25 Ways to Increase Your Organization's Communication Capacity - Notes from NTC 2010

Limited staff and time means making the staff you have as efficient and effective as possible. How’s that accomplished? Clarify your strategy, invest in automation and get help from everyone. What follows is a list of 25 practical ways to increase communications capacity. The ideas listed cover technology, training, templates and more.

From NTC: Mobile, Wireless, and CRM

At this year's nonprofit technology conference, we were exposed to a vast array of organizations and companies involved with different aspects of helping nonprofits and technology mix well. Here are five, in my mind, stand-outs.

Is Your Internet Censored? Net Neutrality and Nonprofits

NTEN recently hosted an online "Ask the Expert" session: a discussion of the issues around Net Neutrality and what you can do to protect your right to communicate freely online. The recording and chat transcript are available online. Also, there is a Nonprofit Letter to the FCC available, should you be interested in getting involved.

T4T Events Occuring in National Artisan Gelato Month!

(Did you know May is National BBQ Month and National Salad Month?) Our two-part Intro to SQL class has already filled up, but perhaps there are other things which may interest you. As ever, we can't list all of our workshops here:

• Windows Movie Maker, May 19th (Denver)
• Prezi for Nonprofits, May 25th (Denver)
• Excel – Basics, May 18th (Denver)
• Excel – Basics, May 27th (Colorado Springs)

MCS Quick Tip: Word 2007 – How to Insert a Text Box Around Existing Text

Most people will agree that when they need a text box, they will first insert a text box and then type their text into the box. Unfortunately, this method involves a lot of re-sizing of the text box to view the text. Here's another method which can save a lot of formatting.