Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2016

I just published this piece guest blog post over at MarketsforGood about how nonprofit data nerds can use data to set some new goals for 2017 to become healthier – Enjoy. The passion that many nonprofit data nerds feel for our work is a double-edged sword.

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Byte Technology

DECEMBER 22, 2016

The post Pipe Up: How to Get More Comments on Your WordPress Posts appeared first on Byte Technology’s Web Design Insights Blog. If your site is a busy one, with lots of discussions happening all the time, this will save you a great deal of frustration and greatly aid in managing your comment workload.

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Byte Technology

DECEMBER 15, 2016

The post The Magnificent Seven: Great WordPress Features Worth Checking Out appeared first on Byte Technology’s Web Design Insights Blog. The program’s visual editor automatically converts the text into a clickable link, and you saved yourself a little time and energy.

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Byte Technology

DECEMBER 1, 2016

The post Dollars and Sense: When to Whip Out Your Wallet for a Premium WordPress Theme appeared first on Byte Technology’s Web Design Insights Blog.

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Byte Technology

DECEMBER 6, 2016

The post Don’t Panic: Common WordPress Errors and How to Fix Them (Part One) appeared first on Byte Technology’s Web Design Insights Blog. To fix the problem use at FTP client program to change the permissions for your image directory (one good program to seek out is Filezilla, which is free and easy to understand and use).

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Check out the CauseVox blog for more year-end fundraising tips. Passionate about helping nonprofits, she works to empower CauseVox users on crowdfunding best practices and curates the latest fundraising insights on the CauseVox blog. Make sure your year-end fundraising strategy includes these crucial days. Learn More About Fundraising.

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Achieve

DECEMBER 19, 2016

The following blog first appeared on. Philanthropy News Digest. Last month my mother called to tell me about a neighbor who had just been diagnosed with cancer. She talked about how sad the news made her, and told me the town was really coming together to do something for one of its own.

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Achieve

DECEMBER 4, 2016

We are happy you read this blog and would love the opportunity to implement these simple updates to help increase traffic to your site. Let’s review it together and discuss how it can be upgraded for the new Google mobile-index. Already have a mobile friendly or responsive website but need to improve your search ranking? 1 Source: [link].

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Visual social media such as Instagram, Pinterest, and YouTube videos moved up in priority again this year, surpassing blogging and phone banking for the first time ever. For more exciting nonprofit technology news from this year, check out part 2 of this blog series. Nonprofits are putting more emphasis on visual content.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 6, 2016

In addition, TechSoup provides free technology knowledge resources and tips through our blog , webinars , forums , and articles and how-tos. We also recently started offering online courses , some of which are free. Sign up for our newsletters to stay current. spanhidden.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 8, 2016

In addition to Fire Starters her must-read weekly blog, Lori is also the author of Nine Steps to a Successful Fundraising Campaign and co-author of The Essential Fundraising Handbook for Small Nonprofits. And counting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Join me at Markets for Good on December 6 at 1 pm EST for a FREE roundtable discussion about the new Data Playbook. . It has been almost exactly four years since I published Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World , with co-author, Katie Paine.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Note from Beth: December is a time when start to reflect on the past year and future online trends for fundraising.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 14, 2016

A lot of emails we receive in our aggregate donor inbox, and a lot of the examples you’ll see in other blog posts about email appeals, use images. Should your entire email be an image? There’s only one way to find out, and that’s to test it. But just because a lot of people use images in their emails, doesn’t mean that you should too.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 14, 2016

As you can tell from to format of this blog post, I like lists. This tip and the next few all help make your emails more “scannable”, meaning it’s easy to glean the key messages at a quick glance. Use Bulleted or Numbered Lists. Use Bold and/or Colored Text to Create a Visual Hierarchy.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 9, 2016

This blog has tips you need to help you and your community foundation colleagues finish the year strong. Not only are you taking care of business-as-usual, you’re also managing year-end grant cycles, accepting complex assets, holding donor appreciation events, and trying to close the books. Fortunately, you’re not in it alone!

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 13, 2016

In addition to the in-person or phone support offered by the Autism Society of NC, the organization also sends out two e-newsletters a month with links to blog articles and content offering valuable information about autism and answering common questions.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 16, 2016

This is part 2 of 3 in the Single Audit and the Uniform Guidance Blog Series. Make sure to check out the final installment, What to Expect When You’re Anticipating an Auditor. The bar has been raised for grant recipients receiving federal awards.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2016

Marshall's book, Transforming The Way We Work -- The Power Of The Collaborative Workplace , remains relevant today, more than a decade after Marshall wrote it. Particularly useful is the book's section that teaches readers how to be a collaborative leader.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2016

With only one one day left of 2016, it's time to identify your New Year's Resolutions for 2017. To get you started, how about selecting one or more of these 70 New Year's resolutions for leaders? Perhaps write down five to ten and then between now and tomorrow, think about which couple you want to work on during 2017.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2016

In their book, Millennials Who Manage , authors Chip Espinoza and Joel Schwarzbart , quote Donna Hicks 's explanation about how dignity is different from respect. Dignity is different from respect in that it is not based on how people perform, what they can do for us, or their likability. Dignity is a feeling of inherent value and worth.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Author Paul Falcone offers the following great advice for how to become a stronger career mentor and coach by helping your subordinates grow and develop in their own careers. Encourage others to engage in random acts of kindness. Find creative ways of surprising your customers. Focus on making bad relationships good and good relationships better.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Too often, businesses don't have clearly defined goals and even less often specific plans to reach those goals. When you set a goal for your business, be sure it is SMART : S pecific M easurable A ttainable R elevant T ime-related Share that goal with your employees, so they understand all of the five attributes of the goal.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Here are 10 important questions business leaders should ask, according to Ken Blanchard and Garry Ridge , authors of Helping People Win At Work : Does my business have a clear, meaningful, and easily understood vision/mission? Do I have the right people in the right seats on the bus?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2016

To find the best business, communications and leadership books to add to my "to read" list for 2017, I reached out to some of the best experts in the field. Individuals I admire and respect.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Be Decisive A manager who can't make a decision or who can't make a timely decision will frustrate his/her employees. Equally bad, a lack of decision will impede the progress of the manager's team. Some managers make endless requests for data as a way to postpone their having to make a decision.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2016

From John Blakey 's new book, The Trusted Executive , published just a couple weeks ago, here are these four tips from Jim Collins for how to be a humble leader : Demonstrate a compelling modesty, shunning public adulation and never be boastful.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2016

If you are leading an organization and are the last person to interview a candidate, focus your questions more on trying to see if the person is a cultural fit. Here are a few questions to pose to potential new hires (from the book, Advisory Leadership : What motivates you? What are you passionate about?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2016

To help you bring out the best in your team, you need to get close and understand their skills, abilities, and motivations. So, the authors of the book, Your First Leadership Job , recommend you hold getting-to-know-you conversations with each of your direct reports. Ask these open-ended questions.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2016

The Cycle of Winning has five parts: Decide, Overdo, Adjust, Finish, Keep Improving. These are the five actions that winners take to get on track and to help stay on tract. Theses actions create Serial Winners, explains Larry Weidel in his book, Serial Winner. Serial Winners leverage a cycle of winning action to make progress," says Weidel.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2016

Communication expert Bart Egnal reveals why jargon is so prevalent in the workplace, and why it usually undermines those who use it, in his new book, Leading Through Language. Step by step, Egnal demonstrates how effective leaders reject fuzzy terminology in favor of the language of leadership.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2016

If you are a leader already engaging with an executive coach, or contemplating engaging one, here are four ways to make your coaching experience a success, as reported in a relatively recent issue of Fortune magazine: Find the right match. Find someone to push and challenge you. To encourage you and to hold you accountable.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2016

I really like these 10 guiding business principles that San Antonio, TX headquartered insurance company USAA lives by: Exceed customer expectations Live the Golden Rule (treat others with courtesy and respect) Be a leader Participate and contribute Pursue excellence Work as a team Share knowledge Keep it simple (make it easy for customers to do business (..)

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Near the top of virtually every list you'll see of the best leadership books, you'll find, Good To Great , by Jim Collins. The book, five years in the making, and published in 2001, addresses the all-important question of: Can a good company become a great company, and if so, how?

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Byte Technology

DECEMBER 8, 2016

All told, it’s little wonder that The New York Times , Forbes and the Facebook blog trust their sites to the WordPress CMS. But users won’t be able to customize the blog, the built-in themes are fairly boring, you won’t have FTP access and you can’t upgrade or add features because, well, there simply aren’t any available.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 20, 2016

For more #nptech news, check out part 1 of this blog series. Here's our look at the most interesting and fun things that happened in nonprofit technology this year. This was the year that Slack became a thing in our offices — it certainly did at TechSoup.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 13, 2016

This is the first blog in a three-part series that will walk you through the basics of preparing for your first Single Audit with a step-by-step approach to help you confidently prepare for success. First, take a deep breath and don’t panic.

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