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Groups: A Review of Five Platforms to Build Community

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If your organization is focused on building community among your activists and donors you’ve probably had to choose an online group tool. But which platform is best for your group? The most successful groups on Facebook are those whose members are passionate about the group’s focus and goals.

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Are Memes Really Just Slacktivism?

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It’s a vanity metric – not a metric that is connected to furthering your advocacy goals. Online Advocacy Online Fundraising Online Marketing' .” Just because a breast cancer organization like Komen received over 100K “likes” in 24 hours does not mean they leveraged this meme in a meaningful way.

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Case Study: How Human Rights Watch Leverages Employee Personal Brands on Twitter

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In addition, they have an internal listserv for support where staff share suggested tweets for new reports or new features or techniques on Twitter. ” Since the strategy has been in place, many HRW staff as a group engaging on Twitter has lead to impressive results. Many tweets lead to press calls.”. There’s another benefit.

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Social Networks for Social Change: Ivan Boothe Knows What He Is Talking About!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

tags: fundraising advocacy ) I was lucky enough to meet Ivan Boothe at the first (or maybe second) Netsquared Conference back in 2005 and have been following his work for years. So he cautioned me that some of the information might not be entirely up to date that he shared on listserv including a pointer to his awesome slide show with audio.

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More Facebook and Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Nonprofits can use groups). The resulting discussion thread on the progressive exchange listserv prompted some reflections on how nonprofits can effectively use Facebook. If so, it seems dubious that sponsored (read: billable) groups like Wal-Mart are welcome to market themselves despite intense community backlash.

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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

I've been following Carie Lewis's posts on the NTEN Affinity groups as well as other nonprofit tech listservs (yes, I still do read listservs) and caught up with her for an interview. tools for online advocacy. We pointed people to youtube to watch the videos and to our website to participate in the advocacy.

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A. Fine Interview:Social Media Author Allison Fine - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) All of these tools are cheap and easy to use.