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Greetings From Boston (Continued)
Here are links to a collection of posts from the Fall 2011 Communications Network Conference in Boston, Sept. 21-23, 2011. Click here for additional conference posts.
Yankee Ingenuity, but What About New England Frugality?
by Adam Coyne, Mathematica Policy Research
The ingenuity is in full swing with this group. It was upon reflection that I realized we didn’t hear a whole lot about frugality. This kind of surprised me…(full post)
Fall in Love with Your Audience
by Stefan Lanfer, Barr Foundation
After her prepared remarks (including song, stories and unmistakable authenticity) the first question Ambassador Swanee Hunt faced was an awe-filled, “How did you do that?”…(full post)
Google, Facebook and Information Junk Food
by Lucas Bernays Held, The Wallace Foundation
Pariser has a point that “personalization” of online search could amplify our worst tendencies to roll around in the mud puddle of our own prejudices – in the way that the pricing of the large Coke just a hair above the medium seduces us into gluttony… (full post)
Online Engagement, “Der Fisch” and the Nervous Foundation
by Chris Wolz, Forum One Communications
Two observations from Communications Network conference: exciting opportunities to effect social change using online engagement make many foundations nervous, and the old German expression “Der Fisch stinkt vom Kopf her” has new applicability in this online age…(full post)
Passion and Stories and Passionate Stories
by Larry Blumenthal, Open Road Advisors
Two thoughts struck me while listening to America Ferrera tell the Communications Network crowd this morning of her rise from meager circumstances to a life as an actress and philanthropist…(full post)
A Check on My Google Love
by Stefan Lanfer, Barr Foundation
I’d heard before of echo chambers and the general bemoaning of these times in which we are getting our news more and more from people who think just like us, getting what Pariser called the “dopamine hit” of having our preconceived notions reinforced. But surely not do-no-evil Google, right?…(full post)
A Filter by Any Other Name…
by Adam Coyne, Mathematica Policy Research
Filtering is good. But filters have a bad rap that’s going to be tough to overcome. So consider this blog the beginning of a viral rebranding effort for ‘filters’ and ‘filtering… (full post)
How Can Social Sector Information Avoid the Filter Bubble?
by Jeff Stanger, Center for Digital Information
Why don’t social policy researchers and foundations get in on this? They should. Foundations and their grantees have piles of data on a wide array of important social issues… (full post)
What Does the Network Mean to You?
by Adam Coyne, Mathematica Policy Research
This is one of my favorite events of the year. Sure, the speakers are top-notch and the topics are spot-on with what’s happening right now in our field, but I could get the gist on twitter, or the blog, or on the website later and I wouldn’t have had to stomach airport food. What gets me truly excited…(full post)
Greetings from Boston! Mark Your Calendars for Seattle
Here is a collection of links to blog posts and other updates from the Fall 2011 Conference in Boston, Sept. 21-23. To download a compilation of the conference tweets (#comnetwork11), click here.
**SEATTLE ANNOUNCED AS SITE OF FALL 2012 CONFERENCE**
Our next Communications Network annual conference will be held in Seattle, Oct. 10-12. More details soon. To reserve a spot or get on the mailing list for announcements and updates, email info@comnetwork.org
Taming the Social Media Monster
by Nancy Schwartz, President/Publisher Nancy Schwartz & Co./GettingAttention.org
In a post on her blog, Nancy Schwartz summarizes tips shared at a session focused on “taming” the social media monster. (Read full post.)
From Octopus to Patriot: My Conference Transformation
by Sabrina D’Agosta, Senior Communications Officer, The Colorado Trust
Transformed in just hours from octopus to patriot, the Communications Network conference sent me home armed with new ideas and inspiration to better communicate how The Colorado Trust and our grantee partners are working to improve our communities by ensuring access to health for all Coloradans. (Read full post on Colorado Trust website.)
The Algorithm-Industrial-Complex and Me
by Michael Remaley, HAMILL REMALEY breakthrough communications and Public Policy Communicators NYC
If the links you see and the results of your searches are basically the product of your previous explorations, do we have anyone but ourselves to blame for the quality of the information that these companies present us?… (full post)
Post Conference Check Up on the Health of the Network
by Dan Brady, Forum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers
Towards the end of the “Connected Citizens” report from the Knight Foundation, author Diana Scearce provides a list of criteria for evaluating the health of a network. Based on our collective experiences last week, let’s take a quick look at how the Communications Network measures up against the checklist…(full post)
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Have a Problem That Needs Solving? These People Want to Help You
To give you a preview of our Group Therapy,” breakouts at our Fall 2011 Communications Network Conference, we’ve asked leaders of the individual sessions to say a few words about what they have planned and what you’ll get out of attending. Here is Part 1 of our video promos. For Part 2, click here.
Change? Maybe
Guest Post: Mitch Hurst, MH Communications
Earlier this week, my friend Larry Blumenthal of Open Road Advisors, suggested in a post here on the Communications Network website that for foundations to succeed in the brave new world of social media, staff needs let their hair down a bit. I couldn’t agree more that “loosening up” is, indeed, a requirement if foundations want to credibly interact with online communities. However, I’d like to widen the lens a bit on the issue of grantmaking foundations adapting to the increasingly complex communications landscape.
Want to Succeed in Social Media? Loosen up.
Guest Post: Larry Blumenthal, Open Road Advisors
As they move into the less-buttoned-down world of social media, foundation staff face an interesting challenge.
Success with social media tools (and in life) requires that you loosen up a bit, let a little of your personality peek through – even offer a little self-deprecating humor. These are not things we foundation folk are traditionally comfortable indulging in. It’s like asking a bullfighter to wear a tutu.
