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Groups: A Review of Five Platforms to Build Community

Care2

If your group would make for an active and participatory email listserv, it will probably work as a group too. Can building a Facebook Group impact advocacy? Our goal is to pick up the pace this month, especially since we're launching a campaign to meet w/new members of Congress. It could get unwieldy quickly.

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Are Memes Really Just Slacktivism?

Care2

This begs the question - should a breast cancer organization have been the one to have thought of a meme like this as part of a larger campaign to raise awareness about breast cancer? It’s a vanity metric – not a metric that is connected to furthering your advocacy goals. Can You Build a Base of Supporters with Memes?

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Using Social Networking Sites for Campaigns: An Interview with Carie Lewis, HSUS

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In April, I blogged about HSUS "Stop Canada's Cruel Seal Hunt" campaign over at blogher and my blog and last December on my blog as part of a roundup of articles on using social networking spaces for campaigns. tools for online advocacy. Tell me about the Stop Canada's Cruel Seal Hunt campaign? Sunny (the seal).

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Guest Post by Allyson Kapin: Top 8 Social Media Tracking Tools

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Spend 15 minutes a day talking to the community and cross promoting your campaigns, news, etc. Care2’s Petition Site: Start a free petition on the Petition Site to rally support around one of your latest campaigns. Pick Two Social Networks: My two favorite social networks are Twitter and Facebook (Fanpages). Bonus points!

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