Many of my colleagues in b5media’s Business Channel, as well as the bloggers who staff the Entertainment Channel, are celebrating the summer solstice with the Great Blog Off. They have pledged to post new copy every hour — either their own stuff or contributions from guests — to commemorate the fact that this is the […]
Today is the summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, the day when the sun’s rays reach us most directly, giving us the year’s longest period of daylight.
That means it’s also a great day to remember that too much daylight — well, too much sunlight — can be harmful without the proper protection. As the Skin […]
While its headquarters are in Philadelphia, the Pew Charitable Trusts has a substantial operation in Washington, D.C., a natural second home for an organization whose research has such a public-policy focus. The Pew recently announced that it would consolidate its two offices in the District into a single, 10-story building it has acquired on E […]
A few random thoughts on the Associated Press’s stated intention to lean on bloggers it feels lift too much of its stuff in their posts:
Good luck enforcing that.
Will AP then stop cribbing bloggers’ material?
A great deal of AP copy is nothing more than rewritten newspaper stories, so it’s got some chutzpah calling out bloggers.
AP certainly […]
Those rubber wristbands hawking a cause are so ubiquitous that it’s hard to believe they’ve been around for less than half a decade. But it was only in 2004 that the Lance Armstrong Foundation began selling yellow Livestrong bracelets, and since then tens of millions of them have been purchased. That compelled a huge variety […]
How many nonprofits do you know that like to incorporate the Guinness Book of World Records as part of their marketing efforts?
The Mozilla Foundation’s software-development subsidiary, the company behind the terrific Firefox Web browser and Thunderbird e-mail client, is releasing version 3.0 of Firefox today, and is making a push to set a record for […]
Writing in the Tallahassee Democrat, nonprofit executive and columnist Kelly Otte discussed the “considerable ethnic and racial homogeneity on boards” that was mentioned in a recent Urban Institute report, “Boards of Midsize Nonprofits: Their Needs and Challenges”:
On average, 83 percent of directors are white, 9 percent are black and 4 percent are Hispanic, with the […]
Last week Google for Non-Profits opened up its online group to full-fledged discussion, with 4,500 people signing up to participate in its ongoing conversations. I’m not a member of the group (yet), but it sounds as if something went a bit awry. Two days after declaring it open for business, Google moderator Galen Panger posted […]
At the Web 2.0 seminar I attended last month, there was a lot of talk about what Google’s products can do for nonprofits. The answer: quite a bit.
Google awards grants to nonprofits, and simply by applying, your organization receives funding that can be applied to Google advertising.
Google Alerts are a great way to stay on […]
What the Chinese earthquake can teach nonprofits about strategy. | Forbes
A rundown of the ol’ Are there too many nonprofits? issue. | Joanne’s Nonprofit Charitable Orgs Blog
Why are people giving less to help the victims of the disasters in China and Myanmar? | The NonProfit Times
Good advice for nonprofits about volunteers. | Fort Worth Star-Telegram
It’s […]
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