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Introducing Web 2.0

Most of you know that Web 2.0 refers to the advent of user-generated content on the internet — podcasts, personal webpages (and more) on sites like MySpace, blogs with all levels of sophistication, and online videos ranging from the sublime to the ridiculous on sites like YouTube. MySpace (for web-based personal profiles and networking) and […]

Learn More August 1, 2006

Get Ready For a (Good) Cry

August approaches, and many of us will take time to re-charge our batteries in the weeks ahead. Here is the most inspiring story I've read in ages. Read it and you will be energized and motivated to do better, try harder and take on bigger challenges. You'll feel more optimistic. You will not be able […]

Learn More July 28, 2006

Bus Leaving for Washington, NOW!

Attention planned giving fundraisers! Washington's abuzz. But it's only fair that you non-Washingtonians should get a bite at the apple. The biggest transfer of wealth in the history of the Washington region will occur over the next 50 years as current retirees and Boomers expected to die by 2055 make bequests totalling $2.4 trillion. So […]

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Jon Stewart vs. Arthur Sulzberger, Jr.

On the HuffingtonPost blog today, Washington insider Marty Kaplan laments the fact that the Network of Spiritual Progressives must buy its way into the NYTimes with an ad costing $154,000 or more. He writes: “What's odd is the monopoly on elite attention that the prestige press seems still to maintain. You'd think that new technology […]

Learn More July 27, 2006

Cabbies and Carbon Sequestration

When's the last time you had a great conversation with your cabbie about “carbon sequestration.” NOT! And that's the problem with today's knowledgeable, authoritative, but politically weak environmental groups. In a must read article in this week's Nation magazine, Mark Hertsgaard, the Nation's environmental correspondent, contrasts the staleness and homogeneity of the national groups with […]

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If the Wall Street Journal Can Contemplate It …

Prompted by a report that the Wall Street Journal is reviewing its distribution options, Scott Donaton muses in Ad Age about the prospect of a major newspaper bowing to the inevitable, abandoning print altogether and going 100% online. Think it will happen? We do. Moreover, it's a potential transition that every non-profit should consider as […]

Learn More July 26, 2006