Influence

Well, here I am, once again, at another Nonprofit Technology Conference. This time, I'm in snowy Minneapolis. I've attended six – seven?...I've lost count – NTC events over the past ten years. Each is a wonderful opportunity to meet fellow innovators who are pusing forward the important missions of nonprofit organizations. It's a fun event. This year, I'm looking forward to a number of sessions.

First, I am helping to organize the following by Forum One staff:

Forum One Communications, CEO, Chris Wolz often, blogs, speaks, and presents on digital strategy for nonprofits. The Communications Network originally published this post, co-authored by Director of Mobile Services Nam-ho Park, online at comnetwork.org and it is cross posted below with permission.

Explaining the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to consumers outside the beltway can sometimes be like translating a foreign language. Health reform and health insurance exchanges can be tricky. An authoritative, credible online resource for this information is vital for state governments to provide their populations.

Today, I gave a webinar titled “Break Through the Clutter: Create  a Social Content Plan in Four Steps.” We will post a link to the entire webinar here within a few days.

During this presentation, I reviewed the following steps for helping your social content rise above the din:

If you are interested in more on this topic, watch our free webinar, Break Through the Clutter: Create a Social Content Plan in 4 Steps, on social content strategy.

This year’s Halloween went on without a hitch!

The book Humanize makes the case for innovating the way we lead and manage our organizations. It suggests that last century’s mechanical models of management have become outdated in today’s more social world, and our challenge now is to create more human organizations that are more open, trustworthy, generative, and courageous. These are the very same elements that made social media a success.

We've all been there. Your boss walks up to your desk and has a great vision for what the team needs to accomplish, and it’s up to you to make it happen, and you don’t know where to start. Maybe it’s not your boss, maybe it’s a client, or maybe it’s your idea, but you just don’t know how to bring this vision into reality. The challenge is so big or you’ve gotten so lost on the road you don’t know how to solve it. 

When we begin a conversation with an organization who has not worked with us previously, one of the first things out of their mouth is, “our website needs a redesign.”

But a full-blown, multi-month redesign project isn’t always the best way for an organization looking to swiftly increase their impact online. Often, there are alternative approaches to retooling an existing site and it can be difficult to know which efforts are worthwhile.