Here's your weekly dose of TA. Enjoy.
Tools and Resources
- Historypin is an online storytelling tool which combines photographs, stories (remembrances), and videos for individuals, organizations, and communities to use and others to learn from. Historypin is free to use and comes with resources guides and FAQs. Existing content can be re-used in new and old collections, adding to the group and collaborative feel of the maps and galleries. Free and paid.
- Looking for yet another free photo site? Check out Reshot. Unlike other free image sites, Reshot lets you download groups of photos—packs—in one fell swoop. All you have to do is Tweet. Free.
- Social Media Examiner delivers again with 3 Easy-to-Use Motion Graphics Tools for Marketers. Explicit instructions are provided. . . yay!
- If your organization uses or is interested in using social media, read Social Media Use in 2018. Writes Pew,
Facebook and YouTube dominate this landscape, as notable majorities of U.S. adults use each of these sites. At the same time, younger Americans (especially those ages 18 to 24) stand out for embracing a variety of platforms and using them frequently. Some 78% of 18- to 24-year-olds use Snapchat, and a sizeable majority of these users (71%) visit the platform multiple times per day. Similarly, 71% of Americans in this age group now use Instagram and close to half (45%) are Twitter users.
- Twitter Officially Introduced Its Bookmarks Feature. This is so exciting, even though bookmarking was always possible with a little effort.
At work
- Tamarack Institute's March edition of Engage! is full of super-useful articles including An Action Plan to Build Community Readiness featuring the new paper Ready, Set Go: Building Readiness for Collaborative and Community Impact, Cultivating the Power of Residents to Build Community: Lessons from Kitchener, and Investing to Create a Network of Community Change Agents - A Case Study.
- Dividing Lines: Why Is Internet Access Still Considered a Luxury in America?, Tuesday, March 27 at Noon, streaming: Berkman Klein Project Coordinator Maria Smith will discuss the "seeming universality" of internet access in the US and her multi-part documentary about the political and economic underpinnings of the disparity. Free.
Learn something
- Asset-Based Community Development: For Healthy Neighbourhoods, April 17-19: This three-day opportunity to learn the fundamentals of Asset-Based Community Development with a focus on Neighbourhood Development and Community Health takes place in Canada and features Cormac Russell and John McKnight, two of the world's top trainers in Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD). Sponsored by Tamarack Institute.
- NDEWS Presents monthly webinar: Gabapentin, Wednesday, March 14, 2:00 pm: Presenters are: Jennifer Havens, Ph.D., Associate Professor, University of Kentucky; and Mance Buttram, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Nova Southeastern University. Registration required. Free.
- Securing the Opportunity of Manufactured Housing Through Resident Ownership, Tuesday, March 20, 1:30-2:30 pm: Properity Now's webinar is described this way:
Manufactured homes are an important source of unsubsidized affordable homeownership: the resident owns their unit and leases the land beneath it from a landowner. However, many manufactured home communities have been recently displaced when park owners sell increasingly valuable land to developers.
In some states, "Opportunity to Purchase" legislation allows manufactured housing residents the right to purchase communities and secure housing, stability, and the chance to build home equity for the residents. While this legislation can be a powerful tool for residents to purchase their communities, the law varies across states in terms of protection and enforcement.
Join our webinar on Tuesday, March 20 from 1:30-2:30pm EDT to learn more about threats to the wealth-building potential of manufactured housing, explore the opportunities and challenges presented by "Opportunity to Purchase" legislation, and hear an example of how residents in Massachusetts benefitted from this legislation to purchase their own community. We’ll also have plenty of time for your questions! - The best of 46 Free Nonprofit Webinars for March 2018 from March 16-31: Introduction to Fundraising Planning (March 21); Small Nonprofit Web Design: Converting Interest into Action (March 21); and What Nonprofit CFOs Need to Know about the New FASB Regulations (March 28).
Good read
- Overlooked: 15 Remarkable Women We Overlooked in Our Obituaries begins
Obituary writing is more about life than death: the last word, a testament to a human contribution.
Who did the Times leave out? Charlotte Brontë and Ida B. Wells among others.
Yet who gets remembered — and how — inherently involves judgment. To look back at the obituary archives can, therefore, be a stark lesson in how society valued various achievements and achievers.
Since 1851, The New York Times has published thousands of obituaries: of heads of state, opera singers, the inventor of Stove Top stuffing and the namer of the Slinky. The vast majority chronicled the lives of men, mostly white ones; even in the last two years, just over one in five of our subjects were female.