I’m honored that my recent post “Development in Demand: Challenges for Fundraising Professionals & Employers” was among the four selected for the May Nonprofit Blog Carnival, hosted by Mark Horoszowski on his Helping Help blog.
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A big thank you to Jackson Wightman for inviting me to contribute a guest post to his blog Proper Propaganda.
My post, “Social? Me?“, details my journey into social media, including my first forays with Facebook, my steep learning curve with Twitter, and my belated blogging beginnings. I’ve included a few lessons learned, and my much bigger list of lessons yet to be learned.
Check it out and let me know what you think. While you’re there, check out Jackson’s, um, unique approach to PR.
I’m honored that my recent post “How to Be A Great Nonprofit Employer” was among the seven selected as the best nonprofit posts of the month in the April Nonprofit Blog Carnival, hosted by Jeff Brooks on his Future Fundraising Now blog.
Delighted that my recent post “Human Resources Maturity and the Three P’s” on the Mission Connected Blog was included in the 4/28 Carnival of HR, which “features recent posts from the best of the HR and management blogging community”!
I’m thrilled that my recent post “The Power of Why” on the Mission Connected Blog was included in the 4/14 Carnival of HR, which “features recent posts from the best of the HR and management blogging community”!
I am happy to announce that I am now a contributor to the Mission Connected Blog!
Mission Connected, which features topics of interest to job-seekers and employers in the nonprofit sector, is the blog of execSearches.com. ExecSearches.com’s job board has served the nonprofit, government, education and health sectors since 1999, helping to fill executive, mid-level and fundraising positions. ExecSearches.com’s goal is to be the most efficient, online source for connecting mission and talent.
My contributions to Mission Connected will focus on human resources and management issues facing nonprofit organizations. My first post is “Are Your Executive Compensation Bases Covered?” You can check it out here!
I grew up in a family of football fans. As I understand it, somewhere around the age of two, they sat me down in front of a televised professional football game and told me “you’re going to watch this, and you’re going to like it”. Fortunately for me, I did like it, and I still do. Somewhere along the line I became a New York Jets fan, but I’m hardly rabid in that regard. I’m much more interested in watching a competitive game between two skilled teams. I consider myself a student of the game, having picked up a fair bit of knowledge about its history, rules, strategies, and culture.
One phrase I’ve heard countless times over the years from football announcers on television and radio is “getting off the schneid”. As long as I can remember, I’ve known what was meant by this phrase. It refers to a team scoring its first points in a game, or winning its first game in a season, usually after being stuck at zero points or wins for an extended period of time. I don’t think I’ve ever uttered the phrase aloud, in part because I had absolutely no idea of its origins or connotations beyond the realm of football announcers. Just recently, I decided to look it up. I was surprised to learn that the phrase comes from the card game gin rummy (I’ve never been much of a card player), but was satisfied to have learned something new and to know that, should the situation arise, I’d feel confident using it in conversation.
That brings me, finally, to the point of this post. With regard to blogging, it is long past time that I get off the schneid.
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