If you haven’t been keeping track (catch up with the past six weeks of changes in our recent post) ChicagoNewScoop debuted Nov. 20 with news and features that appear online at the site’s home page, in print and online editions of The New York Times on Fridays and Sundays, and on WTTW Channel 11.
With two weeks of publishing under their collective belt, staff are still figuring out all the details: “We’re at the very start,” Greising says, “putting the rudiments of the business and our editorial operations in place.” But a few outlines of what and how to pitch are emerging. Read the rest of this entry »
Chase Bank is running a competition to give away $5 million. Please vote for us!
We love what we do because we know when you all succeed, we do as well. This time around, we need your help to vote for us on the Chase Community Giving contest.
Chase plans to donate up to $5 million to charities for the top votes. Can you imagine? We feel that if we gain your support, we all win.
This would allow us to help subsidize training costs to nonprofits and grassroots groups, provide better resources for nonprofit communicators and so much more…
Show your love and vote for us here!
Thanks! 
The Workshop Team
Check out some pics taken at our CommuniCamp Open Space un-conference from Thursday October 29th at Film Row Cinema at Columbia College. View the photo gallery
Were you there? Do you have photos you want to share with us? Email cmw@newstips.org and we’ll add them to the gallery.
Also, check out the notes taken from the break out sessions on our Adventures in Nonprofit Communications site.
Dawn Hancock of Firebelly was on a panel with Gordon from CMW at last year's Making Media Connections conference
For the past seven years Firebelly Design has offered an annual grant providing free services to worthy groups such as Faith in Place, Arise Chicago, and Young Chicago Authors (what do these groups all have in common? They all look great).
When Dawn spoke about the grant at the Making Media Connections conference last year, she described the back-to-front services that come with the grant: it’s not just about making a brochure look better, but about the firm helping the recipient think through goals, audiences, and strategies and of course develop killer materials.
Read all about the grant at the Web site of the Chicago (West Humboldt Park)-based firm, but do it soon… deadline is Dec. 1.
We are huge fans of Creative Commons and believe that nonprofits create some of the most informative, educational and a lot of times- entertaining content on the web. Online tools have made it easier to share with the world our videos, images, audio and more! In this spirit of open source, sharing and innovation with the social web, our friends over at IssueLab have come up with Research Remix.
According to their website, “Contestants will be asked to remix facts from one or more of the 300+ Creative Commons licensed reports on IssueLab with openly licensed video footage or openly licensed images and music.”
This seems like a perfect opportunity for nonprofits to push their content while learning more about issues and gathering data from other sources. Top prizes include a NetBook, Flip Camera Ultra, PSP games and the pretty sweet Create Commons t-shirts.
Nonprofit communicators, media producers, videographers, bloggers, podcasters and more should enjoy this challenge. Read more about it at http://www.issuelab.org/researchremix.
