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New Book: How To Implement Multichannel Online Campaigns

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’m doing a session at the Nonprofit Technology Conference with Jana Byington-Smith and Rob Cottingham on methods for visualization and maintain focus, including mindmapping. The book suggests that the most effective method is to have a dedicated digital team that is a spread across different departments.

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Is “Ambient Data” from Social Media Channels Useful for Funders?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Also, check out Lucy’s Digital Civil Society wiki for examples of open data used for the social good. Beth’s Blog, September 2011. Are there methods and tools in the nonprofit and philanthropic sector for using it effectively? A starting point for envisioning a future state in which data is the ‘GPS of philanthropy.’

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Online Community Meetup Recap: Meet the TechSoup Online Community and Social Media Team

Tech Soup

The Online Community MeetUp ended 2011 by shifting the focus to the meetup organizers – the TechSoup Online Community and Social Media Team. Tenby spoke about a method they developed by which to deputize and hand over some control to forums' super users to maintain a productive and harmonious online forum community.

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Crowdsourcing: Measuring the Impact of the Crowd in Funding and Doing

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Social media tools for engaging and capturing the work of crowds include: wikis, custom platforms or web sites that facilitate voting, rating, giving feedback, adding content, or funding. NTEN used a hybrid crowdsourcing approach to solicit panel proposals for its NTC 2011, similar in design and approach to the method SXSW has used.

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September Net2 Think Tank Roundup: Curating Content

Tech Soup

topic, with all of us sharing the tools, methods, and ideas we have. from Beth Kanter's Social Media Strategy wiki. 11NTC for the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference, for example) in our communications to all speakers and attendees and encourage their use of it to help us aggregate community content around the conference.

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