Reasons to Collaborate Using Mapping Software, Plus More: Thursday’s Roundup
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
October 15, 2009 | Read Time: 1 minute
- New mapping technology will benefit aid groups responding to disasters, but it requires that the organizations collaborate more, writes Astrid Zweynert, deputy editor of AlertNet, a Web site that covers humanitarian emergencies. Also, see the Chronicle‘s recent slideshow on how other nonprofit groups are using online mapping to further their causes.
- While media experts caution that nonprofit newspapers must make sure that donors do not threaten editorial independence, for-profit publications face the same risks with their advertisers and other commercial interests, writes Dan Kennedy, a columnist for The Guardian, in London.
- The Keystone Center, a public-policy group in Washington, is seeking advice on how to improve a fund-raising letter on The Chronicle’s Prospecting blog.
