Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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Online Activism: The Movie - Ten Tactics for Info Activism

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Activists around the world are using social media tools to make change. A new 50- minute documentary film called " 10 Tactics for Turning Information into Action " is a guide to how best to use take advantage of the power of these tools and avoid hidden dangers.

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Twitter for Activism Tool VS Strategy Debate and A New Twitter Activism Guide

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Those who are just beginning to incorporate social media into their strategic thinking struggle with: "How do we get to know and understand how a particular tool can help us meet our goals, but not let the tool drive our decisions?" Fire, for instance, was a society-changing tool. The alternative? A forest fire.

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E-Mediat Day 3: Digital Activism

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Mary Joyce leads a session on digital activism using the Story of Electronics. Day 3 of the Train the Trainers session was devoted to Digital Activism and facilitated by Mary Joyce. The learning objectives: To provide participants with a formula for training digital campaign strategy.

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Tips & Tools To Appreciate Your Nonprofit Staff and Build A Culture of Resilience

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

“ Celebrating Each Other To Create An Enjoyable Place to Work ,” suggests that activities that recognize people in the workplace are part of a good workplace culture. Not surprisingly, there are number of tools that allow your organization to automate saying thanks and recognizing people.

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Mapping Your Online/Offline Activism: Surfrider Foundation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They use Internet tools and regional trainings to support learning across the network. He talked about the balance between "atom-based" work -- staffing, offline activities, showing up at hearings, etc and "bit-based work" their work online - Facebook pages, etc. Their chapters grow faster than internal staff can support them.

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Activating the Activists with Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

How do we activate the online activists to take action offline?" I was not presenting, but decided to use Twitter crowd source some suggestions, screencapture them, and put those into my presentation later in the day. They are quite successful - [link] jonratliff @ kanter face to face meetings deepen the enthusiasm for activism.

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New and Improved Data Visualization Tool: Maps for Media Funding

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Nonprofit data nerds will love this new resource from Media Impact Funders and Foundation Center called “ Foundation Maps for Media Funding ,” a free, interactive mapping and research tool that shows the full scope of philanthropically funded media projects worldwide since 2009. Media Applications and Tools.

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