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PERSONAL RANT ALERT: I think that meetings to EXCHANGE information (unless it’s a really big announcement) are a huge waste of time. Meetings that are meant for brainstorming or collaboration are energizing and amazing. The others are a snooze-fest. What’s even worse is that you are taking people away from the “real” work so in order to meet deadlines and expectations they work late into the night or over the weekend.
The Mamas at The Cause Cafe are here to rescue you from bad, stinky cheese meetings. Let's do this!
BONUS: Favorite Apps - Digital Marketing Meeting Tools
Slack could significantly reduce meetings and your
nonprofit and may even replace email. It’s basically a cloud-based program and app that let’s your employees create groups or workspaces to talk to each other, share files, send notifications and more. The other great benefits of Slack are that you can create channels or basically conversations around different topics. This means that you’re only inviting certain people to specific channels based on who really needs to be there. Also you can send direct messages to people while you are engaged in chatting with
everyone in your channel.
Example: you ask for an update on an upcoming event in your Slack
channel. The other employees who have been invited to the event channel are immediately notified that you have asked a question. They jump in and respond, collaborate, clarify. While this is happening, you realize that the website has not been changed to reflect a change to the event. So you send a direct message to Mr. IT to fix it ASAP while the channel conversation is ongoing.
Rally lets you create a simple, straightforward poll where
attendees can vote on a day for an event that works best for them. It also includes an open comment
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