Tools and Resources
- If you need to know the date a webpage was published but there's no date in sight, follow the instructions detailed in Find the Date When a Web Page was First Published on the Internet. So cool. So easy.
- Hemingway Editor is an easy-to-use editor. Drop in already written text or start from scratch and Hemingway will check for adverbs, passive voice, complicated phrases, and hard-to-read sentences.
- 3 Tips for Writing a Great Survey Hook is a terrific help. Includes examples. (Textizen)
- Try Make A Gif if you need one that doesn't exist (or just too hard to find!). You can start from a photo, YouTube, or Facebook. You can also use the tool to store your gifs, even if created somewhere else. Free and premium.
- Okay, so the title is a bit much, but the content is good, with a number of ideas which can be implemented by businesses, nonprofits, and governments alike. So read 13 Extraordinary Marketing Ideas for Entrepreneurs. Some faves:
- Promote and describe partnerships on your website.
- Create valuable content: Take pictures, videos, and tell stories about what you do in real, human terms.
- Connect with the media. You can be a story source, provide background information, or a cheerleader of quality journalism.
At work
- Awake to Woke to Work: Building a Race Equity Culture (PDF): This guide from Equity in the Center describes seven levers that organizations can use to build momentum toward achieving a Race Equity Culture. Shared by Bridgespan. Free.
- Five Ways Your Nonprofit Can Successfully Adapt To New Technology is advice by nonprofits for nonprofits. (Forbes)
- Nonprofit Tech for Good will soon begin including remote job opportunities in e-newsletters as a service to nonprofit professionals. Be sure to sign up for the newsletter.
- Here are six signs that it’s time to quit your job (Fast Company)
Learn something
- Ballot Measure Advocacy for Nonprofits: Taking a Stand in 2018, August 9. Free.
- Faves from 44 Free Nonprofit Webinars for August 2018, August 1-15: Flash Class: Boomers, X-er's, Millennials, Oh My! Surfing the Next Wave of Philanthropy (August 2); Single Days of Service: Make 'em Work! (August 7); How to Produce Captivating Digital Content (August 14). (Wild Apricot)
Good reads
- Law schools are very diverse, so why aren't law firms? (Fast Company)
- 'My Soul and My Role Aligned' — How Hospice Workers Deal With Death (Pew)
- How to Bring the Ballot to Aging Americans (Pew)
- The Thai Cave Rescue: What Are the Leadership Lessons? (Knowledge@Wharton)
- The age of heroes is over, read "it's time to stop conflating skill with character." (Quartz)
- Who’s Accountable for an Outbreak?: interesting and provocative. (Ars Technica)
- I have a professional crush on Dr. Atul Gawande. He's doing amazing work in medicine. So read this; you'll see what I mean: Letting Go: What should medicine do when it can’t save your life?. (Note: Gawande has learned a lot since the column was written in 2010) (New Yorker)
