Category Archives: Technology
3 Organizational Communication Trainings that Can Add Value; Part II: Newswriting
By Sarah Ryan, Ph.D. I’ve now offered tips for meeting and interviewing trainings. This month, the topic is newswriting. While print newspapers are dying out, news is proliferating. Successful organizations now produce pithy news content for Twitter, multi-media substance for … Continue reading
Facebook and Instant Gratification
By Jamie Andrew Here’s the thing: about a month ago, I quit Facebook. I got tired of the millions of updates about head colds, breakfast cereal and family feuds – and my incredible ability to waste a lot of time … Continue reading
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Data-Driven Decision Making
By Anne Schink As the calendar year draws to a close, many volunteer managers are scrambling to collect all the data they need to justify their existence. Well, not really, but some days it may feel like that. Building on … Continue reading
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Is there an App for that?
By Patricia Kimball I spend a lot of time on the internet, on the prowl for programs that enhance my workflow and increase the efficiencies of organizations with whom I work. Over time, I have discovered quite a few tools … Continue reading
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Your Brand Online: Personal, Organizational & Cause
The challenge is to empower volunteers to create content and manage accounts while maintaining control of both your brand’s image & message and your critical information such as logins and passwords. Continue reading
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Doing More and Doing Better.
by Patricia Kimball It is hard to believe sometimes that there was life before email. How did we communicate? How did we share our ideas? How did we schedule meetings, announce events, or talk to our friends across the country … Continue reading
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Recruiting through the Internet using VolunteerMaine.org
By Maria E. Hinteregger Ten years ago, potential volunteers would contact a program by phone, mail or even in person. Many of our organizations had no website and some even lacked computers. People could find out about us by connecting … Continue reading
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Nonprofit Communication in the Digital Age: Changing Times, (mostly) Same Old Criteria
By Sarah Ryan, Ph.D. If your nonprofit doesn’t have a second life presence, are you doing a disservice to your clients? Probably not. If you don’t provide economic data on your website, are you failing your donors? Maybe so. These … Continue reading
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Open Volunteerism
By Jeremy Keith Hammond The prefix ‘open’ has become applied to many new terms, particularly in online conversations. It describes an approach to design, development, organization and distribution. Open-approaches are most often considered free, though not just in price, but … Continue reading
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Using LinkedIn to Find Volunteers Isn’t Easy
By Carla Ganiel Heather Banester Bassett’s recent post on the benefits of volunteering for job seekers got me thinking about how to reach the unemployed or underemployed. One of the first pieces of advice for job seekers in this age … Continue reading
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