Brad Rourke

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  • Where Did I Fail? Tough Questions For Year-End Reflection

    I know it’s just another arbitrary day, but I like to begin the new year looking forward. That usually means I spend the waning days of December reviewing things. My tendency is often to gloss over problems and let myself off the hook more than I should, so I like to carve out some time…

  • Reviewing How I'm Doing With Twitter

    I was just reviewing things as 2009 draws to a close. One thing I was curious about was my Twitter usage. Like many of my friends, 2009 marked a year of significant ramp-up with all forms of social media and especially Twitter, which I first started using in March 2007. So, how do things stack…

  • 11 Things To Help You On Twitter

    I have been working on some simple tools for nonprofits and other organizations to use to get set up with social media. (You’ll see more on that later.) As I do that, I’ve been making lists — checklists, resource lists, and more. Some of those seem like they might be useful to share on their…

  • We Should Share More In Our e-Newsletters

    As many of my readers know, each week I have an email newsletter that I use to update folks about my latest posts. (You can to sign up at this form.) But today it struck me that, while many of us are very active in social media, our newsletters are often not very social at all.…

  • Facebook Analyzes User Diversity Data

    The Facebook data analysis team recently finished taking a hard look at the diversity statistics for the more than 94 million users who live in the United States. (Fun fact: There are more than 350 million users worldwide, making Facebook a larger “country” than the U.S.) Ethnic Makeup Of Facebook Users The data team dove…

  • The Day Jerry Brown Visited

    You’ll never guess what Jerry Brown said when he visited my apartment back in the day.

  • Philanthropy: Too Scared To Fail?

    My latest piece is posted at Public Square Today, my blog at Washington Times Communities: Philanthropy: Too Scared To Fail? The paper of record for the charitable community, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, yesterday reported on a new study by the Cambridge-based Center for Effective Philanthropy. While the report itself focuses primarily on the ways foundations…