Managing Your Information Effectively
There is life beyond email! Articles about using new tools to manage information more effectively.
- Writing Online: Best Practices
- Guidelines, tips, and hints for writing more effective web content. This is a wide-ranging article, but we hope it will help whether you are writing for a web page, email newsletter, action alert or anything else that will primarily be read online.
- Organizing Your Filesystem
- Some tips for how to keep your website's filesystem organized and free of unused or out-of-date items.
- Guidelines For Using CSS In Email Newsletters
- This article will explain the pitfalls to avoid and the methods to employ in order to get email newsletters to display consistently across many email clients.
- A Case Study of Drip Campaigns
- Drip campaigns are an automated series of emails, allowing for automatic opt-in based on triggers, and do not require any ongoing maintenance once launched. This is the story of how ONE/Northwest is using this concept to power our web support email series.
- Introducing Google Analytics
- Google Analytics is a free, powerful tool for tracking a host of interesting web statistics such as: number of unique visitors, time spent on pages, keyword searches used to find content on your site, and more!
- Tips for Using Visual Editors
- Here are some easy, but powerfully useful tricks when using visual editors on the web
- Salesforce Bandwidth Notes
- Important information about the bandwidth usage of Salesforce.
- Creating the Relationship-Centric Organization
- A great piece by Paul Hagen on making the leap from "donor databases" to "constituent relationship management."
- NTEN's 2006 Nonprofit IT Staffing Report
- A great report about nonprofit IT staffing practices.
- Signing Documents Electronically with EchoSign
- Signing documents (like contracts) online can eliminate a lot of paper-shuffling hassle. Here's how we use EchoSign to do it.
- Emptying Your Inbox: How to Take Control of Your Email
- Simple, practical tips for getting your email under control
- Bloglines and Del.icio.us: Two Tools For Uncluttering Your Inbox
- Are you drowning in email that you don't have time to read? And do you also feel a gnawing sense that you're missing out on critical information? Welcome to the paradox of the "information age." While we can't help you stop the world from turning, in this article we'll introduce you to Bloglines and del.icio.us, two exciting new tools that can help you tame your inbox, find relevant information that you're missing, and share it more effectively with your colleagues and allies.
- Desktop Search Recommendations
- In the past year, a number of exciting new "desktop search" software products have been released. These products allow you to perform nearly-instantaneous searches of content on your computer -- including documents, emails and more. The contenders in this suddenly-hot market include free offerings from Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Copernic, and more. Which one is best? Are they all the same? We've put them through their paces here at ONE/Northwest -- read on to find out what we think!
