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Tips to Manage Your Online Identity Through Your Gmail Account

Written by jessica on February 1, 2012 — Leave a Comment

As an Americorps VISTA, I am forbidden from taking a second job while serving my year here with Aspiration. In an effort to possibly win some money or other free things, I have found myself registering with a few online survey companies. Understanding that their legitimacy and security may not be utmost and weary of [...]

Managing Multiple People Doing Online Communications

Written by Matt on January 13, 2012 — Leave a Comment

Social networks were not invented for ease of organizational use. Individual accounts… Attached to personal networks… New Year’s Photos seen by all… Cats and Dogs LIVING TOGETHER. Many a sticky situation has arisen from the organization using tools designed for individuals to try to get actual work done. Then trying to add a couple more [...]

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A Template for Calendaring Your Messaging

Written by Matt on September 30, 2011 — Leave a Comment

One of the best practices often overlooked by many “I’m spinning too many plates on long skinny poles” nonprofits is calendaring out the messaging your organization is going to send ahead of time. Akin to flossing, calendaring your messaging ahead of time is something that organizations think that they should do but don’t see the [...]

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Are Your Emails Skim? Or 2%?

Written by Matt on September 16, 2011 — Leave a Comment

The first rule of email messaging as an organization is that no one reads emails. People skim emails. Making your email blasts as skimmable as possible is the best way to get your point across to the people you are trying to reach. When it comes to email newsletters, skimmability becomes even more necessary as [...]

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Email Best Practice Questions on Answr

Written by Matt on July 27, 2011 — Leave a Comment

There have been some great questions around email communications submitted and answered on our sister (beta) site Answr and I wanted to throw up (?) a quick blog post to highlight a few of them. Answr is a site dedicated to questions and answers around nonprofit online communications (focusing mainly on email at the moment). [...]

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How to Manage an Email Discussion List to Invite Collaboration

Written by Matt on June 29, 2011 — Leave a Comment

Some Nonprofit Tech Discussion Lists NTEN Discuss NOSI Riders Tech Riders Talk Open Translation Tools Email discussion lists or listservs (name comes from a specific piece of software called LISTSERV), while increasingly overshadowed by social networks, can still be a great way for a like-minded community to carry conversations and discuss issues online. Originally, discussion [...]

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