McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

News, entertainment, and even charity campaigns tend to promote a stereotypical image of Africa that ignores its nuance and history. Dipo Faloyin is correcting this narrative.

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Super Library Marketing

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Meghan’s road to award-winning library marketer began in the 7th grade when she volunteered to shelve books for her hometown library, the Brielle Public Library on the Jersey Shore. That expanded massively as we launched more regular campaigns and saw success.” I want to run measurable marketing campaigns the whole way through.”

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Super Library Marketing

JANUARY 16, 2023

When Julia Pitts walks into a library or flips open a newly checked-out book, she remembers her grandmother, Velma. In the spring 2022 semester, Steely Library launched a weeklong scavenger hunt-inspired social media campaign. Photo courtesy Cincinnati and Hamilton County Public Library.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 30, 2024

He discussed how AWS supports Movember’s annual charitable campaign, which raises funds and awareness across 19 international markets spanning the UK, Canada, Europe, US, New Zealand, Australia, and beyond. Their innovative platform provides a digital library, made up of book collections in 13 languages spanning 16 countries.

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Super Library Marketing

JUNE 19, 2023

Outside threats, like book challenges, hostile library boards, and antagonistic community members. The constant, never-ending, soul-sucking, scary, demeaning, and demoralizing effects of book challenges are doing more than impacting our freedom to read. And here are the main causes of burnout I’ve noticed.

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Super Library Marketing

MAY 15, 2023

” I did my own experiment, asking ChatGPT to write a LinkedIn post promoting a webinar on the fantasy genre of books. Your donation helps us to purchase new books, e-books, and audiobooks that educate and inspire people of all ages. Creating a community hub – Our library is more than just a place to check out books.

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Super Library Marketing

MARCH 25, 2024

They would offer to help me with homework or chat about whatever books I was reading at the time. The library has a diverse collection of rare books, manuscripts, maps, and secondary literature that can help researchers interpret and understand original source materials. The library staff quickly began to recognize me,” recalls Lili.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2024

There is also logic to handle errors and notify users if the Trust’s Booking Centre is closed. AWS Lambda then processes this list to create personalized communication campaigns in Amazon Pinpoint. The VA covers FAQs, appointment changes, cancellations, referral status checks, and patient record inquiries.

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Librarian.net

AUGUST 9, 2023

A friend writes in: What are you doing about the idiotic book bannings and attacks on Librarians and what can I do to help? Familiarize yourself with the books (go read Gender Queer , some of the others ) so you know what’s being talked about. The usual advice is still good.

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Super Library Marketing

APRIL 29, 2024

You can create a campaign, set it, and forget it. I’ve switched from mainly print fiction books to audiobooks. This is particularly true when it comes to book recommendations. And the things that are interesting about a book—the tone, pace, setting, and characters, cannot be managed by an algorithm.

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Super Library Marketing

JULY 17, 2023

My favorite memory is going to the library with my best friend, Nancy, and being able to pick out whatever books I wanted. And he mentioned to me that he didn’t know what the library offered besides checking out books. I felt so grown up,” recalled Mary. He hadn’t had one in years. It’s important to keep the messages current.”

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Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

DECEMBER 12, 2023

She recently had a book published, Getting Elected is the Easy Part: Work and Winning in the State Legislature In this podcast we learn about her personal experiences and then also dive more deeply into her advice for people aspiring to be elected officials. Karen Kaiser is a currently serving Washington State Senator.

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Super Library Marketing

JANUARY 23, 2023

Photo courtesy Cincinnati and Hamilton County Public Library Your subject lines play a significant role in the success of your library email marketing campaigns. And a good subject line is crucial because you can’t get email recipients to take an action, like registering for a program or downloading a book, unless they open your email.

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Super Library Marketing

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Suzanne suggests breaking your promotional campaign into three steps: market, message, and medium. Sticking with storytime as an example, the what may be “Join us for books, songs, and new friends at Bouncing Babies every Monday at 10 a.m.”. “You A quick example is our Books by Mail program.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 27, 2023

Campaigns all across the US, in conservative areas, to ban books. Toronto Public Library has a display of books increasingly banned in the US. Besides punitive funding cuts in support of book banning, libraries always have to worry about funding. The two biggest issues these days are: 1. And probably elsewhere.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 10, 2024

We are not a disparate collection of books,: Today’s libraries function as vibrant community centers that contribute to the social, cultural, and educational fabric of our neighborhoods, enriching the lives of young and old. Campaigns all across the US, in conservative areas, to ban books. And probably elsewhere.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Books on regional foodways/cookbooks. There are a number of books published that explore regional foodways and systems, and I think it would be cool to come in hand with a great book on regional foodways. Darrin Nordahl's newest book, Eating Appalachia: Rediscovering Regional American Flavors , explores the Appalachian region.

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Media Policy Center

JANUARY 21, 2019

They called it the “ Poor People’s Campaign ,” and with it they hoped to highlight the economic disparities in American society. ” King wouldn’t live to see the Poor People’s Campaign come to fruition. Despite King’s murder, the SCLC, now headed by Ralph Abernathy, went ahead with the campaign.

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Super Library Marketing

MARCH 13, 2023

The Westerville Public Library was the first place I went after getting my driver’s license to return my (ahem, overdue) library books and pick up the newest Steven King novel,” recalled Tamara. “I Tamara says she finds inspiration for her library marketing campaigns nearly everywhere she looks.

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Super Library Marketing

MAY 8, 2023

Library marketing may involve a range of activities, such as creating promotional materials such as flyers, brochures, and newsletters, organizing events and programs, creating social media campaigns, developing partnerships with local organizations, and conducting outreach to underserved or marginalized communities.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

But when a concerted organizing campaign was developed, she was chosen to be the face and spearhead out front. Ferguson ," book review). Davis, authored a book, Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities. Negro Travelers' Green Book, 1956. Negro Motorist Green Book. That's changing.

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Super Library Marketing

MARCH 11, 2024

Being able to walk there and check out books on my own gave me such a sense of independence as a kid,” recalls Leslie. Now FCPL turns its attention to other marketing initiatives including their annual report, an onboarding campaign for new cardholders, and building its presence on Facebook… again.

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CRA Today

APRIL 9, 2024

There’s been books written about it. There’s an initiative called the National Collaborative for Digital Equity that has started a campaign called One Percent for Digital Equity, and the call is to ask CRA officers to commit one percent of their CRA budget to digital equity.

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Super Library Marketing

OCTOBER 24, 2022

So, during your two-month brand awareness and affinity campaign, make it a point to talk and promote your library’s mission, vision, and values. You can also ask staff members to name their favorite book of the year. To create this campaign, you’ll make two lists. Here is a great example.

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Super Library Marketing

JANUARY 29, 2024

Our Friends group had one of their most profitable book sales. We’re also hoping to make time to develop general library marketing campaigns. “We did a week’s worth of card signups, renewals, and replacements in a single day,” recalls Mike. Checkouts and circulation were through the roof. Finding a better balance is big on my list.”

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 11, 2024

I suppose there is a book out there, modelled after The Town that Food Saved , about the arts. Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts has sponsored other big annual festivals and events, including a book festival and winter light festival.

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PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

JULY 7, 2016

Councilman Sandy Spang, who pushed for changing the city’s budgeting process in her unsuccessful mayoral campaign last year, said she has high hopes for the program. “If Sarantou said the process will include seeking input from the public.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 19, 2023

The Friends of the Salt Lake City Library, which covers all of the libraries in the city, is particularly good (" Outdoor library book sale as an opportunity for "social bridging"/triangulation "). While out of date in terms of current programs, the book Neighbor Power describes the first couple decades of the program.

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GovLoop

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

So often during Black History Month, organizations and individuals are clamoring for speakers, books, campaigns and resources to promote during February. I am Black history, so I welcome and help with the concerted effort to spotlight the beauty, struggle and vast stories of the Black experience in all its facets.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 31, 2024

As a book pointed out, if that doesn't communicate that Mayoral control isn't the solution, nothing does. Many school systems have formal councils that bring parents, teachers and school officials together on a committee that isn't powerful, that deals with "school transformation." For decades, in Chicago, the Mayor runs the school system.

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Peak Proposals

DECEMBER 22, 2019

Reference book for proposal development: If you want to buy one book that will take you through the basics of how to prepare a grant proposal, the book Grantsmanship: Program Planning & Proposal Writing, Second Edition updated and expanded by Barbara Floersch, is the one we recommend. Robertson, Stephen W.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Here, IT services provider Advanced – an organisation equipping various parts of the NHS with operationally critical software – was hit by a major ransomware attack, causing widespread outages that affected everything from patient referrals to ambulance dispatch to out-of-hours appointment bookings.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

When I sign off for the day at 4 pm, I’ll either crash on the couch with a video game or a book for a little while or I’ll move onto a physical activity — exercise, housework, one of the endless list of projects that goes with moving into a new house, etc. Of course, my routine is contingent on a few different factors.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

But close encounters during the rest of the week were a selling point in the successful campaign to lure the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, a new federal research agency known as ARPA-H, to Cambridge, said O’Connell, the MassBio CEO. Good books on this are Cities Back from the Edge , The Living Downtown , and Changing Places.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Unlike DC's "constituency service" programs by Councilmembers and the Mayor's Office, these initiatives are designed to support DIY self-help efforts driven independently of elected officials.

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Microsoft Public Sector

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Select MyAnalytics functionality ( focus time booking and insights, quiet time settings and insights, meeting habits , and settings ) will continue to be available as a part of the Viva Insights apps in Teams and web. Malware campaign detected after delivery. Malware campaign detected in SharePoint and OneDrive.

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Microsoft Public Sector

AUGUST 21, 2023

If the user selects to reserve the room for an existing meeting that is happening between now and midnight the next day, they will be able to see whether the room is available or booked at those times and can reserve with one click. Stay alert, stay secure! Thank you for your patience.

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