[COMM-ORG] PTP's new Crib Notes Blog

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From: "Progressive Technology Project" 
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Are you worried you'll miss the latest communications tool, poll or 
online organizing strategy? PTP's coming to the rescue!

Today, we're launching the new Communication Resources and Information 
Bytes CRIB Notes blog to track emerging communications tools and online 
strategies useful to community organizers.


We Read it, So You Don't Have To

To save you time, we're reading piles of articles, polls, reports, etc. 
and summarizing the two or three key "take away" points.

We're posting to the blog 2-3 times a week. You can read it online or 
you can subscribe to the RSS feed. If you'd like a digest of the 3-4 
most useful posts sign up for the monthly mailing here.

Here's a sample of what you'll find on the CRIB Blog:

What Next for Obama’s Social Network?

President-elect Obama is entering the White House with possibly the most 
sophisticated political operation in history–certainly the most 
technologically sophisticated. During the campaign the centerpiece of 
the Obama “movement” was My.BarackObama.com–which spurred 3 million 
supporters on Facebook, 900,046 MySpace friends, 128,321 Twitter 
followers and a database of 10 million email addresses. Read more

Writing Tips

Even in the era of cable TV and YouTube, writing still matters. Here are 
20 quick tips from a writing coach that are also available in a longer 
podcast form. Folks might also might want to check out blogs like like 
Grammar Girl, CopyBlogger or Daily Writing Tips. Read more

How Do Our Members Communicate?

Many of us have a diminishing sense of how our members and communities 
are communicating with each other. Many of the assumptions we’ve made 
over the last decades may now be wrong, especially among highly mobile 
low income constituents. Read more

As always, don't hesitate to get in touch with any questions or concerns 
you have.




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