A Carnival of New Year's Resolutions

This week I am hosting the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants. Since the New Year is approaching, I asked contributors to provide some New Year's resolutions, or tips for those long to-do lists we all have for 2009.

1. Start with my own Bookish Resolutions for 2009 that will help you get off to a running, and well-read, start in the New Year.
2. Then move on to Larry Checco's submission of 5 Resolutions for a Tough New Year to learn why and how to keep up your public presence even though the economy is tanking.
3. James Berigan at Top School Fundraisers provides Top Ten School Fundraising Resolutions for 2009, including "eliminate low-participation, low income fundraisers, and replace them with higher percentage, more popular events." Berigan tells how to do that too!
4. Work for a nonprofit association? Fed up with slow, painful process at your board meetings and general membership meetings? Dan Lynch gives us his New Year's Resolutions for Deliberative Assemblies.
5. Josh Nelson of the Hatcher Blog suggests five resolutions that will help us get into the "new media." Do these five things and you should be good to go!
6. Allison Jones of Entry Level Living writes about how to get your constituents involved in your social media. Learn why you should do this and how.
7. Planning on some heavy duty donor calling in the New Year? Be sure to read Gavin Ingham's 7 Tips for Confident Cold Calling. You can easily translate these tips to your nonprofit purposes.
8. Got an itch to improve the SEO of your website in the new year? Tushar Pant of the SEO Blog has compiled a list of the Top 100 Directories that you might want to get listed in. Directories provide a way to get a link back to your website and increase traffic.
9. Maybe 2009 will be the year you finally create your "elevator speech." If so, bone up on how to create a good one with Create Your Elevator Speech at Terry Dean's Internet Business Coaching blog.
10. Finally, Steve Cunningham, of Polar Unlimited, sends us into the New Year with a short but pithy New Year's resolution that is also a reminder of the nonprofit bottom line.

We would love to hear your resolutions for 2009. Please pass them on in the comments.

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