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Conversation Starter: Digital Natives Moving Offline

Amy Sample Ward

Ivan Boothe posted a link to this story recently on the Progressive Exchange list. New research shows that the majority of children and teenagers are not the Web-savvy digital natives of legend. Read the full story here.). In fact, many of them don’t even know how to google properly.

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Nonprofit Donor Engagement Strategies: Breaking Through the Noise

Neon CRM

Showing impact numbers and, more importantly, stories keep donors informed and engaged. Invite people to send you stories about why they got involved with your nonprofit. When a donor shares a great story, consider asking them to let you use it in a future fundraising appeal. Asking about donor motivations.

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KONY, Networked Nonprofits, and Transparency

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I shared the video on my personal profile and it prompted quite a heated discussion in the comments between my colleagues. The controversy on my Facebook wall boiled down to those who felt the emotional pull of the story and those who had an alternative view. ” Is that that the story?) The victims are Ugandan children.

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How Your Organization’s CEO Can Use Social Media for Thought Leadership

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Most nonprofit leaders have to keep up with their sector, field, or issues anyway – and openly sharing what they are reading – useful content and news with some analysis helps contributes to thought leadership – especially on social channels like Twitter where many reporters use it to source leaders for stories. How To Be A Chameleon.

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Networked Capacity Building: Finish Line Grantees Social Media Training

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My role was to facilitate and model new practices and present on a couple of new approaches, such as content curation. We established a hashtag for the event #fflsmart and modeled how you can capture a complete archive with rowfeeder and since content curation was on the agenda, I modeled using storify to capture a curated record of the event.

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A Social Publishing Strategy by John Gautam, Pratham Books

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: During my trip to India in February, I was introduced to a nonprofit children's book publisher in India, Pratham Books. “It was set up to fill a gap in the market for good quality, reasonably priced children’s books in a variety of Indian languages. India has a reading problem and the problem is two fold.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

There are two types of media we will look at here: direct and indirect content. Direct Content. The first example of direct content is the use of Wikipedia during the 7/7 bombings in London. Another direct content example is that of the number of websites that emerged post-Hurricane Katrina. Indirect Content.

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