I subscribe to too many media-strategy blogs, which rile me up from time to time with their lack of attention to content production—as in the act of writing itself. Sure, they’re strategy but the line “Before running off to create content…” from Beth’s Blog made me think of the vast majority of people I know [...]
My RSS feeds of late have been delivering to me many interesting posts by Chris Anderson as he explores the different kinds of free. I’ve been specifically interested in his visualizations of the Advertising Model of Free: advertisers pay for advertising, which subsidizes programming, which is then given away for free, with the goal being [...]
I was really happy with the feedback I received from my last article“Should I get a nonprofit job?” The responses I got, some of which you can read in the comments, helped me focus the message I was trying to convey: A nonprofit job is not the only way to make a living and make [...]
I have a lot of friends and acquaintances considering a job in the nonprofit sector. I’ve been employed within small (under $2 million budgets), community nonprofit organizations for three years now, beginning straight out of college, but have also talked to many people with many different experiences and histories in the sector and outside of [...]
Last week I attended NTEN’s 2007 Nonprofit Technology Conference and sat in on a wonderful session entitled Nonprofit Communications 2.0: Seven Steps to Transform Your Organization. Led by Lauren-Glenn Davitian of the CCTV Center for Media and Democracy, the session provided a strong framework for nonprofits to better communicate in an increasingly networked society. I [...]
At this summer’s CTCnet Conference the thing I most took away–or rather, repeated to the most number of people–was something said by the keynote speaker, Ami Dar, the creator of Idealist.org. He was asked by someone in the crowd something along the lines of “In what areas do you want to see nonprofits develop into [...]
