Digital Strategy for Nonprofits, Advocacy, and Political Campaigns 2.0

Digital Strategy for Nonprofits, Advocacy, and Political Campaigns 2.0 We’ve reached a point where consistent digital playbooks of the last decade are broken. Across the board, I see people grappling with significant pieces of digital programs. Email deliverability and engagement are down for many orgs. Social media feels more unwieldy than ever. Which platform now? […]
Letting Go of Brainstorms and shifting to Creative and Strategic Planning.

I, and probably you, have believed deeply in the power of brainstorms. I believed so much that I made it part of the initial loop of the Digital Engagement Cycle. The core Brainstorming and Planning to get your digital strategy going. But it’s always been hard to let go of how strange it was when […]
3 Pillars of Organizational Digital Strategy — Overcoming Barriers and Supercharging Your Organization

3 Pillars of Organizational Digital Strategy: Strategy, Capacity, and Infrastructure.
Digital Engagement Cycle

When I first wrote “The Digital Plan” I called the Digital Engagement Cycle the “The Digital Planning Engagement Cycle” as a clever use of the title. But to simplify things since we’ve updated to just The Digital Engagement Cycle. Here is a text breakdown and a video explainer. The Digital Engagement Cycle is critical to […]
3 Pillars of Organizational Digital Strategy

After more than a decade working on digital content, strategy, and organizing for a wide range of nonprofits, political campaigns, and civic groups; I see a consistent pattern emerge of three barriers to true organizational-level digital growth: strategy, capacity, and infrastructure. Currently, for far too many organizations these barriers or weaknesses work to tear down or slow down organizations. The inverse is true when you develop strategy, capacity, and infrastructure together organizations thrive.