Sarah Palin shares nothing but a chromosome with Hillary Clinton. She is Phyllis Schlafly, only younger. Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It’s about making life more fair for women everywhere.
LA Times on September 7, 2008
“The water doesn’t know how old you are.”
--Dara Torres, 41-year-old Olympian.
According to SeniorJournal.com, the states with the highest concentration of people age 65 and up are Florida (2,897,383 seniors), Pennsylvania (1,901,764 seniors), West Virginia (277,220 seniors) and North Dakota (93,837 seniors).
‘Vampire power’ is the electricity and energy that appliances use up simply by being plugged in. This means that even when your aren’t using your computer, if it is plugged in, it’s costing you money. However, David Pogue, a technology writer for the New York Times featured a new product that helps to cut down on vampire power: a new gadget called the Power Saving SurgeArrest. The SurgeArrest is essentially a surge protector with a brain. You plug your computer into the first plug, and then plug all the devices associated with your computer (printer, speakers, monitor) into the subsequent plugs. When your computer goes to sleep or is turned off, the SurgeArrest registers that the computer is no longer drawing power, and thus cuts the power to the other devices, reducing your vampire power. You can see the device here on Amazon.
Google has a variety of free applications to help nonprofits get organized, ranging from online calendars to website analytics. Check them out at www.google.com/nonprofits.
Want to keep track of organization’s media hits? Just set up a google alert and receive up to the minute updates straight to your inbox as soon as news hits the wires. To set up an alert, click here.
Check out Free Rice, a website that features an interactive vocabulary quiz. For every word that you correctly define, 20 grains of rice will be donated through the UN World Food Program.
iGoogle lets you customize your internet homepage so that it features anything and everything that is of interest to you. You can easily add in RSS feeds for your favorite blogs, track your portfolio, get weekly recipe tips, or play tetris when work is slow. To get started on your own iGoogle page, click here.
The Showcase of Fundraising Innovation and Inspiration, www.sofii.org, is a new website that is being created to allow fundraisers to share their experiences and best practices. Although it is still being filled in with content, it already has a solid foundation of resources. Registration is free, simply click on “Welcome to SOFFI/what is SOFFI?” to learn how to register.
In the spirit of this election season, be sure you are registered to vote! Click here to fill out a quick online form and get the appropriate voter registration form for you sent emailed straight to your inbox.
Have you ever wanted to get feedback on a particular item or issue? Using BuzzDash you can easily post a customized poll on your website. Simply register with BuzzDash and then create your poll! Once your poll has been created, BuzzDash will email you the appropriate code for embedding the poll within your own website, Facebook or MySpace page. Easy as pie.
Take our New York Times columnist poll!
Tired of toiling in silence in your office? Go to Pandora Radio, a free online radio station that streams customized radio stations (commercial free) that match your musical interests.
Have all sorts of tech questions but don’t know where to look for answers? Check out Tech Soup, a great website devoted to providing user friendly information about how to use technology to promote nonprofits.
‘Brand relevance’ refers to the ability of a target audience to feel connected to the messaging, imagery, and other vital elements associated with an organization, company or product.
Do you need to send an email to 500 people but don’t want to enter 500 email addresses individually? Get an account with My Emma, a user-friendly email marketing service that helps you to easily send stylish emails to all of your contacts in just a few clicks.
The term, ‘brand repositioning’ refers to the transformation of a previously defined image or perception to make it more relevant or compelling to a particular audience.
Is the URL to your site or your video on YouTube long and confusing? Go to DecentURL and with just a couple of clicks, they will modify your link to make it easier to remember.
The term, ‘brand image’ refers to how the public perceives an organization, company, or product and the things they stand for.
You don’t need Adobe Acrobat to save a document as a PDF. To save a Word document as a PDF using Word for Macintosh follow the following steps:
1. Click on the ‘File.’
2. Select the ‘Print’ option.
3. Click on the ‘PDF’ button with the dropdown arrow (located on the lower left hand side of the window).
4. Choose, ‘Save as PDF.’
Voila!
Do you work for an organization that would benefit from policy changes? Search Thomas, the Library of Congress’ database of legislation to see if there are bills pending that relate to your organization and could help to advance your cause. If you find one, send a letter to your Member of Congress asking him or her to co-sponsor the bill.
37signals.com is a website that offers web-based applications that help coordinate and organize your business’ efforts. Click here to learn more about their applications.
Go to www.yourdictionary.com for reliable translation dictionaries in many languages.
Online groups are a great resource for joining an online community where you can share business resources, reach out for help, or simply bounce ideas off of people. We like yahoo groups, check them out at groups.yahoo.com.
You could make a World of Difference in people’s lives by helping to coordinate a presentation by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) in your community. The ADL can organize a variety of different presentations to help tackle tough issues like anti-bias, bullying, and sexual harassment. To learn more about the ADL and scheduling a workshop, click here.