A free workshop

Learn how to capitalize on Chicago’s $11 billion tourism industry. Meet a panel of industry experts and hear about how you can attract visitors to your organization. Following the panel, get in-depth training on how to utilize social media platforms like Foursquare, SCVNGR, and Flickr to further engage the tens of millions of leisure travelers who visit Chicago each year.

Discover how to enhance your curb appeal, create an attractive and becoming atmosphere, and contribute to your neighborhood, using plants as your palette.

A free Open Forum

How has the 4-year investment in audience engagement impacted the way participating arts organizations relate to their customers?  See the numbers and hear the narratives. Learn how you can apply these ideas to your own audience engagement efforts.

Technology has accelerated the pace and reach of change. Our philanthropic community is also responding to critical questions of equity in funding programs and practices. Join your colleagues for the GIA conference in the San Francisco to explore the intersection of art, technology, and social change.

A Seminar

Your nonprofit can have the world’s greatest, interactive website, but if no one visits it, you won’t get much benefit from it! This seminar will explore the hot topic of Search Engine Optimization (SEO), and reveal many other outreach strategies - most which you may have never heard of or considered.

A Workshop

With over 100 million members, LinkedIn is the largest, most popular business networking site. Understanding the features, tools and applications of the site and developing a specific, consistent strategy will enable individuals and organizations to maximize results.

A Webinar

Although social media has revolutionized the way nonprofits get out their message to 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 nonprofit’s online fundraising, e-newsletter, and social media campaigns.

A Webinar

This webinar begins with an introduction to the Mobile Web and its rapidly increasing role in nonprofit communications and fundraising. Next the webinar covers in-detail how to easily launch a mobile website, QR Code campaigns, and group text alerts on a shoestring budget, and then moves on to explore current trends in text-to-give fundraising.

A Conference

The 2011 AMA/AMAF Nonprofit Marketing Conference will zero in on today’s marketing essentials to help you better engage your members/constituents and meet your mission-critical objectives. This cutting-edge, highly interactive conference will focus on marketing strategy, relationship management, integrating traditional and digital marketing communications, as well as breakthrough branding that will ensure continued professional and organizational growth.

A Workshop

Come listen to Eugene Carr (CEO) from Patron Technology and learn how to transform your organization’s audience-development efforts using e-mail marketing, website design, social media, and CRM, as well as ponder the future direction of technology and how it will impact arts marketing.