Digital technologies are changing how we travel, plan, stay informed, bank, read, entertain ourselves, etc. But
they don’t, in balance, seem to be significantly changing how organizations in and around
the CP sphere are getting things done. I’m with Lucy Bernholz who writes in
her Philanthropy and the Social Economy: Blueprint 2014:
…most of what we see are “add-ons” to old ways of doing work. We try to use e-mail or Twitter solicitations to replace or amplify our direct mail efforts (and find it doesn't yet work very well). Mobile credit card readers supplant online “donate now” buttons, and nonprofits add PayPal or Google Checkout options to their online donation options, but that’s about it.
Low-or-no-cost and proven-effective tips, techniques, and tools
for being more digitally productive are readily available. (That's what this series of posts is ostensibly about.) I want the leaders of our organizations* to be aware of them, and
to master them. I want them to succeed.
In the mean time, however, we parents
and family members can’t afford to sit around and wait. There’s much work to
be done. And though it may be daunting, there’s this good news, too:
Doing work these
days “no longer requires,” in the words of Nilofer Merchant, “a badge and
permit." The tips, techniques, and tools
that are there for our organizations’ taking are also available
to us individuals. Opportunities and the means to make a difference are every bit as much ours as they are theirs.
What good can
one person do? I’ll offer my two cents on the matter in the next set of posts.
*numbering in the hundreds? hundreds of hundreds?
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