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Tell stories through blogs

Wired News: Bloggers Opening Western Eyes is a great story describing how blogs can be used by nonprofit organizations to share the on the ground work that is being done all over the world. This story focuses on interns from The Advocacy Project circuit-riding in Bosnia, Nepal, Lebanon, Israel, Kosovo, Italy, Nigeria and the Czech Republic.

HTML vs. Text emails

Beth Kanter sent me a couple of article talking about the pros/cons of text vs. html emails.
HTML Always Outperforms Text? Don't Stake Your Career on It by Heidi Anderson http://www.clickz.com/article.php/977571
Describes case study of Wall Street Journal testing text/HTML. Key Point: If you're considering an email marketing campaign of your own, don't believe what everyone will tell you: that HTML always outperforms text. Consider your options. And your audience.
CRM and Switching To HTML Format By Janet Roberts http://ezine-tips.com/articles/format/20021227.shtml There are some advantages to switching to HTML format, but it is customer relationship issue that needs to be thought through.
The Dirty Secret of HTML vs. Text E-newsletters... Two sides to the publishing equation By Debbie Weil [May 14, 2003 issue] http://www.wordbiz.com/archive/htmlvstext.shtml