With the recent redesign of YouTube Channels, Mashable released a nifty guide with some great tips on customizing your page. Don’t worry, they keep it super easy.

Another nifty thing about social media is that it is very easy to measure your reach and to compare it to other brands. You can measure the number of times your videos have been viewed on YouTube, the number of fans you have on Facebook and the number of followers you have on Twitter. Now [...]

When Atlas selected me as their web media fellow, I was told that a large part of the job would be to help organizations within the Atlas Network improve their online communication efforts. I’ve been doing so in various ways, like writing at the Atlas Toolkit blog and these updates. I’ve also been traveling North [...]

I’m currently at Lincoln Center to attend The Personal Democracy Forum which bills itself as “The world’s largest and best known conference on the intersection of technology and politics.” According to their website:
For the sixth year, more than 1,000 top opinion makers, political practitioners, technologists and journalists will come together to network, exchange ideas, and [...]

I’m going to gamble that if you’re reading this, you want to “advance freedom around the world.” That’s good since that is the mission of the Atlas Foundation. A question that you may ask yourself from time-to-time is “what is the most effective way to use use my limited resources (time, talent, treasure) to advance [...]

Last month, Cindy unveiled the Freedom Network to the world:
This site will serve as Atlas’s new and improved Think Tank Directory of Free Market Think Tanks. Here, you can search and find think tanks around the world by location, age, or research topic. In addition, you can interact with these organizations, by making “friends,” sending [...]

At some point, every organization has to decide what type of content management system (CMS) will power their website. There are many to choose from but blogohblog offers seven answers to the question Why use WordPress? Atlas uses WordPress for all of it’s sites, and I find the  following to be true:
Open Source Software
WordPress is [...]

For current news on the intersection of the political/policy world and new media I’d like to recommend K Street Cafe. Chris Moody, a friend of Atlas, blogs there in addition to some other insightful writers. It is a bit washingtoncentric for our international audence but there is a lot of cutting edge new media work [...]

The Atlas Network is sponsoring my participation in the Motorhome Diaries, an almost real-time documentary about freedom in America. As part of this project I’m traveling around North America to meet with and film various think tank professionals and intellectual entrepreneurs within the AtlasNetwork. We currently have a video online with the Nevada Policy Research [...]

Last weekend at the 2009 Atlas Liberty Forum I was fortunate enough to moderate a couple of panel discussions with some of the best tech minds in the free-market movement.
Here is audio from the Social Networking panel with Chris Moody (Cato Institute) and Pete Eyre (Fr33 Agents / Motorhome Diaries).
Here is audio from the New [...]