A recent study conducted by UMass Dartmouth shows that US charitable organizations continue to outpace the business and academic sectors in their use of social media, with an impressive 97% of nonprofits are using some form of social media to connect with their audiences. Learn more or read the complete report at: US Charities’ Adoption… Read more »
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Career guides for nonprofit job seekers
Idealist.org, a project of Action Without Borders, has published a series of guides for nonprofit career seekers and switchers, and is offering them free in PDF format: The Idealist Guides to Nonprofit Careers The publications provide useful advice, strategies, and resources for people considering a career in the nonprofit sector, and include the following titles:… Read more »
Pictograms and parks
Pictograms (also: pictographs), with their ancestral roots in hieroglyphics, can be beautiful in their utilitarian simplicity. For example, here is a sample set used by the National Park Service (click image below for larger view). Simple, purposeful, efficient, and clear. Resource: These pictograms, along with other cartographic symbols and patterns used on National Park Service… Read more »
On shamrocks as symbols
As I write this, there are 13 days, 9 hours, and 8 minutes until St. Patrick’s Day. As you can discern, I’m looking forward to celebrating St. Patrick’s Day —and all its shamrocky goodness— with my wife Lisa, as we always do. Much has already been written about the shamrock as a symbol, as it… Read more »
Information design for advocacy
Fellow Graphic Alliance member John Emerson recently shared a wonderful free resource, a PDF booklet entitled Visualizing Information for Advocacy: An Introduction to Information Design. The manual is intended to introduce advocacy organizations to basic principles and techniques of information design. It provides some excellent examples of designs from groups around the world in a… Read more »
