Adventures in Nonprofit Communicating

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Making Media Connections Blog

Post MMC Conference resources from Michael Hoffman from See3

What did you think of the conference? Survey Results from Making Media Connections 2008

Keep Connected: We’re on the “Ning” network and more!

Conference Audio Archives at Chicago Public Radio’s Chicago Amplified

Images Slideshow from Conference

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WiredPRWorks (Barbara Rozgonyi)

Reader Q&A: PR Results: How much time & money does it take?

Project Confident Friendship

PR Blog Rankings: Two Blogs Release Latest Standings

Referring Site PR | Random Blog Traffic Analysis-Stumbleupon Wins

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Tim Jones Yelvington's blog

Heady Heart Project: Eisa Davis

Announcing the Launch of the Heady Heart Project

Thesis Publication

The Greatest Albums of 2007

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Check out photos uploaded from users! Making Media Connections Conference photos now uploaded. Check them all out.

Nonprofit Communicator Blog

Links

Diana from our office forwarded me a link… to 100 other links. I feel I should apologize; it’s the usual trek for nonprofit folks, looking for stuff you can use trying to get there as quick as you can. Sort of like the Mark Twain quote about not having enough time to write a shorter [...]

New Media Summit, Chicago, Sept. 15-16

“There will be movie stars,” Chicago New Media Summit organizer John Patterson told me this afternoon. They’ll rub shoulders with the glamorati of Chicago’s for-profit social media community at the Museum of Contemporary Art — folks from local biggies 37signals and Threadless, for example, are presenting (and so is Jane Hirt, our new Tribune editor) [...]

My evening with Jane Hirt

Props to the Chicago Headline Club for its beer nights at the Billy Goat … a few months ago I went for the first time, walked down the stairs, turned left in front of the sandwich counter to a packed crowd of older men and women who could have been (slightly) better-dressed off-duty cops. “Is [...]

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Newstips v2.0 Blog

Progress on recess

Kids in the ten Chicago-area schools serving the fewest low-income students get recess every day — unlike kids in CPS elementary schools from the lowest-income and most-violent communities, the Sun-Times reports today. But the Sun-Times doesn’t mention legislation passed this spring by the General Assembly that would mandate recess for CPS elementary students — legislation the newspaper editorized against last [...]

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Community Media & You Videocast

Kicked out

From inner-city, low-income neighborhoods to wealthy suburbia, it’s hardly news that more and more homeowners from all walks of life are facing foreclosure pressures.Single parents, the elderly, even family pets are falling victim to this national credit crisis. And now, tenants of foreclosed apartment buildings are feeling the crunch.

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City Voices Podcast

Budget Cuts and Housing Woes

Recorded July 23, 2008 WNUA Broadcast date: Sunday July, 26, 2008 Recent funding cuts for higher education, housing and healthcare while the governor gets a raise? Here in Illinois, that sounds like business as usual. But for an organization providing affordable housing to homeless women and their families, it means risking lives and giving up [...]

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Blog Posts

Developers and nonprofit staff find a middle ground at the last Netsquared meet-up

Thanks to all who attended our last meetup! Just a few things to summarize our discussions. • There are four basic website goals: To Persuade or sell (a product or idea), Educate (developing a long term understanding of something in order for the end-user to form and opinion), Inform (information or data that enables an end-user to act) and Entertain (appeal to an end-user's emotions) - Worksheets were handed out. • Nonprofits should always begin with an online communications plan in order to… Continue

Posted by Demetrio Maguigad on August 15th, 2008 at 11:30am — No Comments (Add)

Movie PSAs

Spout.com had a great blog last week on the film Hellboy II using the standard PSA format as a trailer - and some others from back in the day.

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Posted by Tim Horsburgh on July 17th, 2008 at 10:00am — No Comments (Add)

Why social media?

Beth Kanter is leading a project to create what eventually will be a two-day training design to show nonprofits how to use social media effectively. It's called Be The Media. Being Beth, and this being Web 2.0 and all where it's all about the conversation, etc., she's turned it into an experiment in open-source curriculum development and the first post today is on Why Nonprofits Should Do This. Answer a… Continue

Posted by Gordon Mayer on June 30th, 2008 at 12:05pm — 1 Comment (Add)

Welcome! Do you have a blog?

Hi everyone, and welcome! We're really excited about creating this on-line space for nonprofit communicators--volunteers and staff who are responsible for telling their organizations' stories. Quick shout out to any and all bloggers who are here--if you have a blog, let me know (send me a message here or at gordon@newstips.org) and we'll try to post them all on the Adventures homepage.

Posted by Gordon Mayer on June 19th, 2008 at 1:00pm — 10 Comments (Add)

The Horizons Nonprofit video and documentary Blog

Can be found here: http://hcgrp.wordpress.com/ But I'll write about any other personal or off-topic Nonprofit communications issues here.

Posted by Tim Horsburgh on June 19th, 2008 at 10:41am — No Comments (Add)

Forum

Cheap software & electronics from non-profits? 2 Replies

in the workshop someone mentioned a website where software and electronics can be purchased inexpensively. Can anyone provide me with that link?

Started by David in Open Space. Last reply by Patrick Barry Jul 28.

Editorial board meetings 2 Replies

A friend who works for an immigrant-rights group in Maryland is going to an editorial board meeting, and he asked for some tips about how best to prepare. Here's what I suggested--what if anything ...

Tagged: boards, editorial

Started by Gordon Mayer in Pitching to the Media. Last reply by Gordon Mayer Jul 15.

hi everybody! 2 Replies

Maude here. I'm Community Media Workshop's Marketing Coordinator, just poppin' in to noodle around our awesome ning site, and to let you all know that I am a real person! Not a bot... I'm fascinate...

Started by Maude in About this Site. Last reply by Dan "Skip" Landt Jul 11.

Beta Feedback 3 Replies

Give us your feed back on our Chicagoland Online Ethnic Media Guide Database. Your feedback will help us determine how we can improve this database in its final stage!

Tagged: ethnic, journalists, contacts

Started by Demetrio Maguigad in The Workshop's "Chicago Ethnic Media Guide". Last reply by Demetrio Maguigad Jul 9.

Introduce Yourself! 4 Replies

Our goal is to create a positive space to help nonprofit communicators with their work. What better way to start working with one another then by introducing who you are and what you would like to ...

Started by The Workshop in About this Site. Last reply by Scarlett Swerdlow Jul 8.

Online Ethnic Media Guide Updates

Looking for updates to records in the Online Ethnic Media Database? Want to share new or updated contacts for our records? Post your updates and errors here. We will also keep people posted on the...

Tagged: contacts, updates

Started by Demetrio Maguigad in The Workshop's "Chicago Ethnic Media Guide" Jul 1.

What's the best CRM tool out there?

I feel like there are a ton of CRM, CMS, eCommerce, all-encompassing services out there, and a bunch for nonprofits specifically. Community Media Workshop has been looking and looking for the perf...

Tagged: eCommerce, CMS, CRM

Started by Maude in Web 2.0... Help! Jul 1.

Trouble shooting and Q & A for the Media Guide

All updates regarding errors, bugs, and all other issues related to the media guide will be answered here. You may also post your own questions or concerns here as well.

Tagged: trouble-shooting, updates, Guide, Media

Started by The Workshop in The Workshop's "Getting on the Air, Online & into Print" Media Guide Jun 23.

Updates for the 2009 Media Guide

All updates to the 2008 & 2009 Media Guide will be posted here through comments. Feel free to share your updates as well.

Tagged: updates, Guide, Media

Started by The Workshop in The Workshop's "Getting on the Air, Online & into Print" Media Guide Jun 23.

Enewsletter Consultants?

I have a request from a Chicago-based national association--they want to start an e-newsletter "like CMW's" and I think this is going to mean they want some handholding. I have a few leads already ...

Tagged: Consultants, E-newsletters

Started by Gordon Mayer in Open Space Jun 20.