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Be The Media
We love good books, and when we find one that can help people create social change, increase their philanthropic capabilities, and become more personally empowered, we want to share that book with others.
Be The Media is one of those books. It’s an encyclopedic how-to handbook that can equip anyone with insider knowledge about modern media – how to create it and use it to bring your message to the people you’re trying to reach. This is practical information with endless applications for the people and organizations that The Harnisch Foundation supports.
HF President Ruth Ann Harnisch met the creator of Be The Media, David Mathison, through modern media – Twitter. (If you don’t know about Twitter, you really need this book.) We knew this book could help nonprofits. We knew this book could help aspiring journalists. We knew this book could help teachers. So we have underwritten the distribution of thousands of copies of Be The Media to schools, nonprofits, and individuals whose work we want to encourage and support.