At conferences and online, we hear from lots of people who are both surprised and excited that we share our tips and tricks online. We do it for a couple of reasons:

1. We work in public media. We believe that we should be sharing everything we can with the public. We’re in this together!

2. Making our process transparent and accessible helps fulfill NPR’s mission to educate and inform.

3. Sharing is infectious! We’ve found that other people open up with their own wisdom and experiences when we are generous with our own knowledge. The result is that the Social Sandbox now features outside contributors as much as it does our own insights.

4. It’s also a place where we can highlight our successes, failures and curiosities, with the hope that others might take our work and build on it.

Do you read the Sandbox? Have any suggestions for us? Let us know!

@melodykramer and @wrightbryan3