Tools and Resources
- If you require audio transcription, try Deepgram. With the free service brain, users' audio is machine transcribed quickly and with high accuracy. Found on Journalist's Toolbox.
- ProPublica's Nonprofit Explorer:
Use this database to view summaries of 3 million tax returns from tax-exempt organizations and see financial details such as their executive compensation and revenue and expenses. You can browse IRS data released since 2013 and access over 9.6 million tax filing documents going back as far as 2001.
- Create comparison tables for your website with Compare Ninja. Free and paid plans.
At work
- How to Revisit Requesting a Raise From Your Boss offers specific advice. (Career Contessa)
- The Most Productive Meetings Have Fewer Than 8 People briefly describes the problem and offers specific actions you can take to fix it. (HBR)
- Girlboss Radio with Sophia Amoruso on iTunes:
On each episode of the Girlboss Radio, Sophia interviews boundary-pushing women who've made their mark—eschewing polite conversation and extracting solid advice from the lessons they've learned along the way. Expect hilarious co-hosts and vulnerable, honest conversations you won't hear anywhere else. Conversations that humanize the known, champion the unknown, and laugh a little at the absurdity of life.
- Have a job opening or looking for a job? Try using #ReignyDayJobs on Twitter and "get seen by 80K people." Created and managed by April Reign.
- Pregnancy Discrimination Is Rampant Inside America’s Biggest Companies (New York Times) (metered paywall)
Learn something
- Beyond Social Media: Identifying and Mobilizing Supporters with Data, July 25: Free.
- If you watch YouTube, you've undoubtedly seen cards in the vids. Read Biteable's YouTube Cards Guide to learn ways to use them and how to embed them.
- Activating the Collective Power of Latino Engagement and Giving – A Virtuous Circle, July 23: Free webinar.
Good reads
- Obama Library Already Displacing Residents (The Beachwood Reporter)
- Too 'Woke' for the Jury Box? (The Marshall Project)
- Give Everyone Government Bank Accounts (The New Republic)
- The Next Plague Is Coming. Is America Ready? (The Atlantic)
- Sarah Sanders and the failure of "civility" (Vox)