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Offline-to-Online-to-Offline: Lessons Learned in Building a Custom Community Platform

Care2

Our Story Recently, four allied grassroots campaigns (1Sky, Clean Energy Works, the Energy Action Coalition and Focus the Nation) set out to build an unprecedented online community: multiple organizations engaging their supporters together toward common goals on a shared online platform. We called it “The Climate Network.&#.

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Back to School, Back Online

Amy Sample Ward

New research out today from nfpSynergy shows that organizations who serve youth may want to be going online to reach them. Despite this, less than half (48%) of the 187 charities that were surveyed as part of nfpSynergy’s Virtual Promise (2008) report said that their organization used social networking websites. The Research.

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Top 5 Lessons Learned in 2009: Multi-Channel Engagement

Connection Cafe

I’m connected in different ways to numerous nonprofit organizations. From my interactions with them over the years, I became aware of how these organizations could engage me more effectively so that I feel even more committed to supporting their cause. Top 5 Lessons Learned in 2009: Multi-Channel Engagement. They asked.

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Vote and Comment for ALL these Awesome Nonprofit Panels at SXSW!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In 2008, I was honored to be on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. It was organized by Ed Schipul. But free agents are smashing headfirst into nonprofit fortresses—organizations with high walls and wide moats that work very hard to keep insiders in and outsiders out. My nonprofit has found a free agent, now what?

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Twestival: Are Fundraising Groundswells A Massive Opportunity or Distraction for Nonprofit Organizations?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

How is it being organized? On February 12, 2009, Twitter users will meet up in over 100 plus cities to socialize offline, meet other Twitter users, enjoy some fun, have a few drinks, and raise money for charity: water. Decentralized event organizing, it's grassroots and anyone can organize a local event.

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Best of Beth's Blog 2008: Finding The Top Ten Posts In Less Than Five MInutes!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

An Internet Lesson in Rural Cambodia. Social Fundraising: Leveraging On and Offline Connections. If your organization Tweets, will they donate? Your Organization's Social Networking Strategy Doesn't Have To Be Like Mastercard. How To Share the Social Media Workload in Your Organization. Micro Fundraising and Trust.

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Guest Post by Michaela Hackner: Community Matters Even At SXSW

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In 2008, I had my first opportunity to speak on a panel at SXSW called " Pimp My Nonprofit " with Ed Schipul as the moderator. Both online and offline, communities are not only the way we identify ourselves, but more importantly, they are the most authentic and powerful vehicle for change. It re-energizes and inspires.