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Beth’s Surprise Party: A Case Study in Crowdsourced Action

Amy Sample Ward

Here are some reflections about how we used crowdsourcing techniques for a very fast-moving campaign and lessons learned that may apply to your work. Stacey Monk and I exchanged messages last week, brainstorming the idea of pulling bloggers together to support Beth’s birthday campaign. See the Google Doc for links.).

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# Google Docs is getting more Markdown support

The Verge

Google is adding Markdown support to Google Docs on the web, letting you format your document using text shortcuts rather than keyboard ones. For example, if you type “# Google Docs is getting more Markdown support” it’ll automatically get converted to a level one heading.

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Tips To Get Noticed During End-of-Year Fundraising

Bloomerang

Pro-tip: Save this blog and use these top-performing subject lines for fundraising emails in your next campaign. Start a “Subject lines” Google doc with them and add your highest performing subject lines (psst, I do this too and have 384 subject lines in mine). You’ll stand out much better if you don’t. Even better?

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Observations and Reflections on #TakeBackThePink

Amy Sample Ward

You can read the summary of how the free agent community came together to self-organize and create a public action as well as a full report of the lessons learned and reflections on the #TakeBackThePink campaign in this public google doc. 10 Lessons from Community-Driven Organizing. But how did she know?

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New Book: How To Implement Multichannel Online Campaigns

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Colleagues Allyson Kapin who founded a web agency called Rad Campaign (they designed my blog) and Amy Sample Ward, who the NTEN Membership Director (and I’ve known since 2007 ) have published a new how to book called “ Social Change Any Time Every Where.” Online Campaigner. Develop shared language. Web Producer.

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The Ideal Year-End Fundraising Campaign Timeline

CauseVox

To get started preparing for the most wonderful time of the year for nonprofits and charities, ensure you’ve covered your year-end fundraising basics with this year-end fundraising campaign timeline. Spreadsheets and shared files (such as on Google Docs or Dropbox) are phenomenal ways to keep everyone on the same page.

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Life after Common Ground: Part 3 – Causeview

Judi Sohn

It’s a bit like buying Microsoft Office or Adobe Create Suite, rather than using Apple Mail as your email application and Microsoft Word for your word processor and Google Docs when you want to edit a spreadsheet. In fact, there’s one area of Causeview that I love, and that’s how it enriches campaigns.

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