Brad Rourke

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  • On My Radar 4/21/09

    * Foundation Giving To Decline * Obama Signs Natl Service Bill * Health Care Reform Heats Up __________ Here is my take on the stories that interest me this morning, and why I think they may be interesting to nonprofits, foundations, and community organizations: Foundations plan to reduce giving in 2009. In a survey of…

  • Nine Tips For Better Meetings

    Especially among nonprofits and community organizations, meetings are a plague. They seem to be called at the drop of a hat, they run over time, and all too often the chief result of one meeting is another meeting. But if you focus on the purpose of the meeting, and follow some simple guidelines, meetings can…

  • On My Radar 4/20/09

    * Kids Addicted To Gaming * Commercial Radio Seeks Donations * Charge: AARP Official Embezzled * URL-shortening Mystery @NYT __________ Here is my take on the stories that interest me this morning: 8.5% of kids are “addicted” to video games. In the first serious study of its kind, researchers adapted a gambling diagnostic survey and…

  • Why Domino's Wins: The Case For Leadership

    On Monday evening, Domino’s officials became aware of a truly disgusting video circulating on YouTube, evidently made by a pair of employees, that showed one of them making sandwiches for delivery and putting pieces of cheese up his nose and spitting on them. The video was causing an uproar, and observers had pieced together clues…

  • How To Promote Your Art In Today's World: Trent Reznor Of Nine Inch Nails Gets It

    Here is a great example of what Andrea Jarrell calls asking better questions. Kevin Rose (Digg founder) had set up an interview with Trent Reznor, founder and frontman of Nine Inch Nails. Like the White House’s electronic town hall,the questions are raised and voted on ahead of time by the Digg community. You could see…

  • On My Radar (4/16/09)

    * CPI Falls * Mall Co. Bust * Obama’s Taxes * Lawmakers Ethics Probes * Octomom ™ __________ These are the stories I am interested in this morning: For the first time since 1955, the Consumer Price Index has fallen for the year. The Labor Department said the CPI fell 0.1 percent for March, after…

  • How To Be Nice Online (In Praise Of Smileys)

    In my very first job, I worked for the field office of a large organization. It was 1990, and we actually had email. This was long, long before email was ubiquitous. It was a curiosity. One day, our boss’s boss’s boss came into town for a series of events. When it was over, he sent…

  • On My Radar 4/15/09

    * Paterson To Push Gay Marriage * Spitzer To Seek Comeback * DHS Warns Of Right Wing Extremists * Tax Day Brings Tea Parties * Fundraising Reports To Watch __________ These are the stories that interest me this morning: New York’s Gov. David Paterson plans to make same-sex marriage legal in the Empire State. According…

  • Ten Tips For Twitter Newbies

    So you’ve signed up for Twitter, followed your best friend and your spouse, and posted two updates. (You are in good company if one of your first updates says: “Trying to figure out Twitter.”) So now what? Here are ten tips to get started. Look around and follow a handful of people. Look at who…