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I vacillated over whether or not to write about the new "Just Awards Buy levaquin generic, ." On the one hand, I have an aversion to negativity and I tend not to like when people throw shade at those who are really trying hard to do the right thing. On the other hand, I do think that the nonprofit and foundation world could benefit from some sharp criticism of questionable activities just like any other area of endeavor, levofloxacin 500. In the end, Levaquin 750 mg price, I decided to do a piece on the Just Awards simply because I thought PPC members should know about it. And, I thought it would be good to stoke some conversation about the idea of highlighting questionable activities with what is essentially our own little Razzie Awards, levaquin tablets 750 mg.

Part of the problem is that the first recipients are very well known to those of us in the New York public policy community. They are well-intentioned, even if some of their choices may be different from the ones we might make, buy levaquin generic. Levaquin 50 mg, Here is what was reported on the site BlueAvocado.org...

Rockefeller Foundation and NY Times Win "Just Awards"

Other industries have their "Worst Dressed" awards, the "Golden Fleece" awards for public waste, levaquin 500 mg sinus infection, and the Ig Nobel Prizes for dubious science-related achievements that "first make people laugh, Levaquin 5, then make them think." Until now, the nonprofit sector has lacked its own such award program. The new Just Awards have announced the "winners" for the first year's awards: one for Abominable Press Coverage of the Nonprofit Sector, levaquin 1000 mg, and the other for Narcissism in Philanthropy.

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For Abominable Press Coverage of the Nonprofit Sector the Just Awards panel of judges chose Stephanie Strom's November, Levaquin 500 mg and alcohol, 2009 article in the New York Times: "Charities Rise, Costing U.S. Billions in Tax Breaks."

The article reported that the I.R.S, levaquin 500 mg cost. Buy levaquin generic, approved 99% of applications for charity status last year, and picked some easy targets to suggest that there are too many nonprofits, and that many or most of them are frivolous. The article asserts that the U.S. government lost $50 billion in taxes due to donations given to nonprofits . What is levaquin 750 mg used for, . . making the false assumptions that a) contributions to the nonprofit sector would remain the same without the tax exemption, levetiracetam 1000 mg, and b) government could ignore the enormous financial impact of demand for services (such as emergency room visits) that would inevitably follow from fewer nonprofit programs. A better headline: "Charities Rise, Levaquin 750 mg sinus infection, Saving U.S. Billions."Furthermore, the article neglected to provide, as a basis for comparison, information on the many billions more in tax breaks provided to the commercial business sector, buy levaquin generic. The article can be found here.

In making the Award, the judges did praise the New York Times for covering the nonprofit sector, levaquin 750 mg iv, and Stephanie Strom as "generally a very good reporter." But judges felt this story was the "worst story of the year" and that its lack of research led to "bad journalism." A better headline, What is levaquin 500 mg prescribed for, said one of the judges, would have been, "Charities Rise, levaquin 500 mg price, Saving U.S. Levaquin 500mg uses, Government Billions."

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For the much-anticipated Narcissism in Philanthropy Award, the Just Awards panel of judges chose the Rockefeller Foundation, citing the "overwhelming and relentless promotion" of its president, levaquin 5 mg, Judith Rodin.

Additional research confirmed this consensus among the expert judges based on their experiences and observations. Levaquin 500 mg uses, A comparison was made of online mentions of three top foundations and their presidents: the Ford Foundation and Luis Ubiñas, the Kellogg Foundation and Sterling Speirn, and of course, levaquin 250 mg, the Rockefeller Foundation and Judith Rodin. Buy levaquin without prescription, Looking only at mentions since 2008 (when Ubiñas, the newest of the three, started his tenure at Ford) we find that, in proportion to their online mentions in general, Rockefeller promotes its president more than 12 times as often as Ford and more than 176 times as often as Kellogg.

Runners-up

As a runner-up to the Abominable Coverage of the Nonprofit Sector Award, the panel chose to cite "all of journalism" for the coverage of ACORN over the past several months. Buy levaquin generic, "It was a giant frame piece," commented one of the judges.

And the judges chose two funders as runners-up for the Narcissism in Philanthropy Award. One is a California community foundation that gives out approximately $4 million in grants each year, and is building an "$8 million plus headquarters." The nominating statement commented, "They are openly touting the building and have architects' plans displayed in their offices for nonprofit grantees to see as they grovel for grants of $5,000 and $10,000."

The other runner-up is a large bank that gives out funding based on American Idol-like popularity contests where nonprofits must urge their supporters to vote for them on the bank's website. Judges noted wryly that this type of giving is a demonstration of "successful corporate philanthropy," which inherently involves large doses of self-promotion.

The Just Awards are sponsored by Blue Avocado and Nonprofit Online News. Nominations were received from the public; a nominator was required to submit his or her name to the sponsors, but could request anonymity in public. Winners were notified of their upcoming selection but did not respond by press time. For a complete description of the awards and a roster of the panel of judges, please see www.justawards.org.

So, PPC-NYC folks, what do you think. Does our community need something like this to keep us honest and humble. Or is this just mean-spirited and unnecessary.

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Buy cheap levaquin, I'm trying to look past Nicholas Kristoff's little slam against the communications skills of the nonprofit world -- which, of course, I feel is not really fair and accurate considering some of the great marketing going on out there -- to focus on the case he presents as a really good example of "rebranding" for a good cause. The New York Times columnist picks up the case of the African wild dog, levaquin 250mg, Buy cheap levofloxacin, which technically isn't a dog but has nonetheless been rebranded as the "Painted Dog" in an effort to draw more attention to its near extinction.

It is an interesting case for the concept of "naming and framing, buy levaquin without prescription, Cost of levaquin 500 mg, " as the folks at PPC member Public Agenda might term it. Kristoff notes in his piece that wild dogs.., levaquin 500 mg uses. Levaquin 500 mg cost,

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Kristoff says that "If clever marketing and strategic thinking can take reviled varmints such as “wild dogs” and resurrect them (quite justly) as exotic “painted dogs” to be preserved, then no cause is hopeless." Well, I suppose that's true. But I wish that he would look around and see the countless other examples of great marketing and issue framing being done by nonprofits and foundations around the world.

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There are a couple of things I really like about a recent item The New York Times' Claire Cain Miller wrote about "Getting the Most Out of Twitter Levaquin 500 mg tablet, ." The first is that she described Twitter in a similar fashion as I have often been lately. Levaquin 500 mg price, She says of Twitter, "At its best, levaquin 500 mg iv, Levofloxacin 500, the social medium is a perpetual, personalized news service about topics of your choosing... filtered and served to you by people who care a lot about what you care a lot about." The second is that she gives good, levaquin 5, Levaquin 5 mg, concrete advice on how to use Twitter as a news service. She talks primarily about how to use it to receive news, levaquin 750 mg uses, Levaquin 500mg uses, but there are important lessons in it for the nonprofit or foundation that seeks to use Twitter as a news distribution channel. The overall themes of the piece are very much in line with my thinking about Twitter being the replacement for wire services, what is levaquin 750 mg used for, Levofloxacin 750, only this wire service is free and people can select to receive just the kind of news they want. Twitter poses special challenges in getting people to subscribe to your news feed, levaquin 250mg, Cost of levaquin 500 mg, but at least it isn't just some fax going to a newsroom that ends up in the trash.

Miller has broken up her advice into topic areas: "A Custom News Feed," "Check Your Lists," "Attend a Conference, Virtually," "What's Around You Right Now," and "Ask Questions." Each section has at least one good piece advice for the information consumer and a key understanding for the information distributor, levaquin 500 mg tablet. Check out the piece, buy levaquin 500 mg. Levaquin 750 mg dosage, By the way, don't you love that little graphic I made of the Twitter birdie eating the Times, levaquin 500 mg uses. Levaquin 150 mg, ha ha. Old media getting eaten by new media, levaquin tablets 750 mg. Levaquin 500 mg cost, That laugh just never gets old, does it, levaquin 250 mg. Levaquin 1000 mg. Levaquin 5 mg.

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The NYTimes review does have enough key points from the book itself to convince me that it is worth buying and reading.

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The piece does a great job of explaining why the English language is particularly vulnerable to these "crash blossoms":

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Communications professionals write lots of headlines for press releases and other tools where we have to compress our language. So the possibility of creating a potentially embarrassing "crash blossom" when we are shortening phrases is something we need to be vigilant against (although I suppose it could be a brilliant strategy for getting attention, erythromycin for urinary tract infection, Apo cephalexin 500mg, if done just perfectly). It's all very funny when it happens to others, cephalexin capsules 250 mg, Uses of cephalexin 500mg, not so funny when 1,000 tweeters re-tweet your embarrassing mistake, cephalexin 500mg alcohol. What does cephalexin 500mg treat. Macrobid for urinary tract infection.

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Cephalexin 500 mg capsule, In a lead story in the business section today, The New York Times takes a somewhat cursory, but notable look at the growing number of nonprofit and foundation funded news gathering organizations whose stories are being picked up by major, respected publications like The Washington Post and the Times itself. You can read the full article here, cephalexin 250 mg per capsule. Cephalexin 500mg uses, The piece, written by RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA, ic cephalexin 500 mg, Cephalexin suspension 250, is generally neutral on the potential positive or negative impacts of this trend for the public. It names some of the most high profile new players -- ProPublica (a member of PPC-NYC), erythromycin for urinary tract infection, Uses of cephalexin 500mg, Global Post, Politico, what does cephalexin 500mg treat, Apo cephalexin 500mg, Kaiser Health News, The Fiscal Times and the Chicago News Cooperative -- and puts the outsourcing of news gathering in a bit of historical perspective, 500mg cephalexin. Cephalexin monohydrate 500 mg, It raises only one example -- the Bush Administration producing its own "news" to try to manipulate Medicare debate -- of the potential negative ramifications the trend. The analysts cited in the piece mostly states the obvious: that the "respected" newspapers and its readers need to be aware of any potential agenda of the news producing source and take that agenda into account, cephalexin 500 mg capsule.

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“We went through a corporate era, and with more media fragmentation, maybe we’re going back to a stage when individual owners are really more in charge,” said Philip S. Balboni, president and chief executive of Global Post. For an established news organization, “there is, of course, a greater danger when you outsource than when it is fully within your control,” he said, and it will become more important than ever “to be very careful about who you use and to monitor the content that you use.”

Read the article. More and more foundations are taking on a "news production" role and I am pretty sure this is a topic we should explore at a PPC lunch session soon.

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The Books of the Times (NYTimes) has a review of a new book from Jaron Lanier titled "You Are Not A Gadget: A Manifesto" Where can i buy cephalexin, that I found insightful, and I think I'm going to pick up the book to read more. In 2006, cephalexin suspension 250, What does cephalexin 500mg treat, Lanier published a controversial essay about “digital Maoism” — about the downside of online collectivism, and the enshrinement by Web 2.0 enthusiasts of the “wisdom of the crowd.” In that piece Lanier argued that design (or ratification) by committee often does not result in the best product, macrobid for urinary tract infection, Cephalexin 500mg uses, and that the new collectivist ethos diminishes the importance and uniqueness of the individual voice, and that the “hive mind” can easily lead to mob rule. According to reviewer Michiko Kakutani:

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The topic that I am most interested in reading into more is his examination of the wisdom of crowds, cephalexin 500mg cap lup. Having spent a lot of time in public engagement circles and trying to develop better forms of online engagement, his questioning of whether or not it is such a hot idea to take the lead from the crowd rather than thoughtful, creative or even deeply unpopular individuals is definitely worth thinking about more:

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Mr. Lanier sensibly notes that the “wisdom of crowds” is a tool that should be used selectively, not glorified for its own sake. Of Wikipedia he writes that “it’s great that we now enjoy a cooperative pop culture concordance” but argues that the site’s ethos ratifies the notion that the individual voice — even the voice of an expert — is eminently dispensable, and “the idea that the collective is closer to the truth.”

I am attracted to this book in part because it is written by a Silicon Valley insider who is deeply questioning some key assumptions about our modern era. It seems to cover a lot of territory that communications professionals should be thinking about. I'll let you know what my own review is later.

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