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Groups: A Review of Five Platforms to Build Community

Care2

If your group would make for an active and participatory email listserv, it will probably work as a group too. Can building a Facebook Group impact advocacy? This campaign should give us a much better idea of advocacy impact from the group… It could get unwieldy quickly.

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Social Networks for Social Change: Ivan Boothe Knows What He Is Talking About!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

tags: fundraising advocacy ) I was lucky enough to meet Ivan Boothe at the first (or maybe second) Netsquared Conference back in 2005 and have been following his work for years. So he cautioned me that some of the information might not be entirely up to date that he shared on listserv including a pointer to his awesome slide show with audio.

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Guest Post by Allyson Kapin: Top 8 Social Media Tracking Tools

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Listservs: Participate in listservs that align with your nonprofit’s mission and where your organizations’ issues are being discussed. Listservs provide great opportunities to not only promote your organizations initiatives but to listen to what other people are saying about your issues. YouTube Nonprofit Program: YouTube.

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An Interview with Jo Lee of CitizenSpeak

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

CitizenSpeak is a free email advocacy service for grassroots organizations. Inspired by MoveOn email campaigns, CitizenSpeak provides the same e-advocacy capability at the community level. I posted a message on a CivicSpace listserv about my plans to make CitizenSpeak into an open source module on Drupal.

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More Facebook and Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The resulting discussion thread on the progressive exchange listserv prompted some reflections on how nonprofits can effectively use Facebook. Pierpont, Online Advocacy Manager, National Wildlife Federation, doing some agitating on Facebook to Free Ranger Rick. Nonprofits can use groups).

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Convio Buys GetActive: Is that the end of software legos?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Laura Quinn provides a summary of the concerns expressed on different nptech listservs: As these two software companies are two of the ???big s advocacy and content management functionality into their own platform, and migrate both sets of clients to the new platform. The listserves are hopping with this news. big three???

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From Offline to Online and Back Again: The Bike Equity Network

NTEN

From building a movement to groundtruthing an organization's policies, a listserv can be a powerful tool for a revolution within and beyond an organization. I am a big fan of email listservs. Adonia Lugo. Bicicultures. They can be a great tool to bring together people virtually who will not cross paths in life.