Media and Charitable Advertising
Whites in Shining Armor
Wednesday, August 17th, 2011
While I’m on hiatus this summer, I’m reposting articles that I think will interest my readers.
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Pick up your local newspaper after any disaster and you’re likely to encounter a story about someone from your area saving
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The Live Aid Legacy
Friday, August 5th, 2011
While I’m on hiatus this summer, I’m reposting past articles that readers may have missed.
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If you don’t read any of the rest of the articles in the Media’s Impact on Aid collection, I urge you to
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Development Without Dignity
Monday, June 6th, 2011
This post was written by Duncan McNicholl for the Day Without Dignity counter-campaign. Duncan writes for the blog Water Wellness and initiated the Perspectives of Poverty project.
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A few years ago, Fonase Banda, of Chikandwe Village,…
The shocking speed of social media
Monday, May 2nd, 2011
Last night’s events show just how astonishingly fast social media is these days. And it was a pretty amazing show.
I first saw news of the upcoming speech by President Obama over twitter about 20 minutes before the scheduled start…
More on the CNN Effect
Saturday, April 9th, 2011
So it turns out the one of my readers conducted research into the “CNN Effect” following the 2004 tsunami. His study is titled Media Coverage and Charitable Giving after the 2004 Tsunami (gated) here’s an earlier version…
A Day Without Dignity
Sunday, April 3rd, 2011
Update: A Day Without Dignity 2012 – Local Champions page is now up. Click here to see all of this year’s entries.
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A Day Without Dignity is a counter-campaign to TOMS Shoes A Day Without…
Charitable Advertising, Media, and Public Perception
Sunday, March 20th, 2011
This recent article in the Columbia Journalism Review, Hiding the Real Africa: Why NGOs prefer bad news, highlights a trend with media coverage of aid and development issues. According to their article:
“And now for some good news…
A shout out for Jason’s (1millionshirts) new direction
Monday, January 31st, 2011
For those of you that missed it, in April last year 1millionshirts popped onto the scene in a Mashable post. This led to over 60 posts being written in just a few week from a wide variety…
Great Expectations
Thursday, January 20th, 2011
I’ve been mulling over the Haiti recovery efforts this past week as I’ve interviewed people for two shows on Utah Public Radio. One issue that has come up is the fact that nonprofits have created unrealistic…
The Danger of a Single Story
Friday, December 10th, 2010
This great TED Talk is closely related to my criticisms of nonprofit advertising. In it the speaker, Chimamanda Adichie, discusses what happens when only one type of story is repeated over and over again. (ht Global Poverty Project)
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