How to create & distribute media for a cause campaign We’re fans of UK-based Tactical Technology Collective’s message in-a-box, so we’re republishing their Designing your strategy tutorial on how to create your own media, distribute it and monitor its impact to further your campaign or project. Target audience: Nonprofits, cause organizations and campaigns, political […]
Archives for 2010
Zanby: Roll your own community
Zanby: Create your community from JD Lasica on Vimeo. I‘ve been fascinated for some time by Zanby, a plaform for online collaboration for businesses and nonprofits that launched last year. I chatted a few months ago with Leif Utne — technologist, journalist, activist, musician, social entrepreneur and son of the founder of the Utne Reader […]
The Hub SoMa: Open for business
San Francisco has a new co-working space for “radical collaboration”: The Hub SoMa. There is poetry here: The Hub SoMa is located on the revamped first floor of the Chronicle building at Fifth and Mission. While one institution falters, another is born as a collaborative incubation space for new social enterprises. The 8,600-square-foot space, dubbed […]
9 ways nonprofits can excel using social media
Iwas honored to be the keynote speaker for the Bay Area Microsoft/TechSoup Global Connection Day last week. My presentation on Slideshare takes the audience through my Principles for Effective Social Media. The principles cover strategy, learning, capacity, and organizational culture, and each principle is illustrated with some practical and tactical advice that ladders up to […]
How to record & edit a 2-minute audio interview
A step-by-step guide to using Audacity to get a polished audio Target audience: nonprofits, NGOs, educators, citizen journalists, individuals who require media skills Guest post by Adam Hyde and Adam Willets Tactical Technology Collective This is one in a series of training articles that convey new media skills to organizations. It’s simple to record […]












