Election 2008 is remarkable for so many reasons. As agents of social change, there is a great deal the nonprofit sector can learn from Election 2008. Washington Post Go Mobile: Mobile applications have surged in this 2008 and some predict it will make the difference in the election's outcome. Lauren-Glenn Davitian, CCTV Center for Media and Democracy Election For the first time in U.S.

For instance, on 12/22/2008, an article about Obama and Eugene Kang appeared on the Washington Post. I’ve started working with more and more Wordpress-based nonprofit Web sites such as those at asianamericansforobama.com and apaforprogress.org , stepping in after the site has been set up. What follows is a checklist of common errors that I’ve seen that you can use with your site designer if your non-profit is creating a Wordpress site.

Both the New York Times and the Washington Post commented that the resulting show is not that visually impressive, but they are comparing Click! There’s a value of this exhibition that extends beyond the exhibition itself. We’re accustomed to the notion that people are enfranchised in the democratic process. We’re not accustomed to the idea that they

Our friends at Washington Toxics Coalition just launched a fantastic little online video that shows a really creative, effective blend of online and offline activism. WTC has been gathering signed postcards from their network of activists, asking decisionmakers, most especially Christine Gregoire and Dino Rossi, Washington State’s two candidates for Governor, to make protecting kids from toxic chemicals a high priority in the upcoming legislative session. So WTC chose to hand-deliver the postcards to their campaign offices in bulk — a great decision that really helps establish Washington Toxics as a powerful voice for concerned citizens, and helps them build up their organizational identity with their targeted decisionmakers.

move from Washington, DC to Seattle immediately following a two-month fellowship For folks in Washington, DC, you can still Jonathon Coleman's Twitter Avatar Jonathon Colman is the Associate Director of Digital Marketing for The Nature Nature Conservancy, where he works on a team that is charged with the strategic marketing and promotion

Tell me about you I am a University of Washington student currently writing my thesis to complete my MA in Museology. I first met Amy Fox when she de-lurked on the Museum Computer Network listserv. She describes herself as having a "unhealthy obsession with Twitter." quot; Indeed, her first post summarized some observations from her research on how museums were using

An extra year of secondary school: 15 to 25 percent. (George Psacharopoulos and Harry Anthony Patrinos, “Returns to Investment in Education: A Further Update,” Policy Research Working Paper 2881 [Washington, D.C.: Did you know: " • An extra year of primary school boosts girls’ eventual wages by 10 to 20 percent. World Bank, 2002].) • Research in developing countries has shown a consistent relationship between better infant and child health and higher levels of schooling among mothers. (George T.

A group of association executives from a variety of organizations joined Jeff , Amy , and me last Friday, November 14 at the Greater Washington Board of Trade to talk about web usability testing and how it can improve the online member experience. After a short networking reception and introductions, Amy, one of Beaconfire's information architecture and usability consultants, led us through a brief discussion of what usability testing is and why it's used.  Often, when organizations are designing or redesigning their Web sites, the focus can end up being primarily internal. 

4) Did you see the article in the Washington Post about how real-world social networks can be shown to be impacting behavior (such as quitting smoking)? Just a few things to let you know about. 1) NTEN has released a CMS Satisfaction Survey which compares a bunch of CMS vendors. There was a lot of talk on this topic recently on some of the ASAE listserves, particularly as pertaining

There was a fascinating conversation with Dan Beyers of the Washington Post, which is still clearly struggling with how to navigate between its "old media" sense of professional hierarchy and entitlement to "real" news and its buy-in to "new media" vehicles which is what its audience wants and which is taking place with or without the paper. Had a REALLY GREAT time at BlogPotomac , a Social Media Marketing conference for bloggers organized by Livingston Communications (you may have heard of their blog, the Buzz Bin, linked later in this post). Before everything gets superseded by the