Future:Media:Change

The 99th, 100th, or 101st International Women’s Day (depending on your math), was quiet on the web and avoided Twitter trending. However, Yahoo! jumped in where Google faltered with their own special logo and page celebrating women.

Should your non-profit be on Linked-in, Flickr, and Facebook at the same time? With so many social networks it’s often difficult to determine which combination makes sense for your organization. In cases like these, a little cheating is completely fine. This Social Media Cheat Sheet goes over the pros and cons of using some of the major social networks.

The Green Market has assembled a great list of some of the funniest and innovative videos produced for the environment movement.



One of my favorites is a Steven Colbert piece where he makes fun of climate change deniers who claim that Washington’s recent snowfalls repudiate global warming.

MobileActive.org have released a great new How to Guide to mobile security for citizen journalists who risk their own security to report on events in oppressive regimes.

The ubiquitous calls to help Haiti by texting “Haiti” to 90999 last month, and the $41 million raised by the effort, may have opened your organization’s eyes to the possibilities of mobile messaging, but what are reasonable expectations for more run-of-the-mill mobile campaigns? To answer this question, M+R and MobileActive.org have released 2010 Nonprofit Text Messaging Benchmarks. Here are the highlights of that report.

Smashing Magazine is one of my favorite blogs for design news and opinions. It’s where you go if you are a font geek or want to see what’s happening in the online design world. They recently posted a really cool article reviewing some non-profit web sites from a design and usability point of view. Even a few sites like the Red Nose Day Campaign or the WWF, which have some of the best designs around got taken to task for a few design errors.

5 Billion pieces of content were shared on Facebook per week during February, according to data released by the company. This is up big from 2 billion per week only five months ago in September 2009. Sharing tool, AddtoAny reports twice as much content shared on Facebook than E-mail by their users.

The Pew Research Center have released the fourth version of their ” The Future of the Internet” series, which is pulled together from surveys and questions to leading digital thinkers and figures around the world.