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Ted Fickes

Ted Fickes

Activity anchoring

Activity anchoring

And why list building without a clear intentional content strategy kinda like setting your money on fire.
Ted Fickes Oct 3, 2025
Barnraisers, noncooperation and workslop

Barnraisers, noncooperation and workslop

People support people, not emails. Some fundraising lessons from the Art of Gathering.
Ted Fickes Sep 26, 2025
An image from the book Specimens of Fancy Turning by Edward J. Woolsey, 1869. The image resembles something between spirograph drawings and textbook diagrams of orbiting electrons.

7 behaviors of habit building organizations

How to create habits and help your readers, supporters and members become regulars.
Ted Fickes Sep 16, 2025
A stylized elephant shape based on the Eames Elephant.

The existential elephant this year end

Nonprofits and news organizations are going to be facing more and more threats to their ability to operate. Can year-end communications, including fundraising campaigns, do more to inform and organize supporters about risks to the sector.
Ted Fickes Sep 15, 2025
We and us: Together like our future depends on it

We and us: Together like our future depends on it

How we shift our work and communications from individualism to the collective we need now.
Ted Fickes Sep 5, 2025
Extreme risk

Extreme risk

Building communications for community, resilience, and solutions. Not just more individualism. Plus 45 new Future Community Jobs.
Ted Fickes Aug 27, 2025
Could inefficiency save us?

Could inefficiency save us?

On tech narratives, efficiency, power, and turning your team into consistent content creators. And 35 new Future Community Jobs.
Ted Fickes Aug 14, 2025

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