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A lot of People are Depending for Better Lives on Our Ability to Manage US

September 23, 2017
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Books, Evernote, Nozbe, Personal Growth and Productivity, Software

"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson). That's what drives so many of us to this work: using our talents and skills to make a difference. And a lot of people are depending for better lives on our ability to manage us, so that we can make the difference they so desperately…

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Grow Personally. Hone Your Skills. All in Just 15-minutes.

September 17, 2017
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Blinkist, Personal Growth and Productivity, Software

Grow personally. Hone your skills. In just 15 minutes. Are you enticed? I just illustrated a strategy advocated by the late Steve Jobs as the right way to introduce a product to an audience. Jobs lived by "the rule of three." He believed that an audience won't remember more than three things, so you should cast your key message in terms of three ways that your product (aka service, proposal, idea, etc.) will help your audience solve its problem. By…

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Simplify Your Life & Increase Your Productivity with Nitro Pro PDF

August 27, 2017
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Management and Leadership, Nitro Pro, Personal Growth and Productivity, Software

Smaller nonprofits and their staff members need to take advantage of every possible technological efficiency if they are to have any time available to focus on growing the organization to meet its mission. I've previously discussed the benefits of Nitro Pro in compiling documents created with different programs, e.g. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, JPG, TIF, PDF, into a single document, such as your board agenda. That's one benefit of using a software product like Nitro Pro. Another is that Nitro Pro can…

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10 Actionable Twitter Insights for the Nascent Nonprofit

August 22, 2017
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Books, Management and Leadership, Marketing, Social Media, Twitter

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TO TAKE ACTION ON THESE TWITTER INSIGHTS Twitter is a form of social media. Merriam-Webster defines social media as “forms of electronic communication (such as websites for social networking and miroblogging) through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content (such as videos).” Twitter’s hallmark was its 140 character post limit. This dates to its birth in 2006, when it was designed to be used via wireless carriers’ text-messaging…

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Why I Use Nozbe to Manage Projects and Tasks

August 9, 2017
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Evernote, Nozbe, Personal Growth and Productivity, Software

Why i use nozbe to manage projects and tasks If you're running a small nonprofit, you are likely juggling a heavy load. Under the press of deadlines and unexpected challenges, you can easily forget to do important things, both on the job and in your personal life. You need a way of managing projects and tasks and, ideally, the tool for doing that should be something that integrates with other things you are already using. That's what led me to…

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Two Simple Meeting Agenda Assembly / Distribution Strategies to Enhance the Quality of Participation

July 17, 2017
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Books, Evernote, Management and Leadership, Nitro Pro, Software

Two Simple Meeting Agenda Assembly / Distribution Strategies to Enhance the Quality of Participation 1. The Meeting Agenda Assembly / Distribution Challenge As a nonprofit leader, you’ve lived through this scenario, only to have your blood pressure rise and your patience tested severely. Here it is: You arrive at a meeting that you organized. This could be a meeting of your board or it could be a meeting of a committee that you chair. One-third of the participants are on…

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Top 10 Nonprofit Management Apps for Saving Your Sanity and Advancing Your Cause

July 4, 2017
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Evernote, Software

10 Nonprofit Management Apps for Saving Your Sanity and Advancing Your Cause If much of advancing your nonprofit's cause rests on your shoulders, you need a few tools that will help you lighten that load. If you are going to build a base of donors or sponsors, moreover, you are going to need to build an email list and track and communicate with the people on that list in a professional way. Here are my top ten nonprofit management apps…

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Making Meetings Work

May 6, 2017
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Books, Personal Growth and Productivity

Updated 9/6/2017 The Problem "For many people, meetings are a lot like the weather - everyone talks about it, but no one does anything about it. Poor meetings, like bad weather, are accepted. Many have come to accept the 'fact' that they will be largely boring, unproductive, and generally a pain in the neck .... Like back pain, people think bad meetings just have to be endured." (John E. Tropman, Making Meetings Work: Achieving High Quality Group Decisions, Sage Publications…

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RESOURCES

December 28, 2016
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[siteorigin_widget class="SiteOrigin_Widget_Image_Widget"][/siteorigin_widget] Disclosure: Below are products and other resources in which I truly believe because I depend on them every day. I may earn a small commission for my endorsement, recommendation, testimonial and/or link to some of the resources below. (Many are absolutely FREE). Your purchase through the link will NOT result in an extra charge to you and will support my continued efforts to provide the latest and best content on helping you and your organization grow. [siteorigin_widget class="SiteOrigin_Widget_Headline_Widget"][/siteorigin_widget][siteorigin_widget class="SiteOrigin_Widget_Headline_Widget"][/siteorigin_widget]…

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