Effective Communication Via Status Reports Format Writing status or progress reports are not fun, but are a necessity. It’s like going to the doctor for a checkup – it’s not fun to go, but it’s a must-do necessity to see if you are well or not. Status report formats are a way of communicating to …

CFC Special Events & Resources There are many/various types of CFC special events that are held before and during the solicitation period of a CFC campaign. The best known are the CFC charity fairs, but other special events and resources that a CFC charity should be aware of are: Speaker’s Bureaus Loaned Executives Open Houses …

You may have heard the expression, ‘Energy flows where Attention Goes’. I’ve used this principle many times to be mindful of where I’m feeding my attention and energy. Lately I’ve been paying attention to and receiving wonderful energy from grateful clients. Sharing Gratitude This week I received two lovely emails from clients who told me …

According to eMarketer, more and more companies are shifting their focus to content marketing and using it as a lead generation tool.

U.S. CPSC putting social media and e-comms to work to better protect the public Just yesterday we ran a post applauding the crisis management efforts put forth by FEMA’s Ready.org, and now we have another example of excellent crisis communications to share, this time from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. These are the guys …

What would you consider training in a truly foreign country to be? One where you neither speak nor write or read the language, right? I’m not going to make you guess. If you read Part I, you know that I’m talking about Japan. The Japanese actually have three kinds of writing, but I suppose if …

Training in another country is not like training in Cincinnati when you live in Florida. Even when that training is simple. There are some other considerations. In the Far East, or Middle East for that matter, there may not be many signs in English or anything close to English unless it is a picture of …

As I perused some of my older blogs to ensure they are still up-to-date, I discovered an article I wrote awhile back discussing the question: are condensed progams, hybrid and online classes the answer for students in education today or even trainees in a part online/part classroom session? I suppose today I might have come …

Apple is in trouble as it faces court cases and political scrutiny without a cushion of goodwill Apple is infamous for its approach, or, perhaps more accurately, lack of approach, when it comes to creating goodwill. While this approach stood as an anomaly in the PR world for some time, the company is now facing …

…OR WHATEVER YOU WANT TO CALL IT !! Most non-profit organizations have (or surely should have), standing committees for finance, investment, marketing & PR, nominating and evaluating board members, and (where needed) building & grounds. From long experience, for some unknown-to-me reason, there is not usually a fundraising steering committee in place devoted to ensuring …