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Fair Trade and Social Media

by Scott Overpeck on November 4, 2011

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Last weekend I spoke at Green Festival at the LA Convention Center. It was scheduled as a panel discussion but the other panelist did not show and so the moderator asked me to speak instead (30 minutes prior to scheduled start time) and so I prepared some quick remarks and followed it up with a Q&A.  Below are my bullet points.

  • Most of you probably are at this talk right now to hear “ten easy steps to media guru-dom”
  • Thats BS. It doesn’t exist.
  • The keys to success in , advocacy, campaigning, fund development, etc are the same keys that have always been there adapted to a new communications platform
  • Fair Trade and businesses should do better than their “less enlightened” brethren.
  • …tone…messaging
  • Don’t tell me your prices are not competitive. What does a coach bag cost?
  • Integrate, integrate, integrate. How do you determine where to route incoming phone calls? emails? Mail? etc?
  • Establishing a workflow
  • who is your audience
  • where do they “live”
  • what do they care about
  • how much time do you have?
  • what digital resources do you have

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Donald Bren in FORBES on THINK Together

by Scott Overpeck on September 22, 2011

Proud to work with these guys:

In my opinion, the person doing the best job improving education in California is Randy Barth, President and CEO of THINK TOGETHER in Santa Ana, Calif. He is the most dedicated and innovative professional in K-12 tutoring and mentoring education in California.

Donald Bren in FORBES

Exciting new partnerships

August 23, 2011

You may have noticed we have been very quiet for a while on the blog. We are currently working with two new clients getting some projects put together in both the web and social enterprise spaces. Cannot share with you too many details right now, but I did want to introduce you to Thomas House [...]

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June’s OC Partnership Homeless Service Provider’s Forum

June 6, 2011

I attend the monthly OC Partnership Homeless Service Providers Forum. This month the discussion was incredibly interesting and brought up a lot of questions for a lot of attendees, I believe. I will be tackling it in two posts. This first part will be my notes with little commentary. The second will be my expanded [...]

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Jeff on Cultivate11

May 20, 2011

Our writer, Jeff Jordan, wrote about his experience at Cultivate11. The idea of story is specifically crucial in the area of nonprofit work. If you are part of an organization making a difference in somebodies life or community it is the stories coming out of it that will drive interest in your organization. People actually [...]

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Cultivate11

May 9, 2011

This last week, Jeff and I made it out to Cultivate11, a non profit communications conference. I was speaking on a couple panels and leading an offsite.  It was a great experience and I am grateful to the Cultivate team for having me out. Several posts will follow but I wanted to start with some [...]

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Winners

April 22, 2011

The winners have been notified by email. If you did not win, please head to the Cultivate website and sign up using ‘insider11′ for a discount. Additionally, a huge thanks to Random Number Generator and Cultivate for making this contest happen!

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Cultivate 11 Ticket Giveaway

April 19, 2011

*update: winner will be announced Thursday*   The good folks at Cultivate (the great non profit communications conference we talked about a while ago) have generously given us a few tickets to give away. If you want to attend please fill out the following form. Winners will be picked at random. Loading…

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How to survive the budget crunch

March 4, 2011
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First and foremost, a disclaimer: This is not a political post.   We are not debating or discussing the proper role of government or picking sides in any budget debates. We are evaluating the landscape in which we all find ourselves in and trying to determine a wise course of action. We have been receiving [...]

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How to grow your organization on a shoestring budget

February 7, 2011

Here at Intersection, we love any organization or company with big dreams that wants to change the world. And we’ve been priveleged to have many opportunities to help bring those dreams into reality through our work in strategy, new media, fundraising and event production. That said, big dreams do not keep the lights on at [...]

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