Laura Nash
Here’s the latest installment in our series on the “Day in the Life” of nonprofit communicators, where we ask you to describe your day in your own words.
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We’d love to feature YOU in this series! Tell us what you do in a typical day as a nonprofit communications pro.
Here is her typical day:
Before 8:00 am: On Tuesday, I get to sleep in just a little bit late. My alarm rings at 8:00 a.m.
8:00-8:30: Yawn, feed my cat, get dressed, eat breakfast and pack my bag.
8:30-9:00: Bike to work.
9:00-10:00: Clean out my email inbox, go over my to-do list for the day, fill up Buffer with scheduled Twitter posts, and check my website update schedule.
10:00-11:00: Weekly staff meeting. We start every staff meeting with a check-in question. On June 9th we talked about how we incorporate spirituality in our lives. (A more serious question than usual).
Our staff meeting ended early this week, so I helped one of my coworkers decorate her team t-shirt for the Playworks Corporate Kickball Tournament.
11:00-12:00: Prepped four photos for printing. (These are going to hang in a couple of alcoves in our office.)
12:00 – 2:00: Worked on an infographic comparing our grantmaking to communities of color in 2008 versus 2014.
Ate lunch at my desk (leftovers from a catered meeting that happened in our office the day before).
Listened to one of my coworkers practice a storytelling performance for SLANT Live Queer Storytelling.
Checked email and social media sites.
2:00 – 4:00: Watched part of a lynda.com training video on Google Analytics.
Discovered that someone in our office has our website set as the home page on their browser, so is registering as a bounce every time they go online (650 times in the last month).
Reminded everyone in the office how to opt out of Analytics.
Checked email and social media sites a few more times.
After 4:00: Left work at about 4:50 and headed to the waterfront.
Read on the waterfront until 6:15, when I had outrigger paddling practice.
Paddled until 8pm, and then headed home.
Ate dinner with my boyfriend and watched Freaks and Geeks on Netflix. I rarely do work in the evening.
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