Friday, November 16, 2012

6 Tips for Managing Project Requests from Staff without Losing Your Own Priorities | NTEN

6 Tips for Managing Project Requests from Staff without Losing Your Own Priorities | NTEN: f your job involves doing projects for other staff – such as posting online content, IT tech support, or database management – you may find it challenging to manage your own daily To Do List and to plan farther ahead. Juggling competing deadlines and projects, you may often delay your own assignments to make way for more immediate needs or to keep your “clients” happy.

Here are a few tips for setting and sticking to your priorities while also getting done the work you need to do for others

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Review: Online tools make Sandy fundraising easier - CBS News

Review: Online tools make Sandy fundraising easier - CBS News: The Sunday after Sandy made landfall two weeks ago, I was supposed to run my 50th marathon in New York, 10 years to the weekend since I had run my first marathon, also in New York. It would have been a celebratory affair. Then Sandy came along, and after days of intense debate, the marathon was abruptly canceled. I channeled my energies instead toward raising money for relief.

Of the several sites I could have used to organize my fundraising campaign, I chose Crowdrise because I could link my efforts with a broader campaign by the marathon's organizers to turn the event into a Race to Recover.

Tumblr, Photo Blogger Raise $100K for Hurricane Sandy Relief | News & Opinion | PCMag.com

Tumblr, Photo Blogger Raise $100K for Hurricane Sandy Relief | News & Opinion | PCMag.com: In less than 24 hours, a joint Hurricane Sandy fundraising effort from Tumblr and New York photo blog Humans of New York (HONY) has topped their goal of raising $100,000 for victims of the storm.

CRM’s value grows with addition of social | TMA Resources

CRM’s value grows with addition of social | TMA Resources: While the utility of CRM systems has long been established, the rise of social media has made the technology even more valuable to organizations, as a recent study revealed.

Social and CRM
Destination CRM reported that the study, conducted by Nucleus Research, found that development and deployment cycles for CRM are becoming increasingly fast and CRM tools are yielding richer insight, thanks largely to the growing integration of social media capabilities.