Flickr Photo: relentlesstoilYup, we're talking about the best way to communicate again. We figure the only way we'll master it is, well, by keeping the lines open.

Ryan Richards, Asturais Academy of Guatemala, and Karen Matheson, M+R Strategic Services, will be doing just that on July 31 at a Seattle Net Tuesday Event: Communicating at a Distance: Best practices communicating with members and supporters. They will offer real-world advice and research-based best practices for communicating with your membership effectively, maintaining and developing supporters, building relationships, and sharing your story.

Karen co-authored M+R and NTEN's eNonprofit Benchmarks Study, which analyzes online messaging, fundraising, and advocacy data from 21 leading nonprofit organizations. It's a great report to see how your organization's communication efforts match up.

If you're reading this, you are probably aware of the We are Media project we've begun with Beth Kanter -- a Social Media Starter Kit for Nonprofits to help us all use available tools to communicate our messages better. We want you to pipe up, be it on this blog, in the We are Media wiki, at a local Net Tuesday or 501 Tech Club Event, or wherever your audience may be. Then, let us know how it's going.