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Project AWARE Dives Deep Into Ocean Data, Turning Scuba Divers into Citizen Scientists

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

An interactive map launched by the non-profit Project AWARE visualizes nearly three years of ongoing reporting by a network of scuba divers who remove marine debris from the world’s ocean. Also launched in 2011, the Dive Against Debris program asks dive shop operators and individual divers to become citizen scientists. million divers.

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Solutions to Turning Offline Donors into Online Supporters

Connection Cafe

While beautiful charity galas and creative offline campaigns still gather support for nonprofits’ causes, they slowly slip away from donors’ focus. According to the 2013 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study , online revenue grew by 21% over 2011 totals, presenting nonprofits even more reasons to pull out the heavy gear and start online fundraising.

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2011 NTC Preview: Can Social Networks Create Social Capital?

NTEN

Staff led on-the-ground efforts in just a handful of key cities, while the majority of actions were organized online and offline by activists and other citizens -– volunteers, by and large. Green for All developed a long-term program of on the ground activities to continue engaging participants -- and attract new ones.

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Great reads from around the web on April 23rd

Amy Sample Ward

The tool is meant to openly share and visualize the operations of World Bank financed activities down to as local a level as possible and compare these with actual need and monitor the effects over time." " 2011: The Year the Check-in Died – "Early last year, "checking in" was the cool new craze.

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New on SSIR: Can Giving Days Strengthen Your Community?

Amy Sample Ward

—– In 2011, Washington, DC, became one of the first major metropolitan regions to host a multimillion-dollar local giving day: Give to the Max Day: Greater Washington. My latest post on the Stanford Social Innovation Review blog is now up. You can read it and join the conversation on the SSIR blog , or read the copy below.

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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: Taproot Foundation

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Our LinkedIn group for Active pro bono consultants is a great place where these people can connect based on a current interest—giving back using their current skills. What is on your To Do List for 2011? And LinkedIn is a perfect space for us as we are targeting professionals with a specific skill set. Finally, you must measure ROI.

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New on SSIR – Be Human: Temporary versus Permanent Networks

Amy Sample Ward

I’ve written about it , submitted a session proposal with colleague Debra Askanase to the 2011 NTC, and recently had the opportunity to start a conversation on the topic of engaging your community across platforms in a GroupVine message (more information about my use of the tool at the bottom of this post). People are networked.

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