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Foundations Fail at Failing
This post was developed and researched for The Foundation Center’s Glasspockets initiative and appeared originally on its “Transparency Talk” blog.
“If you hit the bull’s eye every time, you’ve set the target [...]
Next PPC Lunch: Evaluating New Media Effectiveness
We received lots of feedback from the Public Policy Communicators NYC group on what topics to cover next. And, while one topic came out on top, I was immensely happy [...]
Are Annual Reports Dying a Slow Death?
Having read the report “Talking to Ourselves? A Critical Look at Annual Reports in Foundation Communications,” and helped create its companion discussion site WhyAnnualReports.org, I didn’t really think I would [...]
What we learned: Effective Communications Planning
The November 2010 meeting of Public Policy Communicators NYC was all about how to develop effective communications plans. We set out to examine:
- How to produce realistic, focused communications goals [...]
What Are Annual Reports Worth?
Are you a communications pro at a foundation that produces annual reports? Are you someone who receives annual reports and thinks they are either a huge waste of philanthropic resources [...]
Next PPC Lunch: Effective Annual Communications Plans
During the March PPC-NYC meeting, at which we explored how to evaluate the outcomes of communications efforts, one of the major revelations was that many of us are not doing [...]
How Many Communications Trends are on Your List?
This is another in the series of joint posts with The Communications Network. It originally appeared on that site.
The communications world has changed tremendously over the past five years. There’s [...]
What We Learned: Communications Integration
The September 2010 meeting of Public Policy Communicators NYC focused on “Communications Integration.” We examined what are some of the best methods and technologies to coordinate communications efforts so that [...]
When Photos Do What Words Alone Can’t
This is another in the series of joint posts with The Communications Network. It originally appeared on the Communications Network site.
Several prominent foundations, to their great credit, are [...]
Next PPC-NYC Lunch: September 16
The next PPC gathering is going to be a great hands-on session that will help communications professionals bring more efficiency and effectiveness to their marketing/communications efforts.
- Is your contacts database [...]