Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2008

According to a new study from AOL , 59% of people check their email in the bathroom. The study of 4,000 users also showed people check their email from the following locations: ??? From church: 15% (up from 12% last year) This may be a less of a statement about email addiction and more about how email is out of hand.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

On the Progressive Exchange list, Michael Whitney asked : Campaign Monitor's " Email Design Guidelines for 2006 ," which though it is 2 years old, still has some staying power. Add a text-based link to a web version of your design at the top of your email. Here are their 6 conventions: What should stay, change, or go?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2008

ll be able to calm the raging torrent of email that threatens to drown us.??? Library clips picks up the thread with a detailed analysis of enterprise email and blogging processes and talks about where blogs shine over email for particular types of communication. in fact here is 10 reasons why blogs are better than email.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2008

I get way too email that I can barely keep up. For novices just starting to explore social media, I recommend google alerts as the first listening step because they didn't have learn another application (RSS Readers) to get started. I use google alerts, but always wished they had an RSS option.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

" That was before we used email all the time and we had to deal with the amount of information we deal with daily. I remember one that said, "Give a Hoot, Don't Data Pollute" and the gist was don't reply to emails with "thank you" or useless chit chat. I'm trying to not to pollute the email stream.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2007

If you're goal is to reduce the email clutter, but not read the listserv posts and still be subscribed - than listserv is a great method for not dealing with your inability to let go. " Dave Pollard's recommendations help you avoid polluting your own and other's email boxes. If not, unsubscribe!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2008

Like any email addict, I will feel compelled to read your messages when my family is not looking. I'm on vacation at a family reunion! I'll be back on 7/1. However, I may not have time to respond before they take my phone away from me and force me to talk to humans. Face to face. For the WHOLE TRIP.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2019

One solution the Genie offered me about reducing email time was to set expectations with my email signature. The solution offered me easy steps and tools – and examples like: “To maintain focus, I check email once a day. I will be checking email intermittently and will respond as soon as I can.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2024

Write A FutureMe Email : I use a site called “ FutureMe ” to write an email to myself post-dated a year from now, a practice I’ve been doing for a few years now. I just received my 2023 email. I’ve used Chris Brogan’s technique for over a decade and found it very helpful in keeping me focused.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2008

One of things I did as a last ditch strategy was to email out a group message to various contacts and it seemed to have brought in some last minute contributions. I did the bcc of group emails. However, Google thinks I'm a spammer now and has disabled my email account. I need to figure out a way answer email.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Others fear they will have millions of emails piling up and find themselves compulsively reading and responding to email during a holiday break, ironically to reduce stress. And, it is important to not to be online reading your emails while your taking a break. I use that day to do laundry and clean up my email.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2024

(I have personally found this use case extremely helpful to have a one-click summary of really long threads transformed into actionable steps w/ links to source email.) Use Cases We discussed different use cases beyond productivity for writing tasks and processing email.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2022

Many of you have been loyal readers of my blog for many years, I hope you will consider sharing a message about The Smart Nonprofit on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter or email asking your colleagues to buy the book this week. You can use the social sharing buttons to share this post on social media or forward in email here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2008

are banding together to fight information email overload - by doing research on information coping skills - one of my favorite topics for the past ten years. " Yes, there is a huge flow of email and other digital distractions - but if you avoid living at the post office (apologies to Eudora Welty) - you'll get more done!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

A great big thank you to Ryan over at PICnet for this hack -- I can now move my NTEN Affinity Groups emails over the reader. This, of course, assumes that haven't reaced the point of RSS reader overload and I can successfully shift my email reading habit. Photo by SCFiasco on Flickr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Encourage staff to look for “points of pain” where busy work, known as the “digital debt” – processing endless emails, managing back-to-back meetings zaps people’s energy or reformatting information and robs time away from strategic thinking. Applying AI to basic collaboration workflows can offer a dividend of time (and brain space).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2007

1=I love email so much I live in my inbox 2=The thrill is gone from email, but still use it because many others I work with still use it. 3=Email is a chore, I prefer other ways to communicate with friends. 4=I hate email. Holly from NTEN has a post "Is Your Email Managing You?" I keep loosing email.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2023

Write A FutureMe Email : I use a site called “ FutureMe ” to write an email to myself post-dated a year from now, a practice I’ve been doing for a few years now. I just received my 2022 email which begins with “As you read this, I hope that I am still a COVID virgin, healthy, and happy

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 13, 2008

Including the key point about avoiding information overload with your email - use the delete key, make it like eating chocolate! Thankfully, Laura White live blogged the session and captured the valuable peer knowledge that was shared in the room.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

Write A FutureMe Email: I use a site called “ FutureMe ” to write an email to myself post-dated a year from now, a practice I’ve been doing for a few years now. I just received my email dated from last year and I was happy to see that I accomplished most of my goals! I’ve shared My Three Themes below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2017

The book is about our behavioral addictions to our smartphones, video games, social media, and email and how to break them. Like slot machines, people check their emails and social networks repeatedly because they have a Ludic Loop embedded. The diagram below illustrates a Ludic Loop in checking your email.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2006

Madeline Stanionis, author of new book on email fundraising. My colleague Michael Stein emailed me about a month ago right before the NTC Conference to offer me a FREE review copy of a new book by Madeline Stanionis about how nonprofits can raise money online using email. " published by Emerson & Church.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Everyday they will donate a dollar a day to specific nonprofit, encourage others to donate, and promote the nonprofit’s work to their network via a brief email newsletter. Which is why we offer our daily email to anyone for free, regardless if they signup as a donor or not.” ” You can sign up for the email here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2022

Write A FutureMe Email: I use a site called “ FutureMe ” to write an email to myself post-dated a year from now, a practice I’ve been doing for a few years now. I’ve used Chris Brogan’s technique for over a decade and found it very helpful in keeping me focused. ” Well, 2 out of 3 is not bad!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Adopt Good Practices Around Team Emails. Have a formal policy about sending after hours emails. Some organizations have explicit policies such as “no email between 7pm-7am.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2019

” A trigger campaign uses pre-designed emails that you want to send whenever the contact does some activity and these campaigns will keep on running continuously sending emails to new contacts that satisfy the criteria. He also mentioned Quilt.Ai

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2022

Write A FutureMe Email: I use a site called “ FutureMe ” to write an email to myself post-dated a year from now, a practice I’ve been doing for a few years now. I’ve used Chris Brogan’s technique for over a decade and found it very helpful in keeping me focused. ” Well, 2 out of 3 is not bad!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2020

5) Send Myself A FutureMe Email: I use a site called “ FutureMe ” to write an email to myself post dated a year from now, a practice I’ve been doing for a few years now. I just received my email dated from last year and I was happy to see that I accomplished most of my goals!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2014

When we say video works, we don’t mean every video works, any more than we mean every email works or every direct mail piece works. To know that your email works you have to be sending email regularly – and developing clear metrics for what success looks like. The same is true with video. Digital Sherpa ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2014

Don’t Forget Email: As of Q4 2013, 61% of emails are viewed on a smartphone or tablet. That means above and beyond all the earlier tips for optimizing your mobile website, you also need to mobilize your emails, newsletters, appeals, etc. And don’t try to cramp too much content in— white space is your friend.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2008

" -- Although when I posted videos of his grandchildren on his profile, he emailed me saying he enjoyed the video. " I set up my eighty-something Dad on Facebook - and his reaction "Cognitive Overload!" A question I'm often asked is " What are the demographics of social networking users ?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2022

Many of you have been loyal readers of my blog for many years, I hope you will consider sharing a message about The Smart Nonprofit on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter or email asking your colleagues to buy the book this week. Here are some messages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2017

Can you share some tips about for dealing with the stress that results from using technology, like email. I noticed that when I emailed you, you had an interesting bounce message. If you don’t have clear priorities, your attention is more likely to be hijacked by your email or some other distraction. All tech tools aren’t alike.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2017

(BTW, Third Plateau is offering a chance to win FREE copy of the book, if you email them your favorite wellbeing app.). Sanebox – Email causes a lot of stress for everyone with a never ending dump of 24/7 messages. Sanebox can help you clean up your email and make it manageable so it isn’t a time suck.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2016

You can do this by: Asking your donor to connect on social media and through email. Personalize all communications, even if it’s an informal email. All of us have access to our own communication channels (social media platforms, email, recommendation sites, etc.) Get to know your donor on a personal level. 3: Donors Hold Power.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Set aside 10 minutes when I first arrive in the morning to organize my day vs jumping in answering emails. Do a 3 minute headspace mediation first thing when I arrive at my desk before starting my email. Here’s a few examples: Take 10 minute walk everyday at lunch. How did you successfully create the new behavior?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

. ” This is the burnout from too many emails, meetings, and collaborative tech tools that limits our organization’s ability to get stuff done. Or to catch up on all those emails that were sent while we were in back-to-back meetings all day. Communication : How will you communicate with each other?

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