Links to Blog Posts You Should Read!
If You Want People to Actually Read What You Write
"Whether you know it or not, when you compose an e-mail, you're designing. When you reply to an e-mail, you're designing. When you assemble a grant proposal, a business plan, an executive summary, you're designing. And good design gives you an edge. How big an edge? It's the difference between getting read or getting ignored." Click here to read the full post.
Three Cups of Tea scandal: why we had the right bottom line on the Central Asia Institute
"People frequently object to the fact that we recommend so few charities, and to our equating of 'not enough evidence to evaluate' with 'not recommended.' But the fact is that if a charity isn’t disclosing substantive information to answer the tough questions about its activities, you have no way of knowing whether it has the same kind of problems that the Central Asia Institute has. Certainly you can’t know from looking at its rating from other agencies." Click here to read the full post.