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Hi Steve, applied for the ffg accounts only to find a colleague had already registered with ctx and was away on honeymoon. Thing is, once you have paid the admin, the cash value of the flickr ‘donation’ barely makes it worthwhile – even for the 5 account max per charity. Am I missing something?
BTW, did you share any of your presentation materials or curriculum online anyplace?
And, if you have a minute to offer some advice ..
http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2008/07/what-advice-wou.html
Great, great, great – it’s always good to know you’re pointing your resources in the right direction. Conversation is the key, and we’re starting to give our supporters individual voices to hear while at the same time getting to know them. Win-win.
Thanks for sharing! Presentation looks great and also some really good points made in it too, will be interesting to see how they move forward with integrating social media. The ’six things every charity must do to stay relevant in the 21st century’ summary near the end of the slides sums up what organisations need to do perfectly!
Thanks, Alex & Laura. Much appreciated.
Everybody, check out what the Dogs Trust is doing online. One of the best.
Lovely stuff Steve. And it’s not just charities that need to hear this. Special thanks for the E. L. Doctorow quote. I’ve finally started work on my Now-to-New book (the book is itself a N2N project and you can see it unfold on my blog) and these words are very encouraging.
Exellent work, Steve. Thinking ahead, could you provide a section where you define or better yet explore the words ‘charity’ and ‘buzzdirector’
Jack – glad you liked the quote. I was reading “bird by bird” by Anne Lamott. Her insight into “writing and life” really resonated with me.
Ron – as ever, you nudge me in just the right spot. Personally, I’m not keen on the word ‘charity’. It suggests a one-way, overbearing relationship. It has a legal basis, of course. I think there is an argument for re-claiming / redefining some words for the 21st century – like ‘paternalism’ (i.e. I don’t think we can deny some of the power relationships that are in place), and even ‘charity’, to better capture the reality of our ‘connectedness’.
What do *you* think?
As far as ‘buzz director’ goes… I do need to unpick what I mean a little more (a *lot* more). You’ll recall this interview, and this post, and this one. Maybe a section on this blog, or a wiki, pulling the idea together[?] Nudge me again soon.
S
Great presentation, I was asked to deliver something similar recently so it’s nice to advance my thinking on the subject.
http://www.kampagne20.de/?p=62
What about the “things you do do” axis?
wow that is beautiful and highly effective – well done amnesty
brilliant
Our banking system has behaved like it is teenage, with someone there to bail it out. We have confirmed that belief – and that’s my biggest problem here.
Poverty has many causes. One thing that helps people rise out of poverty is a reliable way of storing and exchanging the value built up through effort and knowledge. That’s otherwise known as a reliable banking system.
Interesting comparison (and thanks for that oxfam link): obviously too simplistic as you point out, Steve, but it surely shows something is a bit rotten. It reminds me of how quickly Cancun and the Riviera Maya “recovered” after Wilma with a lot of help to rebuild the tourism industry – especially luxury hotels, yet many of the poorest who lost everything of the little they had – which would be immensely much cheaper too replace – are still waiting.
One complication: any fairer redistribution work needs to be administrated (VERY NECESSARY – and distributing to millions is much harder work than distributing to a few banks!), and the administrators want to be paid, and want to be paid well, and others want their share of the pie to “smooth the way” (SHOULDN´T BE NECESSARY, BUT A REALITY IN MANY PLACES, that would need to be worked on first – costing even more etc. etc. and those Structural adjustment plans had very harsh yet actually superficial theoretical ways of wanting to solve this – and never did)
And unfortunately $1.50 a day is also still poverty even in the poorest nations.
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/applications/blogs/pressoffice/?p=1775
has more examples of how much $700 billion is in a poverty context.
But the bottom-line: Cracks are showing everywhere in our increasingly unsustainable economic and environmental global order.
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A wonderful post. And yes, the good news is so important. Been reading lots of positives today on Blog Action Day, and also heard of wonderful action taking place this evening too.
Love this Steve,
Great blog for today.
The only thing I’ve come across that comes close to the ideal is Positive News (http://www.positivenews.org.uk/cgi-bin/Positive_News/welcome.cgi)
It was very much my intention to have Penny be the voice for all the great work of the 3rd sector, to be a megaphone for the emerging stars from the grass roots, to capture the energy of people as they breakthrough from limiting beliefs to certainty and purpose.
And … that’s the great thing with intentions … they have a power of their own.
We all get affected when we hear bad news. I wonder if more charities reported good news more often we would be more inclined to get involved. I think Comic Relief achieve this very well when they show the results of their big fundraising events.
Oh, this is too funny. I just read the news for today at my local newspaper’s online addition. All there was to read was who got robbed, killed, raped, etc. I just don’t want to read that anymore. Like Steve wrote, where is all the news of what went right, what was wonderful and kind? So on a whim I went to google and searched on “good news that happened today.” And here was your blog post from six days before! There was the smile I was looking for. Thanks!
Don Josecito always asked after ‘El Güero’ (’the white man’), and he said he was so lucky to have met Esteban (Steve) – a good man from far away. He never liked to be photographed but he posed for Esteban on this ocassion. He was like a grandfather to me and that’s how he will remain. I will be drinking a shot of tequila in his honour on 2nd November, but will spare the cigar. Que en Paz descanse.
David Katz’s photographs will certainly make the history books.
I agree – the yellows are particularly luminous this year here in West Sussex. Stunning!
(I too have backmigrated from London near to the countryside I grew up in.)
Loving the photos, some amazing colours in there.
Are you not blogging at NFP2.0 anymore?
Nice tips! Totally agree with the flickr one. Since joining a few recommended groups on flickr from people looking at pics, enjoy seeing others updates and finding new friends, images and inspiration. I treat myself to a 10 minute slot along with a coffee mid-morning for a ‘flickr’ break. Wonderful!
Absolutely Magic Steve. Thanks so much for all the thought you have put into these inspiring mindapples. I will ensure that we get a link to this great post on the Mindapples blog.
xx Tessy
I like your flickr stream very much – have found myself spending too long admiring your pics on more than one occasion.
Love the TED talks too – have kept me sane on some very long journeys.
I don’t think I have a ‘5 a day’ – maybe I should but just seems a bit unrealistic and maybe even a bit boring – although maybe I could get round that by having 5 different things every day?! On an ideal day though they would be 1. Spend some good time with the kids, 2. Same with my wife, 3. Read something pointless (which I do manage every day!), 4. Enjoy the fresh air & views in the countryside, 5. Get far too competitive in a sport – I don’t think I’ve ever managed all of that in one day though, I’m too single minded!
Great list, Steve! Thanks for sharing it.
I, too, am a huge fan of Sigur Rós’ Hoppípolla and use it and other similar songs (many from soundtracks) to fuel otherwise fuel-less afternoons.
I’d say you’re a pretty grounded, sharing kind of person, and your five-a-day confirms it.
I agree regarding music. Listening to it or making it is an absolutely essential part of my day. Playing the piano takes me off to my world.
Thanks Steve. Lovely to hear your five, and you’ve made me realise I daydream too! I wasn’t really conscious of the role it plays in my days, but tuning out into my own little world is most definitely part of mental health for me. (As long as I can manage to come back.)
On the Flickr point, I’ve just been playing with Flickr for Mindapples too, and I’ve started tagging images ‘mindapples’ that make me feel happy and mentally healthy. Only a very early idea, but if you like it, come and play!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/mindapples/
Laura, Tessy, Mike, Howard, Andy… thank you all for reading – and commenting! I enjoyed thinking about this one. Enriching in itself.
Andy, I’ve started tagging some photos from my Flickr photostream “mindapples”, as you suggest.
Ross – No, this is my new blog home (for the time being anyway!)
Interesting to read your mention of a book on innovation and charities – is that part of the innovation exchange work?
… any happy new year!
Happy New Year to you, too Louise!
Nope – a personal project. Early days – proposal stage… but will happen!
Like the 5 a day meme, thanks.
Very inspiring list! I too love flickr and TED, and now I’m going to listen to that music you mentioned…
i love this.
I’m deeply touched and grateful to all the wonderful people I’ve met along the journey. Gracias x
What a lovely blog post.
Thanks, Louise. I enjoyed writing it.
Gicela – x
BBC Digital Planet’s one of my fave podcasts – and you have a Bill Thompson connection! Lucky chap. Nice post.
flickr doesn’t let me post as I was an old member of Yahoo Photos but this set up of yours seems to be the most interesting use,as intro to social media exchange. Well done – picked this up from twitter fleming77
Thanks for contributing this fantastic post, Steve. Lots of great advice – a wonderful way to get people thinking in advance of Thursday’s NFPtweetup and help those that haven’t been to one before get an idea about what to expect.
I must admit, I felt quite nostalgic to see those photos of the first event on Flickr – and quite proud at how far NFPtweetup has come.
I’m hoping NFPtweetup Four will be as challenging, fun, informative, and as unexpectedly good as usual.
See you there
R
As Rachel says, a great round-up of lots of useful advice from around the web and starting point for discussions on Thursday.
Just looking at the photos from the first one I realise how far it has come – I didn’t even have a beard then…
See you Thursday!
Jon
Hi Steve,
great bit of work, thankfully we had a very understanding boss and entry was easy.
I remember the first Tweetup well, I was ill and it really was the last place I wanted to be at the time, but its great to see how its come along and great that we can all share our experiences.
The Dogs Trust girls will see you all tomorrow!
Great post, I followed nfptweetup on twitter so I missed out on the workshops. I’m cusious, were there any revelations from the session to add to this?
I found this link online
http://www.globalgoodnews.com/
My new favourite website (although I’m not religious, it has something about everything).
Thank you, Steve, for sharing these insights.
Visiting Cancun this very week, I am struck by the damage that is still visible. When afterwilma debuted, I like many others felt an affinity to the people afflicted by the hurricane. Like you, I thought there was that the window of opportunity was blown open by the storm and that perhaps we’d hear the story first-hand from municipal, state and federal authorities.
The blog coincided with the rise of social media, showing how Flickr could truly be used in a collective manner. The photos were awesome and told a powerful story of crisis and recovery. But I wonder if the blog format itself worked. Would you have had better participation from authorities if it had been a wiki? (I think the answer is no, but I still want to ask that as a question.)
It’s terribly frustrating being passionate about a place without the opportunity to engage in an engaging dialogue. Tourism officials continue to use the megaphone (whether it’s an actual megaphone or twitter) where what we crave is truly the human voice.
Kudos to you and your family for allowing you to invest such time and heart. I empathize with your mothballing Mexico and consider that a possible option of my own.
Ron
Hi Steve,
Thought I would share here what 140 can’t do on twitter. The months after Wilma were some of the most challenging times of my life. Your work with afterwilma was greatly appreciated. Talking about Wilma now is almost like therapy for those of us that live here, it was a very traumatic and dramatic time. We witnessed the best and the worst of people, but in the end I am left with a strong sense of community, pride in the people of Cancun for pulling the city up so quickly and the strength to know that I personally can survive just about anything.
We did start a group hurricane blog after Wilma, thankfully we have not put it to good use. We’ve only had some brushes with storms over the last four years, and I hope it stays that way for some time tc come.
In speaking of social media, I was joking with my husband that I had better get a Blackberry or something to be able to tweet during a hurricane! No electricity, no computer, thus I really need that new toy.
Thanks for the flashback post.
Steve,
Thank you so much! Why did I know of your connection Cambodia! Fantastic photo and look forward to skyping into the UK this spring for a session at the conference.
Excellent post, as @joannejacobs said it could be an answer to my post today on http://www.clicktoexit.com and the one previous! Very relevant and true. The reality that to consider social as just a part of a campaign is to critically misunderstand the audience expectations, and the opportunity.
Hi Steve
…late to the party on this excellent post, but just wanted to say “hi”, and how much sense the presentation makes.
Stumbled into your blog via the Roland “Three Men on a Bike” guys Twitter followers – all four of them – @3_menonabike including @gicela.
http://www.johnnylaird.net/2010/06/three-men-on-a-bike/
I’ll be bookmarking you! Lots of good stuff here.
J
Fabulous article, Steve. I had no idea you did this. Thanks for sharing.
Glad you liked it, Steve. Thank you.
Many thanks, Johnny. Much appreciated.
What a fabulous picture, Steve! May I use it as my PC desktop picture, please? I realise as a Mac user you may have to think for a moment!!
Thank you, Nick. Of course. Grab the larger version from Flickr!
Really nice photos!
Thanks, Sylwia – though they hardly do justice to the vast awesomeness of it all!
Love it!
The hipstamatic app is genius, I have been using it all summer and it is simply fantastic. Great pics from Cornwall: I’ll be there in a couple of weeks so hopefully the weather will stay good until then…
Great set of pics, Steve.
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