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links for 2009-09-27


Sep
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At Clinton Confab of Heavy-Hitters, Amplification and Distribution Comes from Below

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Putting the imperative issue of civil rights and justice around the world for women and children front and center at this year’s Clinton Global Initiative required intense coordination…
Sep
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CauseWired Roundup: CGI Edition


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The Clinton Global Initiative Loosens Its Digital Tie

Midtown Manhattan is in virtual lock-down, as motorcades shut streets and security agents create instant frozen zones to protect the heads of state here in New York for the United Nations General…
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At CGI: President Obama Hails Partnership, Collaboration and Vision

President Barack Obama brought a strong message to the audience of a thousand heads of state, diplomates, CEOs, major philanthropists, and movie stars at the Clinton Global Initiative this…
Sep
20th
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Redeemed Through Pain

For a bridge and tunnel kid in 1980 New York…check that…for a Catholic bridge and tunnel kid in 1980 New York, Jim Carroll’s Catholic Boy was canonical, a bass-charged liturgy of the word -…
Sep
15th
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Why Seth Godin Is Wrong

Online marketing guru Seth Godin takes aim at nonprofits in a widely-quoted blog post “The problem with non” today, a diatribe of sorts that repeats a meme that’s been active in American…
Sep
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And the Moon Rose Over an Open Field

Here’s David Bowie opening the incredible Concert for New York in October, 2001 with one of my favorite Paul Simon songs. One of the things that struck me about this show (which was the moving…
Sep
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Labor Daze

The last time Americans celebrated this long holiday weekend - first convened in 1882 to publicly applaud “the strength and esprit de corps of the trade and labor organizations” - Barack Obama was…
Sep
3rd
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What's Wrong with You ... You Stupid Child?

I’ve always been a total sucker for Squeezing Out Sparks, the hook-filled 1979 release from Graham Parker and the Rumour. It wasn’t punk and it wasn’t really New Wave (Parker being a hair older…
Sep
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-8-30)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-8-30)
  1. Billy Preston (2) 
  2. Marvin Gaye (1) 
  3. The O’Jays (1) 
  4. Sly & The Family Stone (1) 
  5. Al Green (1) 

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Social Media Fatigue? Sure – But It’s All Good

To anyone who’s worked in direct fundraising, “churn” isn’t exactly a new concept. Indeed, losing members of any list comes with the territory of appealing for money to support causes. Yet when…