspiration’s take on The Opportunity for Good in the Cloud at the The Nonprofit Cloud Summit
The event is being livestreamed for those who want to play remotely. You can also follow the #npcloud tag on twitter.
At the San Francisco Nonprofit Technology Center, we had an awesome lesson based conversation with Lena from Twitter about the basic and behind the scenes look at Twitter.
What are your recommendations for someone just starting out on Twitter?
“The Twitter adoption curve is very steep”
- Lena
1) Follow a few people. If your time line is empty, you have no reason to stay on Twitter. (What is a Time Line?)
On July 26, we went to Modesto to support a small grassroots nonprofit, Congregations Building Community, start an email newsletter for their organization. They are doing amazing work in the community and want a place to share it with their supporters.
A critical part of starting or sending an email newsletter is testing it in various places across the internet. This can be a time consuming step, but is really important to make sure emails are properly getting to people.
A Publishing Matrix is a tool we use to help nonprofits create an organizational process for their online communications. Basically, it is a grid that lays out the content an organization publishes online as well as the channels where the content is published. Think of it as the skeleton of your communication’s plan. Here’s a quick view of a sample Publishing Matrix:
Email discussion lists are vibrant and useful for techies in the nonprofit technology space. But, are they still relevant to introduce as a communication tool for people who do not currently use them, especially with the boom of social networks?
What is an Email Discussion List?
