Please contribute the resources you've found useful, including adding documents that you'd like to share with others. Use the categories here or add others.
If you have a document you want to provide to others, you can upload it. Download this document to read how to do this.
Or, you can send it to me and I will upload it.
Membership
Programming
Financial management
- Treasurer Process Presentation
- Treasurer duties
- Chart of Accounts
- Treasurer Procedures
- Cash Flow Forecast
- Budget
- Quarterly Financial Report
- How to Read Quarterly Financial Report
- Audit Procedure
- Auditor's Letter
All contributed by Brandt Denniston, Springfield Historical Society, NH
Communications: Public relations
*Set up free Google alerts to see when your society or event or an individual from your organization is mentioned online in a web site, including news websites, and blogs.
Communications: Print materials
- Business card - Created by a volunteer using desktop-publishing software and then printed on a home printer. Contributed by Lee Wright, Marlborough Historical Society, MA
Communications: Websites and e-mail
Presentation from Idea Exchange (11/1/08): The Web on $4/month
- Ground rules
- The Internet is the first place many people look for information
- Enables you to extend the reach of your organization
- It doesn’t cost much money—and you don’t need technical skills.
- There are many options for everything; these are some I/we use.
- You can’t “break” the Internet—so jump in and try.
- Getting started
- Register a domain name and put up some information: 1 and 1 is one of many companies that offers domain name registration and the hosting with online site-building tools]
- Add visitor tracking: Stat Counter is one of several free tools available
- Set up e-mail addresses to forward to existing accounts
- Add content
- Link to relevant books, such as town histories, online at Google books.
- Add a map—maybe even a Google map with a "streetview".
- Add photos: Free photo hosting at Flickr; viewers can display those pictures on your site as a slideshow using a free tool, such as the Picto Browser.
- Make long documents available through free document hosting and streaming with Scribd.
- Add video: Free video hosting with YouTube.
- Help people find you
- Include the website address in your communications and materials
- Have your city or town add a link from their site
- Add your information to Google Maps
- Add text and pictures to your Wikipedia listings for your city or town and other related entries.
- Search for the name of your society. When you find a listing in a directory, submit an update to that site that includes your web address.
- Use other online tools to make it easier for people to get to know you
- Event registration, which is free for free events, through Eventbrite.
- Surveys, free for a base package, through SurveyGizmo.
- E-mail newsletter, free for non-profits, through Vertical Response.
Notes:
- If you find VerticalResponse to not be very user-friendly, I agree. There are many e-mail providers, and if you want to spend a little money, you'll get something that's easier to use. In our case in Marlborough, we didn't want to spend what it would have cost from other providers.
- As you'll notice, Vertical Response includes surveys as a paid add-on. It appeared to me that I could get more, and it would be free, through SurveyGizmo.
Contributed by Lee Wright, Marlborough Historical Society, MA
- Links to specific resources that the Marlborough Historical Society has used in the creation and ongoing operation of their web site. Contributed by Lee Wright, Marlborough Historical Society, MA
