What To Do After The Send

Ever feel like you are just sending out email after email, shouting your message at the top of your lungs over and over again to mixed results? The key is to make sure that you send follow-up emails to your patrons after you’ve sent the original sales email.  This keeps your message top of mind without simply sending the same thing over and over again. One of the simplest ways to send email follow-ups that get …

better living through version control

Git With The Program And Don’t Stress When Deleting Stuff

There’s this sinking feeling you get when you delete a file or revise something you’ve been writing and forget to save. It’s like, “Wait, what did I just click OK about?” The system asks you if you are sure and you get so used to clicking OK, that you just do. That’s when you realize you just agreed that your hard work can be safely deleted forever. Maybe you immediately open Google and try find …

Stages of Board Life Cycle

Stages of Board Life Cycle

Non-Profit Quarterly recently published a piece charting out the cyclic nature of boards of directors. If ever you have been frustrated with your board and wondered why it is acting the way it is or if you love your board and prayed the great dynamic would stay that way forever, it is worth reading the piece to better understand what is happening and where things are probably headed. In the piece, author Julia Classen examines …

String Substitution

Hidden Productivity Gems: Using Adobe Bridge To Remove Unwanted Characters From Filenames

Adobe Bridge CC, a digital asset management app, is not only a hidden productivity gem, it’s one of the rare Adobe apps that is 100 percent free. If you don’t already use it, swing by the Bridge CC page and download a copy. Once you do, you’re going to save yourself an amazing amount of time cleaning media file names using this little trick. Batch Rename If you already use Bridge CC, you probably know …