March 3rd – Raleigh, NC
1804 Hillsborough St
Raleigh, NC 27605
This course offers a conversational approach to moving your nonprofit organization into Facebook and Causes. We will be covering an array of Facebook/Causes topics specifically for non-profits including:
Why Facebook? Why Now? Learn just how big Facebook has become and how it can be leveraged to raise funds, awareness, [...]
Posted February 16th, 2010 in Marketing, Non-Profit, Social Media, Technology, Web. Tagged: 3rd party, Causes, Charity, class, convio integration, donor segmentation, facebook, fan pages, fundraising, kintera integration, Non-Profit, nonprofit, Raleigh, social graph, volunteers.
Earlier this week, a friend of mine asked me to give some job search pointers to a young woman who had recently been laid off from her non-profit position. I get similar requests from folks on a regular basis due to my position as a non-profit executive, but also because of my early roots in [...]
Posted January 30th, 2010 in Non-Profit, Uncategorized. Tagged: Charity, charlotte, cover letter, employment, Hands on Network, Idealist, job hunting, job search, jobs, Jobs for a Change, Lupus Foundation of America, Non-Profit, nonprofit, NPO, Opportunity Knocks, Phoenixfire Solutions, resume, Volunteermatch, volunteers, Wild Apricot.
Who’s Using Facebook in Charlotte? Infographic of Daily Usage as of 1/8/2010.
John Fuller is the President of Phoenixfire Solutions and a professional with more than ten years experience in IT, seven years in non-profit, and four years in design. Taking his love for all things technological and all things artistic, Phoenixfire Solutions came into being. [...]
Posted January 11th, 2010 in Marketing, Social Media. Tagged: charlotte, Demographics, facebook, Infographics.
As a designer I see things everyday that inspire me in some way or another. Sometimes it just clever use of whitespace. It seems though more than anything I tend to be inspired by music. Different types for different projects obviously. For instance today its Punk/Ska, to help me push through some monotonous page edits. What inspires you?
If music inspires you more, [...]
Posted December 16th, 2009 in Design. Tagged: Design.
A colleague sent me an article today that I wanted to expand on a bit and share with you. The post was for the “Diary of a Social Venture Start-up” over at Good.is. The point of the article is pretty straight forward and something I’m sure most of us would agree with perception is important, [...]
Posted September 28th, 2009 in Design, Marketing, Non-Profit, Social Media, Uncategorized. Tagged: Design, Diary of a Social Venture Start-up, facebook, fundraising, good.is, listening, Marketing, Non-Profit, sm concepts, Social Media, social media statistics, twitter, visual thinking.
During the month of August we will offer a free logo to one of the follwoing non-profit organizations, and you’re going to help us decide. Read a bit about the non-profit organizations below, and vote for your favorite. The organization with the most votes by August 31st at 11:59pm EST will win. Additional information about the [...]
Posted August 18th, 2009 in Design, Logo4Good, Marketing, Non-Profit. Tagged: community engagement, Design, Habitat for Humanity, logo, Logo4Good, Marketing, Non-Profit, The Parish School, Theatre Charlotte, Triple J Grate Dane Rescue.
Updated – Vote Now
Here at Phoenixfire Solutions, we believe that good design shouldn’t be relegated to for-profit companies only. Some times all a non-profit needs is a little help for their idea to come to life. With this notion in mind, we’ve created our Logo4Good program. During the month of August we will offer a [...]
Posted July 30th, 2009 in Design, Logo4Good, Marketing, Non-Profit. Tagged: Design, logo, Logo4Good, Marketing, Non-Profit.
On Wednesday the 29th at 9:00 pm the Phillip Morris plant in Concord closed. Many would say that it is a great victory for the general health of people everywhere, and more than anything else a sign of the times with North Carolina’s new restaurant smoking ban on its way in. I think one of [...]
Posted July 30th, 2009 in Non-Profit. Tagged: Charitable Giving, charlotte, Mathcing Gifts, Non-Profit, Phillip Morris.
We asked a few friends (49) what social media information they wanted to know more about. While some of the answers are not surprising at all, especially given our subset of polled. (Social Media Concepts, Online Marketing , and Community Engagement rounding out the top 3). I was a bit shocked that listening fell so [...]
Posted July 10th, 2009 in Social Media. Tagged: community engagement, domino's, guitar, listening, Marketing, sm concepts, Social Media, twitter, twtpoll, united airlines.
This week there was a decision made here in Mecklenburg County, NC that most people probably didn’t even hear about and if they did, it most likely didn’t even cause a stir. But for the “little guy” non-profits in the area, it was a victorious week.
On Tuesday evening, the Mecklenburg County Commissioners voted unanimously [...]
Posted July 9th, 2009 in Non-Profit. Tagged: charlotte, community health charities, earth share north carolina, employee giving, fundraising, mecklenburg county, Non-Profit.