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Finding Frames for Global Poverty

by on March 28, 2011 in Communication, Marketing, Political Mind

I am excited to announce the release of a new report written by Andrew Darnton and Martin Kirk for Oxfam UK called Finding Frames: New Ways to Engage the UK Public in Global Poverty. Check it out: I helped inform their thinking about frames and provided a survey of key conceptual models shaping the development [...]

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Strategy Workgroup: Branding the Progressive Vision

by on February 15, 2011 in Communication, Marketing, Progressive Infrastructure

We just launched the Progressive Strategy Handbook, an open source platform for building capacity for the movement, where we promised to provide an online forum for ongoing discussions that lead to strategic initiatives. The first discussion topic we’d like to discuss is the branding of  what it means to be progressive.  This is a topic [...]

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Collaborative Consumption – Breaking the Consumer Frame

by on January 14, 2011 in Economy, Environment, Marketing, Social Movements

We are in the midst of a major paradigm shift in economic transactions.  No longer must consumption be treated as an individual act.  Emerging social technologies are enabling the foundational human capacity for sharing to break down the consumer transaction frame and replace it with a community-based capitalism that Rachel Botsman calls “collaborative consumption”. Watch [...]

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