Re-nourish, together with partner organizations including the Society of Graphic Designers of Canada, has launched the Sustainable Design Auditing Project (SDAP), a public process to develop open-source metrics for measuring the environmental, social and economic impacts of the graphic design supply chain. The multi-stakeholder process is intended to provide the design supply chain with a more accurate, transparent way to manage sustainable decision-making across projects, companies, and the entire field. [continue reading]
Marketing advice for introverts
If you’re an introvert by nature, or just don’t enjoy small talk, you likely find much of today’s self-promotion and marketing advice difficult to follow. If so, you might be interested in the refreshingly honest perspective offered by Sacha Chua in her “Shy Connector” slideshow below.
Samaritans 5K
If you will be in the Boston area this coming weekend, please join us for an important event—the Samaritans 5K Run/Walk. On Saturday, Oct 2nd, “Team Flying Saucers” will again be gathering in Boston to participate in the “Run for Someone Else’s Life”, an annual awareness and fundraising event for Samaritans, Inc. (samaritanshope.org), a nonprofit organization that works to alleviate despair, isolation, distress and suicidal feelings 24 hrs a day, to educate the public about suicide prevention, and to reduce the stigma associated with suicide.
We’ll be participating in loving memory of my father, Tom Gough, and celebrating the legacy of compassion he left behind.
Why Flying Saucers? To read the personal story behind our team’s name, visit our team page.
Footnote: If we could clone ourselves for the day, Lisa and I would also participate in this year’s JDRF Boston Walk to Cure Diabetes, being held just down the Charles River a bit at the DCR Hatch Shell.
Please consider participating in one of these great events.
In support of stem cell research
Earlier this week, a federal trial judge (Chief Judge Royce C. Lamberth of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia) put a temporary halt to federally funded research on embryonic stem cells. While I certainly respect everyone’s right to their own opinions on this issue, I personally find this news to be deeply unfortunate and disheartening. [continue reading]
Nonprofits’ social media usage
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 of Social Media Outpaces All Other Sectors for the Third Year in a Row
For a broader view, including national-level statistics about the use of social media, check out Social Web Involvement. The site created by Global Web Index, presents useful data in an easy to use, engaging, and well-formatted manner. This data may be particularly useful to those organizations or individuals who are aiming to use social media to reach an international audience.
