The Nonprofit Consultant

JULY 8, 2010

But in that posting, I emphasized that "Twitter requires listening, as well as frequent posting," and that ignoring that warning could cause your social media strategy to backfire. Tags: Nonprofit social media marketing twitter mistakes. Last year, to the question of "Should Your Nonprofit be on Twitter?"

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The Nonprofit Consultant

OCTOBER 23, 2007

Engaged boards ask questions of staff and read journals to become educated on the issues their organization is involved in. Engaged boards read and understand monthly financial statements and accept their responsibility for fundraising activities that will ensure the organization's short-term stability and long-term sustainability.

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Buzzsprout

JULY 2, 2023

Keep in mind that some shows require more production than others. For instance, fiction podcasts usually require more editing than interview podcasts. But XLR mics require an interface or mixer to hook up. Record your first episode Recording your episode requires a little preparation on the front end.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2018

Of course, doing so requires managers also check their likability and similarity biases, to make sure the opinions are fair. The manager can keep a tally of how many meetings the person leads and how many times the person tag-teams with a coworker on a project.

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Women in Consulting

OCTOBER 11, 2016

It was the perfect time and place to find out if I was good enough to put a price tag on my brain. Interestingly, around that same time I received a birthday card from a dear friend in Philadelphia that read … If you ask me how I came to live my life, I came to live it out loud.

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Management Consulted

JULY 31, 2016

What is the price tag on doing the right thing? At the same time – I realized I have become great at talking myself out of things that require courage, and even better at weighing scenarios until the process just honestly isn’t fun anymore. Something more or less? Did we have the 8 hours in the car or the $6500 to spend?

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 6, 2024

In Effective Agility Requires Cultural Changes: Part 1 , I said that real agile approaches require cultural change to focus on flow efficiency , where we watch the flow of the work , not the people doing tasks. Long ago, I wrote When Requirements Spawn Requirements as one example of that.) 1,2 and so on.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

MAY 15, 2006

On the contrary, you assume people will read long articles. I fully agree, and have often told people that it's a mistake to assume that anybody reads anything anymore. Longer explanations, if needed, may follow, but make sure any necessary take-aways (next required meeting, due dates for applications, changes in regulations, etc.)

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The Nonprofit Consultant

DECEMBER 4, 2006

concepts, such as tagging and feeds, and how they can improve our practices. It is traditional fundraising in terms of the skills required for completing the applications, but they are adapted to the online world. More effective integration of cause and effect using tags and feeds. But with proper use of tagging, RSS, etc.,

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

The city that lands this historic deal will see its economic and physical landscape transformed, albeit for a hefty price tag in the form of tax breaks. And for good reason: “HQ2,” as it’s being called, would create upwards of 50,000 high-paying jobs and billions of dollars of new investment in whichever city it locates in.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

JANUARY 17, 2008

The opening paragraph reads: "There has been a major change in philanthropy in recent years. But what happens to the small nonprofit whose administrative expenses seem too high only because of an effort to comply with all the data collection, analysis, and reporting requirements of their funders?

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The Nonprofit Consultant

MAY 10, 2009

This is because the best use of Twitter requires listening, as well as frequent posting. If you're not prepared to quickly read and follow-up on replies to @yournonprofit, your use of Twitter could backfire. Tags: web 2.0 One of the simplest, but most powerful, tools within Twitter is the reply post.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

JULY 28, 2006

Read the whole article - You'll laugh till you cry with recognition. Then, when you return to work on Monday, maybe we can discuss why we feel required to work in sub-standard offices with out-dated equipment. Tags: nonprofit , poverty , satire Then, go home, and have a good weekend.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

JUNE 1, 2006

I especially like the OBOS profile, and how it is written in the first person ("Maybe you read me in a women's studies class. MySpace is free to use, and requires no special technical skills to set up a basic profile. Tags: nonprofit , MySpace , outreach , community Alchemist CDC - and Our Bodies Ourselves.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

JUNE 26, 2006

If you've been reading this blog regularly, you know that I like small nonprofits, and am wary of merger-fever. It will require a bit of leadership to get some of these "coffee table nonprofits" to overcome their egos in coming together, but that is easy too. Tags: nonprofits , small organizations , leadership , collaboration

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The Nonprofit Consultant

MAY 8, 2006

They've been at this for a long time, and their web design and ease of use makes searching and reading the results a breeze. DonorData has good information, but it is not very intuitive and search results are not formatted in an easy to read or print manner. Tags: foundations , research , nonprofit , fundaising , database

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 23, 2017

Whatever hype businesspeople read around AI — and there is a great deal — the intentions and actions of so many players should alert them to the fundamental importance of this new technology. “There were lots of pictures in big agricultural universities, but no one had the information well-tagged.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Our research into firms that have succeeded in Africa highlights two essential requirements: the imagination to see the continent’s unmet needs as opportunities for growth, and the long-term commitment to build businesses of meaningful scale. Further Reading.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Hazard has since started the "93 Dollar Club" on Facebook, where people across the globe can easily read the story and comment on the good karma phenomenon. And commenters say they are reading - and giving - from Iran, Israel, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, the Czech Republic, Australia, Hungary, Sri Lanka and beyond.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

JUNE 6, 2006

I read the posting with great interest and agreed with most everything being said, until the last paragraph, which opened with, "Mergers may be the best solution to the excessive number of nonprofit organizations." Tags: nonprofit , mergers , charities , management , grassroots , human services

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The Nonprofit Consultant

MARCH 26, 2009

All of us in the nonprofit sector are aware (or, should be aware) that the Foundations who support us have a minimum 5% payout requirement to maintain their nonprofit status. Tags: Nonprofit legislation taxes 5% payout foundations. Now, I'm not saying that I'm against Schumer's bill. It's probably a great idea.

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