You’re ready to get your non-profit online and make a difference. Grand. Except…there’s just a few basic things you’re not quite sure how to do. Like edit a wiki, back up your computer’s memory or um, code.
Off with you to Wired’s How-To Wiki, which happens to be the most empowering place I’ve discovered for acquiring [...]
You’re sitting in your cubicle, trying to get a grant proposal finished. Through the thin plastic wall, Ted’s yammering away on the phone. The phone message light is flashing red, like an emergency beacon signalling your imminent overload. And then Shannon sticks her head around the corner, and asks if you have a sec…just one [...]
So, do you understand the electoral system yet? Thoroughly digested those platforms and polls? With both a Canadian and an American election on the go this autumn, there’s a lot of indigestible info out there. We’re going to show you some sites that will hopefully help you stay on top of it.
One of the things [...]
This morning saw a sharp rise in the markets – known as a “dead cat bounce” by financial analysts. After a spectacular crash, the stock markets often rebound sharply – but this isn’t a real indication of improvement. Apparently, even a dead cat will bounce if it falls from a great height.
Wondering how [...]
Some updates on stories we’ve been following at Social Ch@nge:
Google’s Evil Meter:
You’ll remember that Amnesty International refuses to use Google’s free project management programs on the grounds that Google’s human rights record is poor (if you’re picturing intellectuals chained to their desks, better check out our earlier post ‘Say It Ain’t So, Google’) For a [...]
We are all guilty. You too.
We have all used Excel as a database, even though it’s really not a database program. Real database programs take training – Excel, however, can make you that call list in the blink of an eye. So you use it. There’s more: many of us have used Photoshop for [...]
I was going to write about all the excellent non-profit blogs out there that there are to be read, but Beth’s Blog already made a fantastic entry to get you started on this (granted it focuses exclusively on Gen X/Y/Millennial blogs – but we’re Gen X/Y and it’s just to get you started).
A confession is [...]
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