What do The Most Amazing Online Organizing Guide Ever, The Range blog at High Country News and a tweet from the UN WOMEN agency have in common? Besides residing in former Alaska Senator Ted Stevens’ “series of tubes,” the answer is the Resource Media connection. We provide a wide range…
At 2:29pm on Saturday afternoon, I stood at the podium and looked across the room. All the seats at the tables were filled; people were packed into the corners at the back, and standing in the doorway. Folks actually stayed through to the last possible session slot at the 2013…
We all recognize that media is changing and many of us are continually watching for trends and indicators for how best to work with this shapeshifter. The more things change, however, the more things stay the same. Twitter, Facebook, Vocus, Sysomos, RowFeeder, Google news and other searchable online tools seem…
So, you’re hooked on Pinterest and you want to get in on the action on behalf of your own organization or cause. You’ve created an account and you’re ready to create your first board. You ask yourself, should I start with a board for this project or that project? Or,…
For all that has been written and screened about Abraham Lincoln, most of us know him from a series of pictures by Matthew Brady, one of photography’s early giants. They are all remarkably similar – a face, prematurely lined, a jaw, grimly set and eyes that convey both steely determination…
Have you ever opened up a travel magazine and just flipped through it gorging on all the beautiful pictures of places you now really must see for yourself? Have you ever opened a cooking magazine because the cover picture looked so delicious? In either case, the pictures may have guided…
As a (mostly) native Bay Stater, and a fan of good music and political journalism, I was sad to hear of last week’s shut down of the Boston Phoenix. The Phoenix covered Boston politics, culture and music with its own brand of gritty, independent reporting since 1966. The publishers declared…
According to a 2012 benchmark study, only 14% of recipients open the average nonprofit email, and just over 2% click on a link. That means up to 85% of your members and supporters aren’t even seeing your carefully crafted messages, and 98% of your fundraising and action appeals are going…
This graphic from Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine isn't much to look at. But it made the New York Times in 2010, and continues making rounds in the blogosophere today. Why? Because it puts a (still timely) agricultural policy topic in context with people's plates and pocketbooks. We've written recently…
I was part of a peer learning group Beth Kanter convened when she was writing Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. I was excited and terrified, and, ultimately, didn’t even complete my pilot project. Work intervened. Flash forward 18 months, and I’ve become a measurement evangelist. It’s still scary to set quantifiable…
