Past webinars

Although social media has revolutionised how not-for-profits communicate online with their supporters and donors, online fundraising tools like "Donate Now" buttons and e-newsletters are essential building blocks to a successful social media strategy. This webinar highlights over 50 online fundraising and e-newsletter best practices that can be easily implemented at a very low cost in order to quickly improve your not-for-profit's online fundraising, e-newsletter and social media campaigns.

Many not-for-profits are now using Facebook to build a community of supporters for their cause and engage their audience. Join this webinar to learn how to create a Facebook content strategy, how to increase likes to your page and how to engage your fans with your content.

Mobile apps are taking off in a huge way. Every industry is looking to take advantage of the mass adoption of smartphone technology and not-for-profits are looking to do the same. In this presentation you will learn how to effectively plan your needs and deliverables when it comes to developing mobile apps for your organisation. It will provide some insights and thoughts on how successful mobile app developers achieve this.

Mobile can be used as a way to make connections with your audience, so that one-time donors become lifetime supporters. As the mobile trends continue to grow, your donors will soon come to expect mobile capabilities from your organisation. Learn how to prepare for the mobile wave, so you’re ready to tap into the power of mobile.

In this webinar, you will learn how to leverage the power of the most popular and successful forms of Facebook Ads, Facebook Offers and Location-Based Marketing on Facebook – and which suits your organisation the best for immediate results!

What is Web Experience Management? It's all about building secure, killer websites that are tailored and personalised to user experience.

Hear directly from a not-for-profit organisation on their journey in moving to the Cloud in this case study presentation.

Oh not-for-profit social media warriors, it’s time to hone your skills, learn new moves and take one step closer to the mastery of your art. In this training session you will learn about techniques to make your content cut through the noise, the fine art of scheduling posts and the social media toolkit every not-for-profit should know about. Be prepared. Speaker biography: Ben Teoh grew up on a steady diet of subtitled martial arts films, Saturday morning cartoons and Power Rangers. As Content and Community Coordinator at Connecting Up, he spends his time writing newsletters and articles, building the Connecting Up online community and teaching other not-for-profits how to use online technology to make a difference.

The mobile revolution is changing the way organisations work and interact with their audience. It adds another channel to the multi-channel world where our not-for-profits exist. This creates opportunities and changes the ways we can communicate, market, fundraise and provide services. This presentation will look at the range of effects that mobile connectivity has on the not-for-profit sector and examples of how organisations from Australia and abroad are learning about using mobile. It will also provide guidelines for approaching the integration of this global trend into your work. Speaker biography: John is a not-for-profit technology educator and strategist helping not-for-profits for over 20 years. He provides advice, educate and write about the effective use of technology in not-for-profit organisations. An additional video on the speaker panel featuring John Kenyon and Beth Kanter is included in this package. 

This session will look objectively at the technology developments that have occurred over the last 2 years which are transforming the not-for-profit landscape. Covering topics such as Cloud computing, workforce mobility, business intelligence and CRM, Tony will present a glimpse into the future with his view of the “modern not-for-profit”, combined with real world examples of how CEOs have already transformed their organisations through the use of technology. Speaker biography: Tony Nissen is the National Solutions Manager for R & G Technologies and has consulted to some of Australia’s largest and most successful not-for-profits. R & G Technologies is one of Australia’s leading IT consultancy and Cloud service firms specialising in the not-for-profit sector.