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Tim Davies wrote this post about the ROI of social media versus the ROI of printed materials, which Beth Kanter pointed to here. It's an interesting poke into the idea of establishing the ROI of social media, and asks what is the return on printed pamphlets or brochures?

So I met Beth Kanter and her delightful family for dinner tonight in Falmouth! We were going to meet at a Cambodian restaurant that I had never been to before, but alas, I have still never been to it, because it was shuttered for the Dead Season (January-February-March, when all Cape Cod restaurateurs go to Florida).

So I'm at some lousy store, spending the $50 gift card that somebody who does NOT know me very well gave me for Christmas. I actually loathe this store, as it gives me awful, vivid flashbacks to my childhood of penury, but hey, $50 is $50, and I have needs.

How do you prevent certain stakeholders from seeing all this newfangled stuff...the videos, the blogging, etc. and not think that they're spending too much money on all...

Let's help the Sharing Foundation win the grand prize of $50,000 in ten days when this contest is over!

What do you think? Do you think that of the two parties in an argument about money, in which one party disputed the wisdom of saving versus spending, and the other party -- the pro-saving party -- was HERSELF accused of being a poor saver, and was thereby provoked and incited to apply the term "jackass" to her chosen life partner...

Do you think your organization needs a blog? Or is it just a "someday" thing -- a back-burner item that you feel just has to wait until you can get more on track with fulfilling your mission, becoming better known and better respected, building your donor base, getting the press to cover you, and driving attendance to your events?

The Boston Globe reported that some small arts groups are responding creatively to the Boston Foundation's recently released report (PDF) on the state of the arts community in the greater Boston area.

Today I amused myself by spending all my holiday gift cards and gift certificates. It almost ended in astonishing tragedy! because I couldn't find one of the best ones: a gift certificate to my favorite yarn shop, Adventures in Knitting!

"One can easily misinterpret the universal by misunderstanding the particular."♦

You probably remember reading it in Intro to Anthropology: Shakespeare in the Bush by...