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Media: How Obama Did It
Highlights and Sticky Notes:"It's the difference between hunting and farming," says Obama moneyman Matthew Barzun, 37, the Louisville Internet-publishing entrepreneur who arranged the event. "You plant a seed, and you get much more."The chum stores,…
Media: The Truth About Transparency
Transparency has its advantages — and challenges. Organizational transparency helps create trust among stakeholders, encourages more informed decision making, and supports greater participation. However, it does not guarantee that the right decisions will be made…
News: Storytelling During The Economic Crisis
There's an interesting article in today's AdAge that talks about why different corporations are maintaining their cause efforts during the economic crisis. <a></a>In a down economy, marketing is one of the first expenses businesses generally…
News: The Power Of Visual Media
Much has been made of the latest video showing turkeys being killed as Sarah Palin addressed the media during the traditional Thanksgiving day tradition of granting a pardon to one of the birds. <div style="text-align:…
News: Civic Associations That Work: The Contributions of Leadership to Organizational Effectiveness
Why are some civic associations more effective at advancing their public agendas, engaging members, and developing leaders? We introduce a multi-dimensional framework for analyzing the comparative effectiveness of member-based civic associations in terms of public…
News: Twitter goes mainstream
Now that the O'Reilly Radar has released their latest report Twitter and the Micro-Messaging Revolution: Communication, Connections, and Immediacy - 140 Characters at a Time (O'Reilly, $249, PDF), Twitter and the "micro-messaging phenomenon" have officially…
Featured: The First 100 Days of Your New Nonprofit Marketing Job
You’ll get our list of 100 tasks that you should try to complete within 100 days of starting your new job. The list will help you succeed personally and help your nonprofit create a marketing…
Featured: Responding to Online Criticism: The Air Force Approach
I hate to break it to you, but the U.S. Air Force has a better social media strategy than your nonprofit does. Capt. David Faggard, Chief of Emerging Technology, says that he wants to foster…
News: How to Shorten URLs and Track Clicks
If you’ve ever received an email with a long link that breaks across several lines, so you’ve had to copy-and-paste the URL into your web browser, the benefits of a URL-shortening service will be immediately…
Featured: Colossus vs. Cloud: An Email System Showdown
If your nonprofit has 40 or more people on staff, it's a likely bet that you use Microsoft Exchange as your email server. There are, of course, many nonprofits that will use the email services…
Media: Twitter? It’s What You Make It
Writing can be solitary work, but not when you write a tech column. Feedback pours in so quickly — by e-mail, on blogs, in online comments — that it’s almost real-time performance art. For the…
Media: Because you aren’t Barack Obama (or are you?)
In September the Obama Campaign raised a jaw-dropping, record-shattering $150 million. (More here.) The take more than doubled the $66 million they raised in August, which was itself a record-breaking month. So now, many a…
Reports: Social Networking, the “Third Place,” and the Evolution of Communication
Our premise is that technology has not only mediated communication in countless ways, but that the very ways we communicate—and even the ways we talk and think about communication—are changing as a result.
Featured: Ten Nonprofit Funding Models
Money is a constant topic of conversation among nonprofit leaders: How much do we need? Where can we find it? Why isn’t there more of it? In tough economic times, these types of questions become…
Reports: Social Media and Social Networking Starting Points
Organizations have a lot to consider once they decide they want to jump into social networks and social media. There are many opportunities to slide off the rails, or worse, to let the effort fall…
Reports: Campaigns in Nine Steps: How to Succeed with “Just Enough” Planning
Beginning a new campaign can be a daunting undertaking, especially in this economy: What do I need to keep in mind? How do I make sure I'm not forgetting anything? How can I set up…
Media: Nonprofit Literature Blog: Nonprofits and Government Partnerships
If your nonprofit is struggling under the current economic circumstances, you probably want to reach out to any avenue that can help your organization achieve its goals. Mike Roque, director of the Denver Office of…
Slides: Using Social Networks for Social Change
Ivan Boothe, creative director of Rootwork.org, was a co-founder of the Genocide Intervention Network and served as its director of communications and Internet strategy coordinator for four years. In this presentation, from the Democracy in…
Media: What Non-Profits Can Learn from the Obama Fundraising Campaign
I was very impressed with the tone the Obama campaign used to convey its message. Right from the beginning, we heard the quote from Martin Luther King “The fierce urgency of now”, which was used…
Media: 10 Strategies for Recession Fundraising
The Chronicle of Philanthropy has a great series up right now with 10 things to do now, to raise money during the downturn. You need a subscription to read the full articles but here’s their…
Media: Walls of Separation
Today as I watched a video of Peter Arnell describe the rationale behind Tropicana's rejected package design, I had a bit of an epiphany. Many companies, brands and organizations are inadvertently building walls between themselves…
Media: What Non-Profits Can Learn from the Obama Fundraising Campaign Part 2
In part 2 of this article, I focus on some of the ways the Obama campaign used the web to accomplish its goals and how small non-profits can emulate this success.
Media: Choices About Time: Re-Thinking Voluntarism
The economic news holds good and bad harbingers for the foundation of nonprofit voluntarism. People have changed availability of time, and must make newly different choices about time. First, the good news. The economic crisis…
Media: 26 Charities and Non-Profits That Tweet
It’s no small wonder then that non-profits abound on Twitter. With the free and easy-to-setup interface, a potential to reach a vast audience, the ability to engage with people in conversation directly, and the possibility…
Media: Four Copywriting Techniques for Engaging Podcasts and Audio Presentations
Even though you’re not producing written content, what you put down on paper before you record will make all the difference.

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