If email is the lifeblood of nonprofit communication, then executives are its heart. Nonprofit leaders can make or break an organization's capacity for online communication, whether it's because of their own email habits, their support for authentic voices, or in their understanding of the assets that often lay hidden in the veins and arteries of the flow of email. This series will empower you to seize on email as a tool for realizing your vision of communication for your organization.

The elusive and powerful concept of 'voice' has emerged as a key factor in the success of online communication. This is particularly true of email, because it is such a personal medium. Our seminar will face this challenge by covering how to:

• Avoid the common destructive patterns of executive influence on communication
• Face the personal and organizational barriers to the use of a clear voice
• Use low time commitment tactics to provide communication leadership
• Make transparancy an organizational value in order to build trust
• Empower other authentic voices in your organization

This executive seminar is right for you if you want to have a positive influence on your organization's online presence, if you want to set an example for other staff and volunteers, or if you want to help build your organization's culture, over the long term. This seminar will give you both strategies and tactics for achieving these goals.

The sheer volume of email communication has created a multitude of challenges for nonprofit organizations. Not the least of these challenges is the difficulty of setting effective and empowering priorities in executive communication. For many people, email has become the new To Do List, which grows larger by the day. Our seminar will address this issue by teaching you how to:

• Understand the key contributors to being overwhelmed by email
• Create protocols of communication with regular correspondents
• Effectively use the emerging etiquette of email correspondence
• Translate your own email experience into effective outbound communication
• Set an example for staff and volunteers

This executive seminar is right for you if you ever feel like you have too much email, that you take too much time for some and not enough for others, or that your own email habits affect the work of your colleagues. If you are looking for a realistic approach to dealing with email, this seminar will give you such tools.

Despite its ubiquity, email is an underutilized resource. It's in email that we record what we care about, who we work with, and what we know. Email, as a recent article stated, is the new database. Our seminar will look at how to tap this hidden asset, by teaching you how to:

• Use email for successful communication planning
• Find useful patterns and information in your own email
• Find knowledge, experts, and opportunities in your organization's email
• Respect privacy of staff and still leverage email as an asset

This executive seminar is right for you if you're fascinated with the insights and information hidden in the routine flow of communication, if you have ever lost information in your past email communication, or if you are a systems thinker. This seminar will deliver some cutting edge thinking along with immediately applicable techniques.