Flag Folly: HGTV’s Crisis Management Response A crisis management response was required after a predictably polarizing article published We never seem to run dry on examples of easily preventable crises. Last week, an article on Home and Garden TV’s website discussing Fourth of July table settings suggested that an American flag be used as a …

Businesses are constantly looking for new ways to reach customers, and have found that using Twitter is one of the best methods to market through social media. They can connect with customers and provide better customer service, as well as help in branding their business.

A Guest Posting by Mari Lane Gewecke (The second of two guest postings on this subject) A client contacted me after being approached by a donor database sales representative with a proposal to solve their donor retention challenges by replacing their current database. The feature in the new software that most interested my client was …

Here are a few habits for growing your business during the early years: Be Consistent With Side Tasks (create checklists, follow up on them) Clean and Tidy Up (literally and figuratively) Keep Books (too often overlooked or underemphasized in startups) Prepare for Tax Season Schedule Interviews (forSstaff) Before You’re Desperate Create and Follow A Business …

What FDA Crisis Management Plan? Govt agencies surprise by making crisis management simple, web-based Crisis management isn’t just for business. There are plenty of risks in daily life, and the more equipped to help prevent crises in our personal lives we are, the better off we’ll be. In recent years, several government organizations have really …

I admit it: program budgets, operating budgets, budget narratives, budget justifications, and audited financial statements are not some of my favorite things. Fortunately for me, and possibly many grant managers, developing program budgets and other financial information needed for grant proposals is a team effort. Previously, I outlined the financial information to include in your …

The day of your big presentation preparation is fast approaching. You have been amassing plenty of facts, thoughts, photos, charts, and graphs, enough to fill a large file. Now the big question is how do you organize it? One great way to proceed is to start from a big-picture viewpoint. What is the point of …

Actions of those who represent your organization can result in a need for crisis management Celebrities are commonly used as spokespeople for everything from sodas to cars to underwear, but they certainly make for risky investments. As a quick look at the TMZ website (warning, not always SFW) shows, celebrity seems to breed controversy in …

If Implemented As Proposed, Changes Could Cut CFC Revenues to Nonprofits by at least 50% HELP SAVE THE CFC !! POST YOUR COMMENTS ON THE PROPOSED CFC REGULATIONS The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has proposed massive changes to how the Combined Federal Campaign works. There are more than 40 pages of proposed regulations, and …

Actually, this is PART II of Trainers Who Talk, Talk, Talk with Nothing to Say… This is a good example of a blog that ran away with itself or a writer who lost control or became too passionate. It started as a way of demonstrating presentations or training had to have substance and at the …