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How one nonprofit commemorates enduring sibling relationships with AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

The private and supportive SibsForever community is made up of hundreds of surviving siblings, totally separate from any major social media platform. I relied heavily on documented best practices for building a resilient, secure, and scalable application. How one nonprofit uses AWS to amplify citizen advocacy across Africa.

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Rethinking Time Management: Beyond the Clock to True Resource Mastery #2

Grant Writing Made Easy

I’ve started so many first drafts in my career as a teacher of writing and as a professional writer that it’s relatively low effort to open a blank document and start typing. On the other hand, tasks that might take other people quite a bit of willpower are relatively easy for me.

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A Proposed Strategy to Advocate for Improved Civil Protection in the United Kingdom

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

At a lesser scale, sabotage, targeted assassination, cyber attacks and political interference through social media are increasingly capable of causing runaway chains of adverse consequences. With a general election pending there is an opportunity to produce some strong advocacy for the development of a better civil protection system.

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Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

Public Policy Blog

As more of the world becomes connected online, revolutionaries across the globe are being empowered like never before although not all are successful as sustaining the movement the use of information communication technologies (ICT) are critical in developing and executing modern social movements.

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Government Mortgage Interest Rates: A Serious Discussion about the Intertwined Topics of Risk Adjustment and Cross-subsidies

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

14 Only when government gets involved – which is when policy and political concerns are combined with advocacy by ideological and economic interest groups – does one sometimes see something different, with the inevitably resulting cross-subsidies. teaser rates, low/no documentation, 40-year maturities, etc.,