How are you doing? Wherever you are, I hope you and yours are successfully navigating the storms that continue to unfold around us. Please drop me a line and let’s check in with each other. In the meantime, I’ve got a few tips & thoughts to share on maintaining and building community during pandemic:
Stay in touch with all your stakeholders.
(But be super quick about it.) Keep your entire “family” in the fold. (In addition to your donors, keep up communications with your clients, staff, volunteers, and community stakeholders.) ...
Remember that time when you turned on your car and the sound was just… wrong? And the lights on your dashboard may have briefly yelled at you, but you just couldn’t tell if the problem was your alternator or the battery, or maybe a fuel-delivery issue… We’ve all made the “What noise is my car making?” query at least once. Sometimes you can make a best guess at the problem, but more often than not, you’re going to need a mechanic to both make a diagnosis and to properly fix the car. In the nonprofit world...
This is Part 4 of our "Your Website Might Only Need A Facelift" series. Last week, we talked about Social Media Buttons and User Friendliness. This week, we'll talk about ADA Compliance and Updated Technology & Security:
ADA Compliance
The Americans With Disabilities Act Guidelines help orgs create sites that are accessible to the deaf, blind and visually impaired. An ADA compliant website is designed in such a way to facilitate easy navigation by users who use screen readers, text-to-voice or other assistive technologies...
Welcome! Nonprofit Snapshot is going to do a brief experiment with Office Hours. We invite you to sign up for a half-hour session with Mickey Desai to talk about your issues in nonprofit management. No charge. Mickey will be available every Monday in July from 11am to noon for a half hour visit to help you and your nonprofit with whatever is on your mind. This is an experiment to judge interest and feasibility. Please do tell your peers, and please do join us for one of these sessions in July.
This is Part 3 of our "Your Website Might Only Need A Facelift" series. Last week, we talked about Visual & Design Trends and Content Relevance and Accuracy. This week, we'll talk about Social Media Buttons and being Mobile Friendly:
Social Media Buttons
Do you need them? Yes, you need them. Particularly if you have a blog (and you probably should have a blog—but we can talk about why, later). Social media sharing buttons make it easy for your visitors to share your org’s content on every available media channel...
At the start of pandemic, the metaphor I used was that it felt like we were all caught in the turbulence of a serious storm. It's such an odd thing to think that the ongoing turbulence might ever feel "normal" again. Even as we may get used to the strangeness, It's clear many of us are still struggling, both on a personal level and perhaps an organizational level. There remains too much uncertainty, too much turbulence remaining in the unknown. The confusion sometimes seems overwhelming, and may even feel hopeless.
But it’s not hopeless...