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NpTech Tag Summary: NpTech Slide Decks, Twitter Saves Children, and Visualizing Information for Advocacy

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One of the above is the actual cover of " Visualizing Information for Advocacy " - a must read booklet from Tactical Technology Collective. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. NpTech Conversations. So, you want to build a MashUp? And if you???re

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Tear It Down and Virtual Guantanamo: Two Examples of Virtual Advocacy

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Both projects are engaging examples of virtual advocacy, with one creating a virtual representation of the detention center in the virtual world Second Life and the other, a flash-based web site that has a video game quality to it. s America I Believe In campaign that seeks to restore America???s This project is part of AIUSA???s

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Feeling Inspired Thanks to NTEN and the ConnectingUp! Conference

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Many of the conference workshops helped in making me more aware of how to become a technology leader, not only within our organization but in sharing what I've learned with 211s across North America. They recommended following interesting and smart people, listening and sharing and asking for contributions through guest bloggers.

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Your Supporters ARE the Message

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McConnon is a Colorado blogger. He realized he could spend his money on that most quintessential of all "made in America" items -- the United States Constitution -- and decided to send the entire rebate to the ACLU. " And, as any true blogger would do, he wrote about this in his Daily Kos diary.

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Guest Post by Heather McLeod Grant: MomsRising: What We Can Learn from New Online Models

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As part of our ongoing research project into the future of membership-based advocacy organizations, we’ve been talking to folks from “new” as well as “older” groups focused on issue-organizing. The campaign has been blogged about extensively, and is often held up as a model for creative ways to build a membership list.

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Reflections: Social Media and NGO/CSR Workshop in India

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For example, I include information about Forrester's Social TechnoGraphics profiles as part of the social media game which is based on US data. Using that information, I was able to customize. Geoff talks about three different approaches used in America (Mission, Problem, and Family).

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Meet Nicola M. Wells: Social Media As An Online Door Knocking Campaign for Immigrant Rights

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Wells, Blogger and Community Organizer "We need to treat many of our social tools like door knocking, if someone comments on our site, we should take that as a hello, and use it to open a door to a potential relationship with a new leader, member, or supporter." " Nicola M. Wells is an activist for immigrant rights.