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How to Spruce Up Your Online Publications (and Save a Tree in the Process)
Not long ago, foundations routinely produced print documents meant to be held and read.
Now, with more and more organizations shifting to online publishing, the resulting “publications” are beheld and experienced in different ways than their former print counterparts.
Read This and Pass It On: What Makes Some Content Go Viral (Webinar)
Ever wonder why some online content goes viral and other articles, videos and blog posts just sit there? Stop wondering. We have the answers in this replay of a Communications Network webinar.
How Peer Pressure Can Change the World
Used positively, peer pressure has led teens in America to rebel against cigarettes and teens in Africa to protect themselves from AIDS. It has brought worshippers into a closer relationship with God. It has organized a passive and fearful citizenry subjugated by a dictator into the nonviolent army that overthrew him. It has even led millions of people to quit drinking and drugs.
These examples and others are recounted in a new book by Tina Rosenberg, “Join the Club, How Peer Pressure Can Transform the World,” and our guest for a recent Communications Network webinar.
Can Foundations Train Their Grantees to Be Effective Communicators?
The way Eric Brown, communications director for the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, tells it in a recent Communications Network webinar, it wasn’t a sudden “Eureka moment” that sparked his desire to assess the effectiveness of the training programs his foundation had been offering for years to help grantees develop effective communications skills.
Instead, he was just simply itching to know if these programs were doing any good. “It was bugging me because I didn’t know,” says Brown.
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Do Annual Reports Still Matter?
This week the Communications Network held a webinar that had been previously billed as a “no-holds” barred conversation about the value of annual reports to foundation communications. It definitely was a full-throated conversation, with a mix of views — both pro and con — and a variety of examples of different ways various foundations are continuing to produce annual reports. Some the same. Some in modified form. And some not at all.
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