Uneasy Rhetoric

When it’s an audio file. Because of its popularity, everyone wants to podcast. The Center for Economic and Policy Research will be conducting a series of seminars in the coming months on “basic economics for policy analysis and self defense.” In the announcement of these seminars in D.C., CEPR says they will also be offering [...]

Marnie, who does deep thinking about how nonprofits can use blogging, social software, and their ilk, cautions about a trap in which it is easy to get caught: I try to make the hook fundraising because I think that’ll pull people into the conversation. But utilizing social tools on the web—wikis and blogs and RSS—participating [...]

I’ve added the Nonprofit Curmudgeon to the blogroll on the strength of a couple of posts. First, the Curmudgeon asks ” Are nonprofit agencies the customers from hell?” The answer is a resounding “yes!” The stringing along nonprofits do of vendors is just sad. My favorite situation: nonprofit N asks vendor V to do a [...]

If you belong to any nonprofit organizations that communicate via email, you’ve probably seen a link you could click to “forward this important message to a friend,” or “tell a friend about how great the Society for the Preservation of Rubber Duckies is.” Kari Chisholm posts about a question and its answer: must the CAN-SPAM [...]