Category Archives: Strategic Communications

How to create a nonprofit communications strategy: A preview

All social profit organization’s communicate. If you have brochures, a website, annual reports, you are communicating. But are you being strategic? Do you have a nonprofit communications strategy? This post is the first in a series on how to create your nonprofit communications strategy. Over the summer, I’ll publish a series of posts to guideContinue Reading

I’m speaking at Social Capital Conference #SoCapOtt

On June 1, I’ll be speaking at the annual Social Capital Conference in Ottawa. In the 90s, I lived in Ottawa for three years and I thought that I might stay there so I love having the chance to go back. Here’s the description for my session that follows keynote speaker Gini Dietrich at 9:30Continue Reading

Proceed with caution when using free services

I can hear him laughing all the way from the shores of Paradise Lake outside St. Clement’s, Ontario. Long before anyone knew about the cloud, Callum McKee, the general manage of Outdoor Services for the Kitchener-Waterloo YMCA, was suspicious of online services-especially free ones. His primary concern was the loss of ownership of the content.Continue Reading