Bring Your Strategic Plan to Life
Step One: Review the past year For many organizations a lot of effort is put into their annual strategic plan. The process begins by reflecting… Read More »Bring Your Strategic Plan to Life
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Support for Nonprofits
Survey time!
The open ended, tell-us-what-you”re-thinking kind.
Much of the resources we create come from nonprofit professionals asking us for help. I love getting questions like what is the best project management software? Or I want to start a charity; how do I begin? Or e need someone to take a second look at our website/fundraising plan/communication piece. Could you do that?
If you can have one thing to make your job easier, either just for today or overall, what would it be? What do you need help with?
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Curated Resources
This Thursday, February 25th is Digital Learning day. While the digital world has presented many new ways to facilitate learning, there are many aspects of the digital world that can inhibit learning. One aspect we frequently come up against is wading through endless streams of information that isn’t quite what we’re looking for.
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2021 Book Club For Nonprofit Professionals
We are launching our first ever book club.
Joining the book club is simple. Get started by sending us a message to let us know you’re here, buy or borrow the books, and get reading. Since we are in different time zones and have complicated schedules, we are going to participate in a conversation throughout the month, rather than at the end, using a Facebook Group. We will all be able to post replies and comments as we work through the books together.
The books will be:
- February: Audacious Endeavors by Somya Munjal
- March: The Book of Gutsy Women by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chelsea Clinton
- April: Eloquent Rage by Brittney Cooper
- May: Be More Pirate by Sam Conniff
Miscellaneous is not a category
Last week’s blog outlined six steps to organizing a desktop. The steps begin by identifying the different themes of your work. Each theme is a category. When each category has been identified, two things must be true.
- Each category must be mutually exclusive. That means it only contains the information about one subject. It must be exclusive from the themes of other folders.
- Each category must be collectively exhausted. That means that every file belongs somewhere. If there is a file that doesn’t seem to belong anywhere, then there are not enough categories.
The Ambiguity Effect
When something is ambiguous, we avoid it. Things that are hard to tackle seem overwhelming. This can be true in life with the big decisions and the small tasks. It can also be true of your desktop and inbox.
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Back to School for Nonprofit Professionals
A great way to get the training you need, as you complete work projects. Â There are so many resources to help nonprofit professionals learn… Read More »Back to School for Nonprofit Professionals
Optimizing Search Engines with Information Management Principles
Is SEO just information management? Well, maybe not quite, but it sure helps! For the past few months I have been working on… Read More »Optimizing Search Engines with Information Management Principles
Be a Curator of Information
How do you stay informed? Â If you are responsible for being an expert about a specific topic it is very important to stay informed… Read More »Be a Curator of Information
How do you evaluate?
I had an interesting conversation with someone recently. They ask if they could tell me honestly what they thought about a project I’d poured myself… Read More »How do you evaluate?