Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants on Learning, Marketing, Fundraising, Etc.

It's my turn this week to host the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants and I can say without a doubt this was the hardest week to pull together because there were so many posts to choose from. But here goes. . .

On Learning and Professional Development

• Paul Jones of Cause-Related Marketing shares his tips on how he keeps learning as a cause marketer.

• Elisa Ortiz of the Nonprofit Congress Blog took my advice this week to learn by creating lists. In this post, she shares what she did and didn't learn at a workshop on how to facilitate meetings.

On Marketing, Fundraising and Presentations

• Beth Dunn of Small Dots takes a look at a new service, called Good2gether, that puts nonprofit events and content into an array of online media partners.

• Katya Andresen of Getting to the Point writes about the Piggy-back Principle and suggests strategies for aligning your nonprofit marketing messages with what's already happening in the world.

• Nancy Schwartz of Getting Attention has an incredible nonprofit marketing opportunity for you.

• Don't Tell the Donor shares he/she (we don't know for sure) wrote for The Nonprofit Times called "Our Donors Are Talking, What Are We Afraid Of?"

• Kivi Leroux Miller has an excellent post on how to improve your PowerPoint presentations using two great books--Beyond Bullet Points and Presentation Zen.

And from Sam Davidson of Cool People Care comes this reminder to take a break from technology and enjoy the gifts of the "real world," while Sherri Garrity of Make it Count has a nice post on 80/20 communications.

Thanks to everyone for your submissions this week! And remember, if you want to sign up for regular updates when the Carnival is posted, you can get the Carnival feed here.