The Future of Emailing Congress

Have you emailed your congressional representative? Did you feel like it did any good?
Congressional offices are receiving hundreds of millions of emails every year, and the workload on staffers is enormous! As the number of emails has increased over the years, the staff size and technology budgets have not.
The Center for American Progress will be [...]

Race and Politics- Live Blog from CAP

Due to the unprecedented nature of the 2008 election, communities of color are being actively sought after and their role and influence scrutinized by the media and political pundits. In an effort to add depth to the national conversation about the important role these communities are playing and will continue to play in ‘08 and [...]

Getting Excited About Maps

There’s been a lot of buzz about using maps in advocacy, and its been something I’ve been meaning to explore further. I knew about the use of maps to see that damage done in Darfur (you can track as village go missing, and as communities are destroyed in Zimbabwe). And as neat as these were, [...]

Online Video Distribution for researchers

While searching for a different Ted Talk, I came across this one. It is a fascinating example of how technology can be adapted for different purposes. But I love that in the end the speaker, Johnny Lee, credits online video distribution for the spread of his product. It only took 5 months to go from [...]

Public access and grassroots video

I’m attending a lecture today given by DeeDee Halleck, an expert in public access television programing and the use of communications in grassroots development.
You can follow along here.

Health Care Journalism Conference

Thanks to my mentor, Jackie Judd, I’m attending the Association of Health Care Journalists annual conference.
I’ll be live blogging again - to follow along, click here.

Breaking up with advertisers

I came across this while doing some research for work.
What a fun way to show how media and our relationship with it is changing! This is specifically about advertising, but nonprofits should pay attention, too, since their outreach methods need to change as well.

Are you misrepresented?

I love this video for several reasons-

It highlights the incongruity between media presentation and reality
It gives example of the “power of the masses”
It mentions online volunteering!

All of that, and its well made!
 

FaceBook to protest guerillas!

What do Hillary Clinton, Barak Obama and Oscar Morales of northern Colombia have in common?
They all use FaceBook (with varying success) to call people to action. But Morales has had far greater success than either of the Democratic candidates.

Earlier this year, Morales created the FaceBook group, One Million Voices Against the FARC and used [...]

IMI Conference LIve Blogging, Day 2

Live blogging continues here!