Communications Toolkit: Done! Excellent resource! I’ve learned a lot and will put it to practice very shortly.
Now reading “Why Bad Presentations Happen to Good Causes“. This book tells you all about how you can greatly improve your presentations, by understanding what you are doing wrong and sometimes don’t realise, and what you can do to get your message through to your audience. This book is free for non-profit organizations.
Archive for March, 2006
Presentable reading
Thursday, March 30th, 2006Cause Communication’s Communications Toolkit
Friday, March 24th, 2006This is what I’m reading right now. I’ll leave the “Presentations” book for after this one:
“Cause Communication’s Communications Toolkit — A guide to navigating communications for the nonprofit world is a comprehensive resource offering practical information in virtually every area of communications — from how to develop and budget a communications plan to what tools you need to help raise awareness and funds”.
This is being a fantastic resource for me, who am more and more involved in a non profit cultural association. I am trying to apply some of the advice contained on the book, and I’m sure results will folow. Communication is in almost everything we do, so take some time to get a copy of this book.
Read on, Dorothy, read on
Thursday, March 16th, 2006A couple of days ago, I finished reading “Getting Real – The smarter, faster way to build a successful web application“.
According to their own description, “Getting Real details the business, design, programming, and marketing principles of 37signals. The book is packed with keep-it-simple insights, contrarian points of view, and unconventional approaches to software design. This is not a technical book or a design tutorial, it’s a book of ideas”.
This is all true, this book has invaluable tips and practical advice on building, launching ans maintaining successful Web Applications. Or, put more simply, how to cut the bullshit out of the development cycle. A must read!
Moving on, I’ve started reading “Why Bad Presentations Happen to Good Causes“, by Andy Goodman.
From the site: “Based on unprecedented research into presentations given by nonprofits, foundations, and government agencies, this new book will show why so many presentations fail to engage, educate or persuade and how you can avoid the most common mistakes”. My oppinion will follow, but from what I’ve seen so far, about 98% of people who make presentations should read this. A bad presentation ruins ANY content, no mater how valid.
Getting Real
Friday, March 3rd, 2006I just bought 37 signals new book “Getting Real – The smarter, faster way to build a successful web application“. I read the free excerpts, and it was enough for me to buy the whole thing. Like me, over 1750 people already did the same in the first couple of days! I’m a big 37S fan. They are redefining what the web is all about. Lets get busy!