Go Above And Beyond With Vyond

For most of us (nonprofits included), the thought of creating and editing a video, especially an animated video, is a daunting task that requires a ton of time and money. However, videos are a great tool to have in the promotional toolbox for fundraising, program advertising, and stakeholder engagement. They are fun, simple, and entertaining, resulting in a richer understanding of your program’s impact. Now that video generating tools are becoming more widespread, there are ...

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Using MailChimp Segments for Frequent Targeting

So, you’ve got an email you send out to the same people frequently. Now that you have your tags in place, you can easily create segments so that you don’t have to do the and/or segmentation each time. The first thing you’ll do is go to your audience and click Manage Contacts. In that dropdown, you’ll see “Segments” — select that. Then select “Create Segment.” Now you’re ready to enter your criteria: Here, I’m selecting ...

Briefly–Still Working At It After 400+ Years

Around 1600 Shakespeare wrote about brevity being the soul of wit in Hamlet. Roughly 400 years later,  phone text messaging and Twitter limited us to the number of characters one could post. The fact that Twitter has expanded their character limit and most phone messaging software either provide capacious limits or automatically parse messages across multiple texts it something of a testament to our inability to briefly encapsulate our meaning. Yet there is a growing ...