Archive for January, 2007

The Pros (and a few cons) of Using e-Newsletters

Wednesday, January 17th, 2007

This is part two of a four part series written to help your non-profit organization deliver your newsletter electronically. In part one I outlined a couple of the reasons non-profits cite for not going electronic and gave my thoughts on why those reasons are full of holes. In ...

Announcing VouchOn.com (and seeking beta testers)

Tuesday, January 16th, 2007

My pal and excellent programmer, Noel, from Southern California and I have been working for the last several months to develop a simple, easy-to-use website called VouchOn.com. I had the idea for the site during a business trip to Bangor, ME. Lying on the bed at the Holiday Inn and trying ...

Your Promotion Awaits (or “Saving loads of money for your non-profit by delivering your newsletter electronically”)

Monday, January 15th, 2007

I'm certain the "powers that be" have considered delivering your non-profit's newsletter electronically, but I also know that, in many cases, that's where it ends - at consideration. Let's take a few minutes to find out why the idea of electronic delivery dies prematurely and how you, as a ...

5 Free Tools to Help Your Non-Profit Succeed Online and Off

Thursday, January 11th, 2007

While doing a bit of late night reading over at Consultant Commons, I ran across a post outlining a few pieces of online software aimed at helping npo's do some things online - on the cheap. While cheap is good, I am of the belief that today's open source ...

Blogging the Bill Gates Keynote at CES2007

Sunday, January 7th, 2007

I've always been excited by those heavy-hitting bloggers who blog "live and on location" from the likes of MacWorld, SXSW, and CES. So tonight, as I prepare to watch Bill Gates' keynote at CES, I'm gonna do it. (Please ignore the fact that I am neither at CES nor a ...

The Skill of Flow

Saturday, January 6th, 2007

"Entering and maintaining the highly creative flow state is a skill, not a blessing, an accident, or a fluke." The truth is, I heard of Mihály Csíkszentmihályi long before Steve Pavlina ever entered my feed reader. I learned about the concept of Flow from a mentor nearly ten years ...