I’ve just learned about this interesting new service that provides professional copy-editing for a very low cost. Take a look at Wordy.com to learn more.
This could be an excellent, inexpensive resource for institute’s who are working to translate their documents into English, or those who need a final set of eyes to ensure that the [...]

I’ve got two really useful blog posts to point you to today. The first, shows you some basic tools on how to make low cost online videos, using two products I’ve used in the past, a Flip video camera ( if you’ve been to an Atlas event lately, you’ll have seen me running around with [...]

The State Policy Networks’s latest project, New Media Mania offers live video chats offering insight into everything from Fundraising to online marketing. Watching these live allows you to join in to a conversation with other viewers and have your questions answered in real time. Be sure to check out the below schedule about upcoming episodes.
Sept [...]

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.

I often talk to Atlas’s international partners about fundraising and development, and the predictable refrain is “Yeah, but there is no culture of philanthropy in my country.” While that may be historically true, let’s shed this old way of thinking!
Instead of taking a static perspective on a dynamic situation, maybe it’s time to apply our [...]

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 [...]

Atlas recently launched a more dynamic web2.0 version of its toolkit directory, The Freedom Network.  As Atlas experiments with this format with the hope of providing its constituents the best information and networking opportunities available, the Atlas team continually evaluate the effectiveness of this social networking experiment.  And as always, let us know what you [...]

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 [...]