Using a wiki to manage your committee
As the Chair of 2020 Communications Trust its my job to manage our governance bodies, including the full meetings of trustees and the monthly Admin committee.
Naturally we try to use the tools we promote, starting in the old days with emails and attachments. That soon gets totally unwieldy as participants add their comments, want to edit or amend documents and add or amend agenda items. The secretarial load soon becomes impossible. Time to webify the process. [Read more →]
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December 14, 2009 No Comments
Webinar invitation: online collaboration using free tools case study
Pressure to reduce travel costs and the carbon footprint associated with flying to meetings led scientists from the Australasian Conversation Breeding Specialist Group (CBSG) to trial running a conservation planning process using free web tools.
Focused on saving the endangered mala, which inhabits Australia's dry centre, an online workshop process unrolled over a two month period from early August 2009.
The online workshop mimics a similar process typically run using face-to-face meetings. Just as important as the technology (which included Google Sites, Vyew web conferencing and Skype) is adapting processes and activities from the face-to-face world, and mentoring around technology uptake for the participants.
Caroline Lees, co-convenor of CBSG Australasia, has generously agreed to talk about the workshop process, including sharing some early lessons and reflections. Although this case study is about a conservation project the lessons have very broad applicability to any organisation wanting to trial online collaboration at low or no cost.
If you’d like to find out how to make effective use of online tools, come along to an online seminar. Find out more about webinar.
Webinar details:
2pm Monday 23 November
RSVP required. Use the contact form or email me and I will send you login information.
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November 17, 2009 2 Comments
Measuring the Success of Your Online News Releases
We here, and many others, constantly push the value of online tools and resources for communicating with your stakeholders. But how do you know they are doing any good? For some ideas on how to measure that, PRWeb has a free online seminar that you, or your PR or comms people might like to check out.
If you’re still lugging a clip book around to demonstrate that your online news programs are successful, you might want to bring your strategy into the 21st century. With so many marketing channels available today – blogs, social media, SEO, and RSS feeds – you can’t continue to rely on measurement tools like press clippings.
Join guest speaker Greg Jarboe, president and co-founder of SEO-PR, for an hour long webinar on Measuring the Success of Your Online News Releases. Learn how you can:
* Use current analytics to measure your online news efforts
* Apply SEO results to improve your search rankings
* Measure the impact of your social media networks and blogs
* Build an effective PR plan and strategy using what you’ve learnedEvent Date: October 21, 2009 2:00-3:00 PM EDT (New York)
Cost: This Webinar is FREE
I'm going to be tied up with a bunch of meetings over that time but a 7-8 am NZ time for it isn't too bad. if you decide to take it in, let me know how it goes.
October 15, 2009 No Comments
Google sets up The Data Liberation Front – a good thing
With all the talk about cloud compouting and SaaS (software as a service) its good to see some people have our interests at heart. One of the key questions about hosting your data on someone else's servers focuses on what happens if you can't get to that data, either because your connection is down or their connection is down or,. worst case, they have gone bankrupt.
So when you sign up for the service, maybe item one should be what happens to the data when they fail. This might be the manifesto:the Data Liberation Front [Read more →]
September 18, 2009 No Comments
Email campaign tool for small organisations
It used to be that snazzy email campaigns to your membership and supporters was an expensive proposition. One organisation I work with has been quoted $10,000 annually to set up and manage a monthly email newsletter. Not even close.
But lately I've been working with an online tool that does pretty much everything you could want with an email campaign tool and is priced right.
Up to six newsletters a month and up to 100 subscriber is free, up to 500 subscribers is US$10 a month and up to 2,500 subscribers is US$30 a month. Those are prices I can believe in. Check out MailChimp.com [Read more →]
September 2, 2009 2 Comments
