Future:Media:Change

The Personal Democracy Forum has just made it easier to decide what tech firm to hire for your organization’s e-mail marketing, mobile messaging, online fundraising, or CRM, by publishing “Who to Hire: the PdF Political Technology Guide.”

Now that the geeky glitz of SWSW is over it’s time to reflect back on what you took away from the conference other than a stack of business cards and a few hangovers.

• Chomsky: Aid Should Go to Haitian Popular Organizations, Not to Contractors or NGOs
• 100 Best Corporate Citizens 2010
• RNC Memo Leaked: ‘Fear’ Strategy Planned
• New Documentary Shows Real Faces of Climate Change
• 5 Winning Corporate Social Good Campaigns

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.

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.