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Games for Change 2011: Channeling Our Collective Power

Tech Soup

Playing games has pushed into the primetime market, and with that statement, Chris Swain , CEO and Founder of Talkie, displayed a slide that showed weekly audience numbers for the wildly popular social game, FarmVille, towering above primetime television shows such as Dancing with the Stars , NBC Sunday Night Football and CSI.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

On the morning of July 7th, a page was created for the events taking place in central London and as both television news and personal witnesses revealed more information the page content grew – by the minute. Some include the Red Cross, The Weather Channel, local newspapers, Craigslist, and others. Examples from Haiti.

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7 Practical Tips for Engagement with a Higher Purpose On Social

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In this post, I’m sharing my slides , resources , and practical engagement tips with a higher purpose. Let’s look at some practical examples for engaging and connecting with your Alumni Network on social media channels. Here’s a great example from Teach for America sharing a funny visual about goofy year-book photos.

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Upcoming Conference Roundup (February - March 2012)

Care2

How to Succeed with Digitally-Driven, Multi-Channel Donor Stewardship on March 1st. We're also throwing a party at one of our favorite "Unconferences," New Organizing Institute's 2012 RootsCamp. Engaging Networks Community Conference (North America) Toronto, ON. Will you be attending any of these events? What are we missing?

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[VIDEO] Raising More Money By Asking (And Answering) Better Questions

Bloomerang

And we’ll be sending out the recording as well as the slides later on today. . And I’ll let you bring up your beautiful slides, and the floor is yours, gentlemen, so take it away. . So good news. Also, a little shout out to our colleague Kevin Wilson who’s managing the slides for us at Harvey’s office.

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International Organizations and Social Media: News, Engagement, and Social Data for Policy Change

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For US nonprofits, we turn to the the Pew Internet and America Life for studies and audience research about the hyper-connected. In 2014, it rang in the new year with a new series of its Internet data reports , which aggregate a range of statistics to help make some sense of what’s happening in terms of Internet usage around the globe.

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[VIDEO] Power Of Community In Strategic Planning

Bloomerang

As always, just a couple of quick housekeeping items, I want to let everyone know that we are recording this session and we’ll be sending out the recording and the slides later on today. In America, that is definitely not how most of the police officers that I have spoken with would expect somebody to act at a traffic stop.