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The Nonprofit MarCommunity is one year old today! I've written about it over on the Nonprofit MarCommunity blog, but since it's a moflow offering, I just had to mention it here.

What happens when you bring together a room full of people who have a shared interest in and desire to build communications capacity for nonprofits? You get many, many good ideas.

Over the last few days, I’ve been blogging about a session I delivered last week for Maytree called Five Good Ideas About Building Nonprofit Communications Capacity. I walked away from the session with a huge bundle of papers absolutely filled with amazing insights and ideas from participants. In fact, there were far more insights offered during the session than we could possibly have shared back to the group within our time frame, so I committed to finding a way to bring them all together and share them. That sharing has taken the form of this blog series.

As nonprofit communicators, we know that building our capacity to communicate is important because there is so much we want to achieve. But it can feel like so much is outside of our control and it’s not always obvious what steps we can take as individuals to move in the right direction.

Over the last few days, I’ve been blogging about a session I facilitated for Maytree last week on building nonprofit communications capacity. During the session, after I shared my ideas about building capacity, I used the rest of our time to glean insights from the participants in the room, on the webcast and following on Twitter.

I first asked participants to answer the question: “What would you be able to accomplish with greater communications capacity?”