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JANUARY 21, 2021

Stretch between meetings Set reminders on your iPhone or watch (Fitbit has this feature built into its software) or add to your calendar Add music to your movement moments Try habit stacking to make it routine (add on to an existing ritual) Do leg lifts while on a conference call (with the video off!)

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JANUARY 29, 2013

But your content pipeline needs more than an editorial calendar. Next, you are ready to organize your content onto your editorial calendar. List of ideas that didn’t make onto the editorial calendar. You need a pipeline which includes ideas for themes or topics you want to create content around. What goes in an Idea Dashboard?

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JANUARY 25, 2013

But more importantly, I wanted to close the loop and show you that after getting back to a consistent editorial calendar, the engagement and reach came back from vacation. One of the posts that got a lot of engagement and contributed to the uphill trend in the metrics was about editorial calendars. My answer: Yes!

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MAY 15, 2020

Try to avoid a busy calendar with too many calls. You can also check a few ice breakers and energizers on our video recording of the session. Just say no when you have too many meetings without a break. Aim for a break after 60-90 minutes of a call. It’s helping you to stay focused while avoiding the so-called “Zoom overload”.

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JULY 24, 2012

Use of editorial calendar. ” This generated useful tips and suggestions on how to manage an editorial calendar and content strategy process. We did a “Fish Bowl” exercise where several volunteers brainstormed an editorial calendar for the month of September, while the rest of the group observed.

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JULY 27, 2017

This tool, which works with Google Calendar, let’s you export your calendar information to a spreadsheet. GTimeReport – We often feel time starved, too many tasks, too little time. And that causes stress unless we reflect and analyze how we are actually using our time.

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AUGUST 19, 2015

Not only do you need to pre-plan your content using an editorial calendar but coordinate and assign tasks and organize your content assets and curation. And, then there is the task of putting fingers to keyboard and creating the content as well as curating. Then you have get organized, really organized. Format Templates and Cheat Sheets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

One method for individuals is to schedule “ power hours ” by putting your planning/quiet time in your calendar and focusing on a key task. Another method is finding a “ Shultz Hour ” where you carve an hour before or after work for silent reflection, or maybe a Shultz ten minutes by closing your office door.

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JANUARY 10, 2017

My bullet journal also incorporates “looking-ahead” rituals linked to my calendar. I use the technique of Bullet Journals , a hand-written system to manage your to-do lists. I use the looking ahead to see what is coming and make sure there is time in my schedule to accomplish it.

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JUNE 17, 2014

Don’t forget to add a column in your editorial calendar spreadsheet for quotes as content. Batch create them so you have them ready to go each month. Integrate Into Your Editorial Process: Your organization no doubt has an editorial process where you brainstorm, plan, and produce content for various channels each month.

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JANUARY 11, 2011

Editorial Calendars: Use a social media editorial calendar. .&# The theme of transparency was an important idea in the Networked Nonprofit and I can’t wait to read Micah’s thinking about the transparency movement. You can pre-order the book and get 15% off. Identify all your platforms, themes, and schedule it.

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JANUARY 7, 2013

Not completely, but did not create or curate content according to an editorial calendar. I have done this before and while my reach and engagement numbers go down, I get them back up when I return from a much needed mini-sabbatical. Get that editorial calendar up and running. That always gets folks talking and sharing.

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JULY 10, 2012

You are only as good as your last Facebook post and if you don’t post consistently, using an editorial calendar – then your engagement and reach drops. If you are just posting any old content, not what your audience loves, then you won’t see much engagement.

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OCTOBER 20, 2016

Mike blocks out time for solo thinking and reflection on his calendar and they avoid scheduling meetings one day week (Friday). Do you leave empty spaces on your calendar to do this time of work, but find it often gets taken up by meetings or phone calls. He also shared that he uses a notebook and pen for this solo thinking time.

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JULY 21, 2010

Mark your calendars! Photo by Geoff Livingston. Citizen Effect’s CitizenGulf project will become a National Day of Action on August 25th, in alignment with the week of the fifth anniversary of Katrina.

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MARCH 21, 2017

A quick glance at your calendar shows that you spent hours in meetings, answering emails, or working on shared documents but you can’t remember why. Just because the default setting on your calendar software is for 60 minutes, it doesn’t necessarily mean you need the full hour. Sound familiar? Establish Look Ahead Team Rituals .

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MARCH 31, 2015

He also introduced them to the editorial calendar, which he maintains in an easy to access google spreadsheet , and made easy to complete assignments and avoid conflicts. Gerard also uses Sprout Social to generate reports on their results and he continually shares results with staff to keep them motivated.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2014

Thanksgiving would be an opportune focal point to build on, when people’s calendars and media in general encourage feeling thankful and grateful. The Templeton Foundation recently published a study stating that those who are grateful on average give 20% more, and they feel more committed to their local communities.

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OCTOBER 1, 2014

Says Chen in an email interview, “We independently select each nonprofit, and review their website and public materials to write the paragraph summary which we share in our daily emails, and on our public calendar. If a nonprofit wants to be considered for Dollar a Day , we’re happy to hear from them.

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OCTOBER 17, 2017

” Indeed, she had a calendar full of meetings, an endless to do list, and an inbox that was anything but zeroed out. Recently, a nonprofit professional said to me, “I don’t have time to learn anything new because I have too much work to do.”

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

A simple tactic on making sure that you have hand crafted content is to create an editorial calendar. Rubel suggests that it is essential to handcraft your social content for the particular network or channel. This means that Facebook content should be different from Twitter content.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2018

A shared calendar? Have participants use sticky notes to do a rapid brainstorm answering these questions related to your online collaboration platforms: Information : What kinds of information do you need to share? Is there a centralized task system? Do you need access to a database? An intranet?

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FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Basically, you take a notebook and a pen, and make it your calendar, journal and planner. Within a few years, it grew to be a community of people who use it as a tool for planning, organizing, and adjusting the methodology to their life habits and routines. BuJo was designed by Ryder Carroll, a digital product designer.

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DECEMBER 21, 2011

I check my insights monthly against my editorial calendar. That’s all well and good, but the data – in and of itself – is pretty useless unless I use my sense-making skills. Here’s how I do it: 1. Look for the Patterns. The first step is to look at the visuals on the dashboard. The blue represents weekly reach.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2012

This post gives you some great readiness tips – for example how the changes might impact your editorial calendar and how to communicate with fans about the changes. This is a terrific post to bring to a strategy meeting on the changes with others on your team. Understand how the format changes impacts your strategy.

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MAY 30, 2018

Your organization may add it into your content calendar. That perspective shift forces you to connect with other departments to get insight into those moments of transformation, it exponentially increases your organization’s impact, and it provides aspirational models for engagement with your cause. Build story-gathering into your process.

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MAY 8, 2018

Building basic processes for getting work done, for example collaborative calendar planning. Participants were able to share what they were doing to activate a culture of wellbeing with each other as well as come up with new ideas. Here’s the list: Function. Enough staff to cover work or prioritize work flows. Responsive tech support.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Create a content calendar and plan for Monday to be videos, Tuesday featured fans, etc. Be flexible with additions to your calendar, but use it as a guide and plan as far ahead as you feel comfortable, either by topic or actually writing out the full text. This helps you focus when writing and makes planning ahead easier.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 17, 2010

East Bay Regional Parks - Calendar from Photos in Flickr Group. It relates to the one of the themes in the book, simplicity. The idea that once you open to connecting and leverage your networks, you will shift to abundance. Take for example the SFPCA – the blog and the humorous Lady Meow Meow video is done by volunteers.

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JANUARY 11, 2012

Editorial calendar provides the structure so you don’t have to randomly find content, but keep it flexible so you can post breaking or timely news related to your organization or the issues it tracks which gets more attention and interaction. The art of writing good teaser headlines is critical to getting more interaction.

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JUNE 24, 2014

Your organization’s branded social channels will most likely have a formal and structured editorial calendar linked to your policy agenda and other communications objectives. Having your CEO use social in a separate channel gives you more flexibility, especially with breaking news.

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JUNE 2, 2007

Then I kept dual systems and finally about 2-3 years ago, I made a partial switch - may calendar. I have: Exported my calendar information from Outlook into Google Calendar after learning about the privacy functions and relieved that you set up reminders. How to synch my treo calendar with google calendar.

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JANUARY 6, 2015

And, every year when the calendar flips over, we embrace reflection and setting goals. The new year is always a popular time for all of us to take stock and see the big picture.

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JANUARY 1, 2007

The calendar New Year also makes me think about celebrating Chinese New Years which we do in our house as well. Robin, from the Chinese New Year blog sent along this cool moon phase calendar as a reminder. Click through to see the enlargement Screen capture used with permission. It's the Year of the Pig which begins on Feb.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2016

So, one thing I’ve tried is to add time to my calendar for “self-care” and pick from a variety of activities that I’m drawn too. In the course of writing the book, both Aliza and I have created “self-care plans” for ourselves, using the resources and different worksheets we’ve created.

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JUNE 7, 2008

Mark your calendars for two free TechSoup Twitter events: TechSoup Talks Twitter: Webinar June 9 and Online Event June 10. NY Times is one of the many places with coverage. link] [link] [link]. Now, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to learn how to use Twitter, particularly if you can hear from the experts. Information here.

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MARCH 6, 2008

With so much on the agenda for the NTC, here's how you can add it to your favorite calendar. Get hands-on with mobile campaigns by participating in our NTC SMS campaign. They will be texting about three Gulf Coast organizations. Find out more. Find out more. I'm coordinating the Day of Service again and speaking on a number of panels.

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