Past webinars

Join us for #GivingTuesday as we talk about how crowdfunding can be used to raise awareness, community engagement and funding for a worthy cause, with case studies from our community.

Infographics are a powerful tool that will allow you to share information in a simple and engaging format. Whether you are sharing your business purpose, presenting statistical data or marketing a product or service, Infographics will allow people to understand your business quickly and clearly. Key learning objectives: Overview - What infographics are  Identify the different types of infographics  How to simplify your services using Infographics Unspoken Pitch design hacks Q&A About the presenter - Scott Lee

Everywhere you turn today it seems that everyone is talking about social media, online presence and digital fundraising. Sometimes it sounds like we can do the whole marketing and fundraising thing online. But without a strong brand, a clear strategy and consistent messaging to the right target markets you may be simply be filling screens and creating noise. Your clients, customers, donors, volunteers and partners need both an off-line and online experience of your brand and your mission in order to build a long-term relationship with your cause.

Volunteers are important partners of any not-for-profit organisation. They serve by contributing time, talent or treasure. A satisfied volunteer can become a significant donor. Volunteers can share their experiences and create positive word-of-mouth for your organisation. As they are such a valuable resource, you need to ensure that you recruit the right volunteers and have strategies to retain them.  Volunteer Recruitment and Management will provide an over-arching general guide to volunteer recruitment and management. It will equip you to identify actions in the development of a detailed volunteer management action plan for your not-for-profit organisation and to improve a start-up or existing program.

Crowdfunding is about building your network, breaking away from gatekeepers, overcoming territorial barriers and getting that cash to help launch your passion project or great idea into reality.  Key learning objectives:

Are you a new board member, or maybe you are considering becoming a board member, or maybe you are in a role required to implement and/or report to a Board in a not-for-profit environment? However, you want to get it right, and not cross any boundaries.  But what are these boundaries? ... You need to know.  Then consider participating in this webinar.  Key learning objectives

This presentation gives an overview of the features of Office 365, explores the benefits other organisations have gained from making the move to the Cloud and identifies factors that organisations should consider when planning the move to Office 365.

Learn how to best manage your responsibilities as the IT contact for your organisation.

With YouTube for Nonprofits now available in Australia and New Zealand, register for this webinar to find out more about how it can help your organisation.

This webinar is ideal for organisations who would like to learn more about what SharePoint is and does, and provides valuable insights and best-practice tips, crucial to a successful SharePoint implementation.

This highly interactive webinar will focus on demonstrating features of Office 365

Grants are a very important source of funds for most not-for-profits. Billions of dollars are provided every year by local, state and federal governments, as well as philanthropic, community and corporate trusts and foundations. The trick is knowing how to set yourself up for success. As grants are such a valuable resource, you need to ensure that you use your time wisely and that the fit is right between the project for which you want funds and the grants program funding parameters.

Let's face it... the right corporate partners can make all the difference to the calibre of events you run, the programs your organisation delivers and the kind of talent you can attract on staff. The key words here are the ‘right' corporate partners. How is your corporate sponsorship strategy coming along?

Microsoft Office 365 in the Cloud offers many not-for-profits significant benefits. This presentation gives an overview of the features of Office 365, explores the benefits other organisations have gained from making the move to the Cloud and identify factors that organisations should consider when planning the move to Office 365.

Microsoft Office 365 in the Cloud offers many not-for-profits significant benefits. This presentation gives an overview of the features of Office 365, explores the benefits other organisations have gained from making the move to the Cloud and identify factors that organisations should consider when planning the move to Office 365.

For many not-for-profit organisations the annual report represents a significant investment which too easily fails to “sell the cause” to potential supporters. This webinar will provide you with specific, practical steps to help you streamline the production of your next annual report and at the same time create an effective sales and marketing tool.  The webinar will include some great case studies and production templates. Importantly, it will provide a framework for you to build a professional document which sells your story and demonstrates the difference your organisation makes to the communities you serve. Key learning outcomes: 

Since the emergence of social media as a marketing method, it has been suggested that email marketing is no longer relevant or effective – this is not so! Used correctly, email marketing is an incredibly valuable component of your digital marketing toolkit to communicate with and encourage action from your database. This webinar will cover the basics of how to set up your email marketing using MailChimp, and touch on some important considerations including Australian privacy laws and the management of contact data, and tips for managing and making the most of your ongoing email marketing. Key learning outcomes: Managing subscribers Creating email lists, groups and segments Importing subscribers Exporting subscribers Subscription forms Creating email campaigns Basic campaign set up Using templates (focus on default MailChimp template options, not custom HTML templates) Adding content Testing Scheduling and sending Results and reporting

This webinar is about how to implement SharePoint throughout your organisation.

Preparing financial reports to cater for the requirements of Board members, whose experience and financial knowledge is usually varied, can be quite daunting for many handed this task. This webinar is ideal for those with little or no bookkeeping or accounting knowledge who are keen to get a better handle on key financial reports including budgeting and cashflow options for their Board, delivered in an easy to understand presentation. We will go through the foundations of good reporting, through their key components, finishing with a short presentation on timesaving tools available through Connecting Up. If you want to ease what many consider a painful experience, register for this informative session on presenting financial reports for your Board. This webinar will help you understand the fundamentals of presenting financial reports: 

With Microsoft now donating Office 365 for Nonprofits, find out more about what it can do, and get answers to some of the most frequently asked questions.

This is a webinar that will have you saying ‘Wow! I didn’t know that’ every few moments. If you want to learn easy, unforgettable clever tips and tricks to improve the way you set up, use and extract information out of your databases; then you must attend this webinar.  A bonus is that it doesn’t matter if you don’t keep your database in Excel. You can always extract it from elsewhere, pop it into Excel and do amazing things with it in moments. You’ll learn how to cleverly use standard Excel functions that could save you hours through to days of manual work. Think of how you could better use that time. And finally, with your new database Excel expertise, you can share the tips effortlessly around your company gaining genius status. Key learning outcomes:

Microsoft Office 365 in the Cloud offers many not-for-profits significant benefits. This presentation gives an overview of the features of Office 365, explores the benefits other organisations have gained from making the move to the Cloud and identify factors that organisations should consider when planning the move to Office 365.

This webinar is ideal for organisations who would like to learn more about what SharePoint is and does, and provides valuable insights and best-practice tips, crucial to a successful SharePoint implementation.

With Microsoft now donating Office 365 for Nonprofits, find out more about what it can do, and get answers to some of the most frequently asked questions.

Participants will learn tips and tricks to ensure their website is easily found by search engines, such as Google, and rank high in the search.

Participants will be guided through components of a good website and how to measure performance using free and easy online analytics.

Participants will learn the basics of social media, channels, features and benefits, type of content and tips on social media best practices to increase engagement.

Register today for this free webinar and understand the online tools that are available to affect change and how they work, skills to utilise personal stories to inspire public support, how fundraising and advocacy efforts can be effectively combined online and more.

You've got the support of management, you've started social media accounts for your organisation and you're posting content. Now what? This presentation will help you take your organisation's social media to the next level, whether that means giving your stalled social media communities a kick-start or simply building on your recent social media successes. This presentation will include real examples and case studies, fresh social media content ideas and practical strategy templates. Tap into Kirsty's extensive social media strategy and content experience to improve your social media performance. Key learning objectives:

Fundraising, whether it be crowdfunding, pitching to investors, or applying to grants, is fundamentally about storytelling. This session will help you identify how you can use the power of storytelling to engage with supporters and rally your community to raise funds for your project. It will also help you identify how you can produce stories about your organisation without a big budget or expensive equipment.  Key learning objectives:  An overview of various types of fundraising where storytelling can be used (crowdfunding, online portals, grant applications etc)  Identifying the most powerful stories to tell which motivate donors and supporters  Understanding your audience  How to source and produce content for fundraising  Case studies Q&A  About the presenters – Mikey Leung and Natasha Akib

Understand how to get the most out of LinkedIn, the world’s biggest online professional network. In this 1 hour webinar you will understand the basics of LinkedIn, both personally and how to make the most it for your organisation. The webinar will be made up of two sections: Individuals

In this webinar Tony Nissen will highlight cloud computing technologies not-for-profit organisations of all sizes are currently leveraging to become more efficient as well as provide you with two real-world case studies of organisations who are already reaping the benefits of embracing a mobility driven strategy.

Infoxchange in partnership with Australia Post are embarking on a four year national digital literacy program with the ambitious goal of supporting more than 300,000 Australians to improve their digital skills. Register today for this free webinar and take your digital skills to the next level.

In this webinar learn the basics of crowdfunding for social cause organisations, apply crowdfuning principles to your campaign and more.

In this webinar learn how you can use the power of storytelling to engage with supporters and rally your community to raise funds for your project.

Join this free webinar and determine what services you are actually providing, how to structure your accounting system to get the information you need, how to report on the profitability of your activities and more. The webinar will highlight lessons from the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) rollout.

  Did you know over 17% of Australians and 19% of New Zealanders move each year? What percentage of your database moves on an annual basis? Do even you know what condition the data in your database is in? Cleansing your data can have an immediate impact on your business and will immediately help you to increase retention and response rates, decrease the volume of mail returned from post, and ensure that your mail is reaching your supporters. Join us as we look at a best practice approach to database cleaning and continued maintenance. This webinar has the potential to save you time, resourcing and valuable funds. Key learning outcomes:

Social Media for Nonprofits will present a webinar offering clear strategies, tactics and resources for using social media to ensure the success of not-for-profit fundraising events. If your not-for-profit is planning an upcoming gala or fundraiser, this webinar is not to be missed! Join industry experts for helpful tools for posting and promoting your upcoming event; learn how to use Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn to maximise the success of your fundraisers. Morever, find out how free scheduling, analysis and optimisation tools can help you save tons of time and work smarter, not harder. Join us for this webinar and learn:

In this free webinar on Hootsuite learn how you can monitor and engage your audience on multiple social media accounts, manage lists, messages and location, save time with scheduled posts and a lot more.

A lot of time and resources can go into managing your social media strategy, but how do you know if it is effective? Often smaller organisations lack the resources and technology to adequately measure the impact of social media. In this webinar we will explore what should be measured, how to do that cost effectively and how to report internally and externally on results. Key learning outcomes: Understanding what should be measured in social media  How to measure in a cost effective way Activity versus behaviour metrics. Whats the difference and what to measure? A social media dashboard of tools to measure with How to report return on investment About the presenter - Kate vanderVoort

Learn how to effectively plan and craft content for your Facebook page which will help you achieve your marketing and fundraising objectives in just a couple of hours a week.

Volunteers are important partners to any charitable organisation. They serve by contributing time, talent or treasure. Volunteers can also share their experiences and create a positive word of mouth in the community for your organisation. As they are a valuable resource to the organisation, you need to make sure you recruit the right volunteers and have the right strategies to retain them.  This presentation will provide an introduction to volunteer recruitment and management. It will equip you to identify actions in the development of the detailed volunteer management action plan for your charitable organisation and to improve an existing or start-up program. Key learning outcomes: 

Are you thinking of using SharePoint in your organisation but would like to know more about it first? Or maybe you already have SharePoint but unsure how to use it to its full potential? Join us as we explore three SharePoint features that you can customise to dramatically improve your team's collaboration and productivity.

Preparing financial reports to cater for the requirements of Board members, whose experience and financial knowledge is usually varied, can be quite daunting for many handed this task. This webinar is ideal for those with little or no bookkeeping or accounting knowledge who are keen to get a better handle on key financial reports including budgeting and cashflow options for their Board, delivered in an easy to understand presentation. We will go through the foundations of good reporting, through their key components, finishing with a short presentation on timesaving tools available through Connecting Up. If you want to ease what many consider a painful experience, register for this informative session on presenting financial reports for your Board. This webinar will help you understand the fundamentals of presenting financial reports: 

For many not-for-profit organisations the annual report represents a significant investment which too easily fails to “sell the cause” to potential supporters. This webinar will provide you with specific, practical steps to help you streamline the production of your next annual report and at the same time create an effective sales and marketing tool.  The webinar will include some great case studies and production templates. Importantly, it will provide a framework for you to build a professional document which sells your story and demonstrates the difference your organisation makes to the communities you serve. Key learning outcomes: 

In this webinar:  Learn the different corporate purses to tap into The key consumer and corporate trends that are pushing corporates to partner with charities The opportunities and risks A robust strategy for success Inspiring case study Readiness checklist Key learning outcome : What you need to do to be successful and how to sell this to your board

Microsoft Office 365 in the Cloud offers many not-for-profits significant benefits. This presentation gives an overview of the features of Office 365, explores the benefits other organisations have gained from making the move to the Cloud and identify factors that organisations should consider when planning the move to Office 365.

Looking for sponsorship for your next event but don't know where to begin? Join Julian Moore, Australasia’s foremost not-for-profit sponsorship practitioner in this free webinar to explore why corporates sponsor and what they look for in return.

Many advertising agencies offer their services to the not-for-profit sector pro bono. Seems attractive, but can it be of real value or can it wind up being a marriage of inconvenience.

In this webinar learn all about TechSoup New Zealand programme.

With a large proportion of not-for-profits choosing iPad's as their tablet of choice, a good collection of go-to apps is an essential part of the workplace. This webinar will show you a range of free and low-cost apps that will benefit most users to become a more efficient and 'appier worker.

A key part of what it takes to be a leader is the capacity to solve problems and there are usually lots of those in a not-for-profit environment. Many of these are complex problems. There's an important distinction between a complex and a complicated problem. Typically a complicated problem can be solved with hard work and the application of a technical expertise. Like solving a maths problem, or writing a great press release. Often what makes a problem complex is the people factor – personalities, politics and power. Key learning outcomes: This session will give you tools and a framework to support you to ramp up your talent for solving complex problems. We’ll use case studies to ensure you get a webinar that is engaging, accessible and practical.  Who should attend:

This free webinar will provide insights on how sustainability is relevant to charitable organisations. It will also describe how social, environmental and economic performances are related, identify your organisational sustainability issues and a lot more.

Since the emergence of social media as a marketing method, it has been suggested that email marketing is no longer relevant or effective – this is not so! Used correctly, email marketing is an incredibly valuable component of your digital marketing toolkit to communicate with and encourage action from your database.

This is a webinar that will have you saying ‘Wow! I didn’t know that’ every few moments. If you want to learn easy, unforgettable clever tips and tricks to improve the way you set up, use and extract information out of your databases; then you must attend this webinar.  A bonus is that it doesn’t matter if you don’t keep your database in Excel. You can always extract it from elsewhere, pop it into Excel and do amazing things with it in moments. You’ll learn how to cleverly use standard Excel functions that could save you hours through to days of manual work. Think of how you could better use that time. And finally, with your new database Excel expertise, you can share the tips effortlessly around your company gaining genius status. Key learning outcomes:

Volunteers are important partners to any not-for-profit organisation. They serve by contributing time, talent or treasure. Volunteers can also share their experiences and create a positive word of mouth in the community for your organisation. As they are a valuable resource to the organisation, you need to make sure you recruit the right volunteers and have the right strategies to retain them.  This presentation will provide an introduction to volunteer recruitment and management. It will equip you to identify actions in the development of the detailed volunteer management action plan for your not-for-profit organisation and to improve an existing or start-up program. Key learning outcomes: 

Hear stories and ideas about how technology can be incorporated into programming or services targeting youth and how technology can further help not-for-profits achieve organisational goals.

Learn how to engage your supporters by telling the story behind your fundraising campaign with practical tips and advice from StartSomeGood.

Things might have changed since you last built a website. It is now cheaper and easier to build well-designed websites that will be effective for you, your organisation, search engines and your mobile users. Make sure you go in this time with your eyes open and be aware of what is happening so you can get a website that does what you need and looks terrific. In this webinar we will go through the top 10 tips for building a new website:

Whether you are a small or large not-for-profit organisation, the use of technology is essential in the running of your programs and organisation as a whole. With limited budget, time and resources, it is even more important to implement technology correctly and effectively.  This webinar will outline a framework for implementing technology that works whatever size of organisation you are. It will cover: How to select technology How to plan implementations The people factor you need to consider outside the technology The scale and size of project may vary depending on your organisation. About the presenter - Robert Samuel