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Task Management Reviews: QuickBase
QuickBase is an online platform for managing projects and personal tasks. Known for their custom project management tools, QuickBooks has the ability to connect every team member, regardless of location, for major task productivity improvements. The Good: With QuickBase’s customization and flexibility can help your team become more productive and faster. This platform allows you and…
Read MoreTop 5 Applications for Marketing Automation
1. Real Magnet Real Magnet makes it easy to generate, manage and measure the impact of your personalized, engaging content. It’s as simple as choosing a template that matches your industry, and then selecting from a variety of possible campaigns—welcome, lead-generation , and webinar campaigns to event promotions. Prices range from $200-$1,350 monthly. Real Magnet also…
Read MoreTask Management Reviews: Trello
Trello is an online tool for managing projects and personal tasks. Used by millions of people from all over the world, Trello is known for their easy, free, flexible and visual way of helping you manage and organize any and all of your projects—personal and professional. The Good: Similar to the other platforms we’ve previously reviewed,…
Read MoreWhy Random Acts of Marketing Hurt Associations (And How to Stop Doing Them)
Why RAOM Happens RAOM happens when there’s little or no clear marketing strategy in place. As a result, your marketing efforts simply turn into a series of fragmented ideas and promotions that aren’t connected or aligned with any other operational strategy. You may be very busy doing these activities, but they are low-value and low-leverage work and…
Read MoreThe Do’s & Don’ts of Event Apps
Following is a list of do’s and don’ts based on some of our experiences with creating event apps: DO Take Advantage of Sponsorship Packages, DON’T Over-Advertise Having an event app provides the opportunity to highlight your sponsors and to help generate extra revenue. Some examples are: Be aware of how much sponsored content starts to take over the…
Read MoreWhen to Reassess Your Marketing Strategy
Do you know whether your marketing efforts are really working or are you simply performing “random acts of marketing” hoping that something will stick? Maybe you are acutely aware of weaknesses in your current digital marketing strategy but are challenged to make the needed changes. All associations need to periodically redefine and refresh their digital…
Read MoreHow to Build a Better Digital Strategy
You begin with asking five questions about your current digital state, says David D. DeLorenzo, CAE, chief information officer of DelCor—a digital strategy consulting firm—during .orgCommunity’s “Thirty on Thursday” webinar Aug. 25. Here are key considerations for developing your association’s digital strategy: Are we gathering information all the time from digital sources to make business…
Read MoreTask Management Reviews: Airtable
Airtable takes a different approach to the strict and structured applications we are accustomed to using by presenting the opportunity to build and create your own way of organizing anything—whether it’s your personal agenda to your professional task list—all housed in one application. The Good: As every great application should in today’s digital era, Airtable comes complete…
Read MoreTask Management Reviews: Office Planner
The Good: Everyone can see who is working on what at all times, and at all steps of the project. Office Planner’s dashboard can be organized into multiple sections: “not yet started”, “in process”, “completed,” and so on. You can drag and file tasks allowing for a clearer “to-do” list. You can also attach files around…
Read MoreTask Management Reviews: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly- Part 1
In this seven-part blog series, .orgSource reviews online task and project management tools that we predominantly use with our clients, our internal team, and as individuals—and offer the pros and cons of each. Today, we focus on Basecamp. Basecamp is a private, secured space online where colleagues can work together, organize and discuss everything they need…
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