Tech Soup

JUNE 5, 2011

Organizations with healthy IT infrastructures are continually making iterative improvements based on their program needs, documenting those improvements, and monitoring for future iterations. Document all of those lists and take note of how much overlap there is among them. She's great. That may be trickier than you'd think.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 5, 2011

Organizations with healthy IT infrastructures are continually making iterative improvements based on their program needs, documenting those improvements, and monitoring for future iterations. Document all of those lists and take note of how much overlap there is among them. She's great. That may be trickier than you'd think.

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Technology Phase Laptop Tech 54

Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 11, 2016

I’ve personally received five packages of greeting cards and more calendars than there are walls in my house. On a positive note, some nonprofits have taken recent bad press seriously, responding with a deliberate effort to tell donors what transparency means to them. My mailbox and inbox are already filled with requests.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 2, 2013

I've had bad direct experiences with high-priced PR firms that are slaves to antiquated promotion calendars. I love Trevor Donnell's brilliant book and blog, Marketing the Arts to Death , in which he documents the disasters caused by our inability to be audience- and data-driven in our marketing efforts.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 23, 2016

In a few days’ time the Gregorian calendar will reset; the month we call December will end and a new set of 12 months will be upon us. The simple fact is that the New Year presents a wonderful opportunity to press pause and get ready for the coming year. This is a tradition observed by much of the world approximately every 365.25

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 13, 2020

Your calendar and sign-up or registration forms. If you’re considering making any kind of backend updates, though, there are a few best practices to keep in mind in order to simplify the process going forward: Keep full documentation of any custom projects you conduct. It contains elements like: All of the pages of your website.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2011

It was once my day job to visit worldwide facilities and – within 2-3 days – determine and document whether a given organization had the necessary systems in place to meet their commitments in an ongoing way – no hiccups, no excuses. Do you have a documented succession plan? Staff & resource calendar.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 27, 2010

I typically start on the homepage and then click all of the links in the navigation, documenting each as I go. These tools are helpful to extract links for each page, especially for sites with large news or press sections, to ensure that all content is represented on your inventory. Keep your list updated!

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Classy

JULY 14, 2021

Create a “run of show” document that you will send to each remote guest speaker. If you’re looking for where to begin, check out the resource How to Start and Manage Your Nonprofit’s Email Marketing Calendar. Determine next steps you’ll take in case a remote guest speaker doesn’t show up, or has internet issues.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2005

Getting all their in-house and on-line systems talking to each other seems to be a pressing concern of the organizations we work with. Integrated Calendaring I see we have some calendar-related requests lined up to deal with in the next month or two. There are a number of web-based calendars being touted as "web2.0"

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 5, 2014

Create an editorial calendar that allows for flexibility while at same time allocates a minimal number of required content creation and distribution. Your editorial calendar should be added as an addendum to your Mobile and Social Fundraising Strategic Plan (as discussed in Chapter 2). Create a best practices document.

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Neon CRM

APRIL 27, 2023

Press Releases: While getting press coverage for a nonprofit event is always a crapshoot, sending out press releases is still a good way to spread the word. You may also want to add your press release to the media kit section of your nonprofit’s websit e. That way, any interested party can easily find it for themselves.

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Robert Weiner

JUNE 21, 2009

Nolo Press has some good boilerplate contracts. document your work (for yourself, and the client): configurations/settings, inventories, assessments, options, recommendations, decisions, plans, budgets, meeting minutes. - build in time for billing, organizing files, reading the trade press, watching webinars, etc. . do it ASAP.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

And appeals can be very specific things like your fall appeal, your calendar year-end appeal. So I’ll do something like calendar year-end appeal 2020, calendar year-end appeal 2021, and make sure the naming conventions are consistent. But you should document that organizational basic foundation structure for your database.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Creating an author agreement, documenting escalation process, content templates, and content calendars can all help with this structure. We create flyers, class schedules, program guides, e-newsletters, emails and press releases, not to mention posting to our website and Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

And although we had some people tweeting from sessions, to me it seemed like we were missing an opportunity but not having a perhaps more organized approach to having our conference audience help “cover” or document the conference. So on to what we tried this year… (this is gonna be a long scroller). We eliminated the t-shirts too.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

And with that in mind, you can start to turn your plan into a calendar with clear accountabilities and clear actions. Earned media is when you get press or coverage by somebody else. This is where you sort of say, “Okay, this is how we’re going to use all the tactics. This is when we’re going to use them.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 6, 2014

Interactive, web-based ebooks are coming and will transform education and publishing in the near future, but until the technology arrives, you can copy and paste the text below in Word document. Create an editorial calendar. ? Integrate mobile and social media into news articles and press releases. ?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Interactive, web-based ebooks will transform publishing in the near future, but until the technology arrives, you can copy and paste the checklist below in Word document. Create an editorial calendar. Integrate mobile and social media into news articles and press releases. Mobile and Social Fundraising Strategic Plan.

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