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New on SSIR: #4Change Examines Social Media for the Climate Change Movement

Amy Sample Ward

People don’t see ‘big picture’ but relate locally&# (@ kristianakocis ). Linking in global messages or large-scale campaigns to “to offline events and opportunities across organizations/campaigns&# (@ amysampleward ) can bring local communities into the mix and create more ownership for outcomes.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

Working together, citizens could piece together news stories as well as facts from witnesses as they emerged to create the most complete picture of events. The first example is Ushahidi – originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. Indirect Content.

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Technology & Community: Strategic Options for Building Movements

Amy Sample Ward

The organizations get to do everything BUT drive: you are the vehicle, the gas, the map, the snacks even! Obviously, we can all picture a car. So they provide the examples and maps, but they let the youth pick and pledge whatever it is they want to do to make a difference. What does it look like?

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Data Health and Integration for Foundations Part 2: Business Imperatives

sgEngage

Many contemporary integration solutions leverage application programming interfaces (‘APIs’) that further automate data-mapping and the exchange of data between naturally corresponding locations within the source and destination systems. Integration applications can do a lot of the ‘heavy lifting.’ Cloud-based integration technology.

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The Evolution of NPTech: Keynote and slides

Amy Sample Ward

The magical kingdom in which offline and online worked together, where strategies that were proven in one place were re-imagined in new ones. In the social paradigm, we recognize the need for both online and offline to be part of our work. For those that can’t tell, this is a picture of a clock on the face of a coffee maker.

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[VIDEO] Using WhatsApp to Increase Engagement with Multicultural Communities

Bloomerang

And so I have more than five years of experience creating online and offline communities to support social and environmental causes as Steven said and I worked a lot in Latin America. So do you see in this map, WhatsApp is a top social messaging app in the world. Here are some pictures.” So this is massive. So this is.

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[VIDEO] Power Of Community In Strategic Planning

Bloomerang

Resource mapping, who’s already here? If you feel like you haven’t been able to hear from enough stakeholders, be honest and transparent with that and say, you know, we need you to spend a little bit more time on data collection to make sure we’re getting a full picture here. . This is such a fun topic.