About Matt Koltermann
Aloha.
Hi! I’m Matt, and Nonprofit Geekery is my blog.
After graduating with an undergraduate business degree in marketing, I joined the U.S. Peace Corps and volunteered in Kenya. When I wasn’t taking bucket baths or learning Kiswahili, I worked with local micro-entrepreneurs and community-based organizations to improve their business practices using appropriate technology.
My Peace Corps experience jumpstarted a career in the nonprofit sector. After a couple years managing online outreach projects at Idealist.org, I’m now at Cross-Cultural Solutions, a nonprofit organization that facilitates international volunteer opportunities in a dozen countries for several thousand people each year.
At CCS, I play a big role in our online communications work as Senior Manager of Community Engagement. This includes developing our social media strategy, managing online projects, monitoring our brand, and administering content management systems for our website and email marketing. I’m also an internal evangelist for social media, and I know a thing or two about website analytics and search engine optimization.
I’m equally skilled when it come to big-picture visioning and managing nitty-gritty details. I’m not a developer or a designer, but I’d like to think I’m pretty savvy when it comes to HTML, CSS, principles of elegant Web design, experimenting with new technology, and effectively communicating with people who have varied levels of technical understanding and appreciation. And I have three kitties.
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Disclosures
The views and opinions I express on Nonprofit Geekery are in no way endorsed by my employer, Cross-Cultural Solutions. I draw on my own practical experience when writing for this blog, which means I often talk about the work I do at CCS, but this is not a marketing vehicle for CCS in any way. I’m also not compensated in any way for product or service endorsements on Nonprofit Geekery. If I say I like or use something, it’s because I really do and not because I’m getting paid in some way to say that.
Any images that appear on this site are either my own, provided by the owner for use on this blog, or licensed by Creative Commons.
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