by Heather Pubols

The webinar training for marketing and communications staff working for missions organizations continues in 2024 in winter and spring. These are free to anyone who is a Missio Nexus member or part of a Missio Nexus member organization. A small fee is all that is required for those not in Missio Nexus to attend.

• Leverage Your Website to Reach the Nations – Thursday | January 11, 2024 | 2:00pm EST – Presented by Cole Shiflet of Accelerate Web Growth. Every second, there are over 63,000 searches on Google. Every day, there are over 5.6 billion searches on Google. Far too often, Christian ministries get left behind in the search results. In this webinar, I will show you why it is so important to develop and optimize high-quality content targeted at answering people’s questions and alleviating their frustration. I will introduce you to the best practices in SEO and discuss the importance of collaboration in making the gospel known through your website.
• How to Double Your Next Fundraising Campaign – Thursday | February 8, 2023 | 2:00pm EST – Presented by Jesse Lane of goodmaker U. Learn the step-by-step process to a more successful organizational fundraising campaign. You’ll learn how to craft your story, engage your audience, and possibly double, triple, or even 10x your next fundraising campaign. Walk away with free tools, proven strategies, and practical next steps.
• Digital Storytelling: How to Build an Effective and Engaging Story Site – Thursday | March 21, 2024 | 2:00pm EDT – Presented by Kristy Glaspie and Amy Van Drunen of World Vision. In this busy world and crowded digital landscape, how do you create a story site that will actually be effective? You can have the best content in the world, but if nobody sees it, it doesn’t really matter. And even if they see it, you could have the most amazing stories, but if your pages aren’t engaging, nobody will scroll and read it all. Come learn how World Vision built an award-winning story site that gets around 4 million pageviews every year and the best practices they learned that can help you build and improve your own story site, regardless of your staff size or budget. (Link to sign up coming soon!)
• Finding and Telling Your Nonprofit’s Most Important Stories – Thursday | April 18, 2024 | 2:00pm EDT – Presented by Kristin Sukraw of Story Find Films. Find and tell stories that move your audience to action. (More information coming soon!)
• Telling Great Stories When You Can’t be There in Person – Thursday | May 9, 2024 | 2:00pm EDT – Presented by Jim Killam of Wycliffe Global Alliance. You can do journalism from anywhere. Discover how in this webinar. (More information coming soon!)

Click on the webinar titles for more information and to register. (I’ll be updating these links to point to webinar recordings after the webinars are complete).