This year’s going to be different! Tackle 2009 head on by putting these five basic resolutions into practice and kiss your non-profit office headaches of 2008 goodbye.
“New Year’s Resolutions” Original Photo by Flickr user Ian Turton, CC Licensed
1) I will back up my computer every two weeks.
Computers crash, even in the new year. Back them up.
2) I [...]
The last few posts have generated some terrific, thoughtful responses from our community. Time to take a break from all that deep thinking, people! The holidays are upon us, and so here are a few of my favourite web toys – possibly useful in the non-profit office. Maybe.
The Rasterbator!
The Rasterbator creates huge, rasterized, pixelated pictures [...]
Estonia – the little nation that geeked the world. We’ve written about Estonia before – here and here – when, for example, they were officially the first country to suffer a full-on cyber attack. Now they’ve achieved another first: Estonians can officially vote using their cell phone. This isn’t entirely breaking [...]
You are a Facebook goddess, the fastest Twitter tweeter on the planet. Can you take your mad social media skillz and turn it into a job? How exactly would you describe that job?
I don’t know, but I came across a job posting the other day that seemed to sum it up for me: [...]
Right now, there are an estimated 300,000 children around the world who have been forced to take up weapons – many as young as 6 years old.
Since 1998, War Child Canada has been working to educate and mobilize Canadians on this issue. War Child is known for to creating innovative and unconventional outreach strategies, [...]
I’m really interested in how people that do not communicate the way I do are embracing and using the web. Using 2.0 tools, they are able to connect with their own community, and with people like me. Want to see what I mean? Check out In My Language on Youtube. When you have a tool [...]
Oh, climate change. Oh, the UN. A giant concept and a giant organisation, both with limited access points for the public, guarenteed to make you feel small, disempowered and unheard. Well, it’s that time of year again: it’s the UN Climate Change Conference, and this year it’s happening in Poland!
As a Warsaw resident, I got [...]
You’d think with the election over, we would shut up about Obama’s internet strategy – but not so much. Because it turns out that an oft-quoted statistic about his campaign isn’t quite right. See, I went around telling everyone that small donors formed the bulk of his campaign contributions. I bragged about [...]
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