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FEBRUARY 25, 2008

One of the above is the actual cover of " Visualizing Information for Advocacy " - a must read booklet from Tactical Technology Collective. NpTech Conversations. So, you want to build a MashUp? Take the NetSquared Mashup Challenge !

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MAY 24, 2011

My colleagues at The Monitor Institute just published a study called “ Disruption: Evolving Models of Engagement and Support ,&# a national study of member-based advocacy organizations. Nothing is settled about how even the most relevant and impactful advocacy organizations engage constituencies or attracts resources.

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AUGUST 10, 2007

Ruby Sinreich's Advocacy 2.0 Presentation Slides on flickr Blog post here. NpTech Talk. The Socialmarkets Manifesto is here. There are many sparks for conversation about the points raised. The "Failure is an option" particularly caught my eye.

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APRIL 11, 2011

These included website traffic, donations, email list size, and moving people to action (advocacy actions). And more than 65% said that they’d had some success with moving people to take some form of action for a cause, like signing petitions or other advocacy actions.

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JANUARY 4, 2007

" The organization also has an Advocacy blog. She has an incredible ability to take the most complex science and turn it around into language anyone can understand. s a lot harder than it looks." "We need to draw attention to colon cancer. This only happens through patients and their famliies.

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JUNE 1, 2015

The panel was moderated by Joel Beetsch, Vice President, Patient Advocacy, Celgene and Cara Thompson , Director of Patient Advocacy was the host for the event. The audience consisted of patient and professional patient advocacy organizations that were attending the ASCO meeting.

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OCTOBER 17, 2011

On-demand Advocacy. Rather than each of them building and maintaining their own lists, the advocacy organizations can use PreventObesity.net in an on-demand, mesh-like way. Are you listening LinkedIn? Marty Kearns, of Netcentric Campaigns, has a more intriguing answer to Efurd’s question.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Grantees, Experts, and Partners at the end of the Brainerd Foundation’s 21st Century Advocacy Design Lab. The purpose of the Design Lab was to answer two key questions to gather input for its strategy: How can the Brainerd Foundation and its philanthropic partners accelerate the transition to 21st Century advocacy for grantees?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2011

They are integrating social media tactics to their online advocacy tool box with this Twitter tool. The columns represent a simplified marketing funnel – how people make “purchase” decisions or in this case advocacy “action” decisions. Your organization’s “funnel” for advocacy may look different, it may have more stages.

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JULY 4, 2012

Saudatu Mahdi, she is as mentioned, Head of Secretariat for LACVAW (Legislative Advocacy Coalition on Violence Against Women) and Secretary General of WRAPA (Women's Rights and Protection Alternative). This was their advocacy material for communicating the urgency of a Bill against violence against persons in Nigeria.

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APRIL 26, 2017

One important part of effective digital measurement is being able to benchmark your performance relative to your organization’s past performance or compared to peer organizations. One excellent resource to use for benchmarking nonprofit digital results (in the US) is the annual M&R Benchmarks study of nonprofit digital advocacy.

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OCTOBER 7, 2007

Here's another flash site that allows you to "adopt the sky" while signing a petition. The EPA recently announced changes in ozone pollution standards that fall far short of what the scientific and health community recommends.

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DECEMBER 9, 2010

Last week, Dan Michel offered an intriguing answer to this question : “What form of social media measurement does your organization engage in; Community participation, advocacy (earned mentions, discussions), or donations ($ or time)? &#. As Michel notes, The bill passed and our advocacy folks are taking a well-deserved break.

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JANUARY 25, 2011

Daniel facilitated a network mapping activity with NNF’s 10 education advocacy staff from regional offices and headquarters. For example, all clusters associated with formal education or advocacy. Danielle connected me to Daniel Chu, Vice President, Affiliate and Regional Strategies and resident network weaving enthusiast.

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JULY 31, 2012

It is a nonprofits dream – to have its advocacy campaign messaging go viral on Facebook or social media channels. Her insights are useful to other nonprofits working on integrated advocacy campaigns. Here’s an analysis of what and why it happened from the HSUS’s Director of Emerging Media – Carie Lewis.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2011

I noticed several creative examples that incorporate social media with the Valentine’s Day theme combined with social good objectives. They range from encouraging a change in behavior, advocacy calls to action, shopping, and acknowledging people in nonprofits. Reboot Valentine’s Day.

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OCTOBER 1, 2013

Our Syria appeal is a total team effort and has a three-part objective: awareness, advocacy and fundraising. The advocacy objective is to gather public support for humanitarian access to Syria by signing and sharing a petition. What channels? Given that your CEO tweets as herself -how does her use of Twitter support this campaign?

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MARCH 18, 2012

There are three paths to scaling organizational impact beyond the confines of one’s current organizational context (that will be familiar to most): advocacy, knowledge sharing or (an old funder standby) scaling services. Want to scale through advocacy? Myth #2: Nonprofits looking to scale must excel in all competencies.

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JULY 24, 2012

Strategic integration into children’s health advocacy. Support national partner Facebook chats, blog carnivals, and other networked advocacy activities. One of the successes was how most participants are learning to balance the strategic with the spontaneous of social media as described in this blog post. Written social media policy.

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JUNE 20, 2011

The full-day conference is all about practical tips and tools for fundraising, marketing and advocacy. The day includes keynotes, workshops by leading experts and interactive roundtables. I’ll be leading an end of the day conversational keynote about how nonprofits can embrace free agent fundraisers.

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APRIL 1, 2013

.” The book offers up advice and techniques on how to make your online channels – email marketing, web site, and newer tools like mobile and social media work together in a sophisticated strategy or your organization to reach its advocacy, fundraising, or community building goals.

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JANUARY 31, 2012

Pioneers in Justice” operates as a forum to explore social media tools that may power their local advocacy work and explore “networked” ways of collaboration within the social justice sector – and equally important, a space to address any concerns that may surface along the way.

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JULY 9, 2018

We will be talking about emerging best practices for using bots and artificial intelligence for nonprofits for fundraising, marketing, program delivery, advocacy, and internal management. If you are in NYC, you are invited to join us !

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FEBRUARY 20, 2007

Now, this is a cool use of a widget! It is part of an awareness raising campaign about switching to CFL light blubs. I can customize the widget to give me the information by state, city, or zip code. The 18seconds.org CFL Summit is taking place on February 22, 2007 and will be held at the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jos??,

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JUNE 13, 2012

Peer influence is the driving force behind some of the most successful fundraising and advocacy campaigns we see today. I’m one of the bloggers and I will be covering a session called “Leveraging Peer Influence” with Paull Young, Charity Water and Holly Ross, NTEN. The description.

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DECEMBER 21, 2006

I couldn't attend the Global s Summit this year in person, but did it via IRC ever so briefly. I'm kept up to date by traditional means too - like this Wired article. Check out the Tunisian Prison Map. in New York City.

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JULY 5, 2016

It encompasses a vast array of activities from developing mobile phone apps to launching advocacy campaigns to strengthening the policies and infrastructures involved in media creation, transmission and access. This like doing a landscape analysis with a simple click!

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JANUARY 25, 2012

Open Graph is particularly exciting for those of us in the social good space because awareness-raising and advocacy are often core to the work we do. I think this is a particularly exciting opportunity for organizations that see awareness-raising and advocacy as core objectives in the coming year.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Given they are an advocacy group, their key results are different from say, the Smithsonian Archives which has a different set of foundational metrics. These will be different depending on the nonprofit’s mission and programs, but are based on a theory of change or asking to what end? What will change?

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OCTOBER 1, 2009

October 2nd is LIVESTRONG Day- a day we set aside each year to focus on cancer survivors, advocacy efforts and community participation. The petition will be on our advocacy website LIVESTRONGAction.org. October 2nd is also the anniversary of our founder’s, Lance Armstrong, cancer diagnosis.

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DECEMBER 10, 2009

It's real time and location based social networks are also impacting advocacy. My guess is as we enter 2010, might we see the invention of Real Time Web fundraising events As more nonprofit explore the possibilities of location-based social networks and fundraising , the distinctions between online/offline fundraising will melt away.

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DECEMBER 15, 2008

At this stage, it is clear that nonprofit and advocacy groups are headed for extraordinarily difficult financial times. The cash crunch for the advocacy movement will be as bad as we can imagine and far worse than we can easily manage. There are also some draft recommendations for individuals working within advocacy movements.

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MAY 19, 2014

It’s the latest in a series of efforts to more tightly connect offline activities—whether they be advocacy actions above the water or trash clean-ups underwater—to the online world. Since embracing an online movement-building approach in 2011, Project AWARE’s community has tripled its support base to 1.5 million divers.

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JANUARY 17, 2012

Here’s a sampling: Our organization does advocacy around some policy issues. Here’s a sampling: Our organization does advocacy around some policy issues. How do the rules on lobbying play into our social media strategy? What if we’re asking people to take action on Facebook, does that constitute lobbying?

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APRIL 6, 2012

Vinay Bhagat of Convio was given the 2012 Care2 Impact Prize for his outstanding impact in online advocacy and fundraising. Several individuals in the nonprofit technology community were recognized.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2009

Invest in social media capacity as a means of achieving brand building, advocacy and fundraising goals. Measure social media with key metrics for visibility, engagement and advocacy . Focus on two-way conversations that build meaningful and sustainable connections with a range of priority audiences.

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MARCH 24, 2015

Twitter is also used as a complementary advocacy strategy when reaching out to policymakers on a human rights issue. Says Murphy, “It helped us draw attention to the crisis with a good number of foreign ministers and journalists using it – helping us reach our advocacy objective.”

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