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If You Do Nothing Else, Use An Editorial Calendar and Measurement for Your Content Strategy

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Holly published the 2013 version back in December, but you can never have too much of a good and incredibly useful resource!!! It’s Not Too Late To Set Your Communications Agenda with LightBox Collaborative’s 2013 Editorial Calendar – Guest Post by Holly Minch, Lightbox Collaborative.

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Stop Days: The Secret To Nonprofit Productivity

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A 2013 study in the Journal of Environmental Psychology, based on a survey of 43,000 workers, concluded that the disadvantages of noise and distraction associated with open office plans reduced productivity.

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7 Practical Tips for Engagement with a Higher Purpose On Social

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Celebratory interactions should be a consistent part of your engagement and content calendar, so set up systems to capture and share alumni personal, social, and professional news. Asking for feedback about how to improve the school experience is also a good technique, as used in the example above is from URJ Camp Kalsman.

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Three Random Musings on End-of-Year Giving

Connection Cafe

For most nonprofits, colleges and universities, giving significantly increases around the end of the calendar year in conjunction with the late fall and early winter holiday season. Musing #3: BE THE DONOR, A PHILANTHROPIC VISUALIZATION TECHNIQUE! MUSING #1: OOPS! What should you do? I say “slowly” in a very thoughtful manner.

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Interviewing Users

Connection Cafe

You may have heard that Blackbaud recently released our 2013 Online Benchmarking Study. I do know a great research technique that you can do yourself to get some insight: User Interviews. Here are a few highlights that may be helpful: Interviewing is a qualitative research technique that offers a deep dive into the lives of customers.

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Meditations on Relevance, Part 2: Content vs. Form

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Interpretative techniques. Once you put that weekly lunch on the calendar, you're going to fill the bowl weekly with content. Consider the Victoria and Albert Museum's "rapid response collecting" program , which started in 2013. This isn't just a science center problem. It's a cultural institution problem. Curatorial processes.

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How To Train Your Attention and Be Effective When Working Online

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

How long can you pay attention when working online before your mind wanders? According to the Statistic Brain site list of attention span stats , in 2000 we had a 12 second attention span compared with an 8 second attention in 2013. Attention training is technique from Howard Rheingold, author of NetSmart.

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