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246 Articles match "America","Organization"
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Thursday, March 18, 2010
In addition to running a youth organization or a job training program or an environmental advocacy campaign, you are also running an information and technology system on which you do your work. cities across America, Canada, Europe, the UK and South America, local networks of techies, marketers, project managers, storytellers, and others got together, identified problems and projects, shared those ideas across the network with other camps, assigned teams, built prototypes, shared and tested and launched several applications. Lucy Bernholz, Blueprint R+D
Once Once upon
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Wednesday, March 17, 2010
For example, through a Twitter campaign during the conference, Mark Horwath raised $50,000 for his organization InvisiblePeople.tv to help promote awareness of homelessness in America. Other panels on social good explored crowdsourcing ideas to change the world, and brought folks together during the CauseLabs to brainstorm offline solutions to ending hunger in America. Reflections on community at SxSW
Andrew , Bill , and I just got back from the South by Southwest Interactive Festival , where we spent nearly a week drinking from the proverbial technology innovation firehose.
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Monday, March 8, 2010
A look at how organic net-roots movements
were three main challenges to ending hunger in America, and will be holding
brainstorming If you're like me, the arrival each March of the SXSW Interactive Festival is a
huge huge deal. It's time to rekindle relationships with my extended
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Wednesday, September 16, 2009
You'll have access to the chat transcripts and the content over at the WeAreMedia wiki . Amy Sample Ward has a great post about the WeAreMedia Webinar here . A few months ago YouTube announced that organizations that are in the YouTube Nonprofit Program
would Tags: america giving challenge vlog wearemedi Video embed:
Note from Beth: Michael Hoffman wrote a fantastic guest post over the summer about viral video strategies for nonprofits. So, invited to guest post again.
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Friday, May 29, 2009
I flew back from DC last night on Virgin America. They permitted the use of cell phones, so I tweeted that even if you are delayed, it's a pleasant experience on Virgin America. A minute later I noticed Pistachio's tweet about flying Virgin America from Boston and Glenn Stratchan direct messaged me asking what seat I was in because he thought we might be on the same Virgin America flight.
I've been in Washington, DC for the Network Effectiveness and Social Media Strategy Map working session for Packard Foundation Grantees convened by Monitor Institute.
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009
What 3-5 questions should organization's be asking as they venture into social media? Is your organization ready to be a learning organization? How do you balance cross generational voices within your organization, and who should own the soc media?
Tags: america giving challenge backchannel crowdsourcing engagemen Yesterday, I had an opportunity to be interviewed as part of a series of online interviews with nonprofit social media gurus about how to use social media. The month long event was hosted by the Case Foundation and called " Gear Up for Giving ." The
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Sunday, October 18, 2009
In 2007-2008 America’s Giving Challenge encouraged 70,000 individuals to help raise more than $1.8 million for nonprofit organizations. With the explosion of social media, America’s Giving Challenge hopes to get even more people involved this year and raise a lot more money for nonprofits. The 2009 America’s The heated competition will run through November 6 th . Just as in 2007-2008, the causes will compete to win cash awards totaling $170,000.
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Monday, June 22, 2009
Of note, I wanted to let you know that the reflection paper about America's Giving Challenge from the Case Foundation has been published ( Allison Fine and I were the co-authors.) My take away was from something that Marnie Webb said, "The new tools allow people to self-organize, something that nonprofits have been great at doing. causes as well as organizations (and they did so in large There's a lot happening this week in the nonprofit and social media space, particularly related to encouraging generosity, giving, and volunteering using social media tools. So much
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Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Over the last few weeks I have been running a Facebook Advertising experiment for the Nonprofit Organizations Facebook Page . Facebook should launch a Facebook Ads Grant Program for Nonprofit Organizations.
It has taken 22 months and lots of promotion for the Nonprofit Organizations Page to reach 8,389 fans. While the ad itself produced little-to-no results, some unexpected Facebook insights did come out of running the ad. The results are below:
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Sunday, December 13, 2009
Now answer this, how much time is your organization spending on reaching out to Millennials (people who were born between 1981 and 2000)? In short, this generation is reshaping America. Tags: Marketing Research Online Marketing Online Organizing Social Networking Trend Be honest, does your nonprofit create online advocacy and fundraising campaigns that are reactive or proactive? Chances are most of them are reactive, which can leave many small online teams scrambling to react to news, legislation or changes in bills.
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Sunday, April 5, 2009
Take a look at the web site of any well-established nonprofit organization , and you'll probably see past invitations to these types of events or one for an upcoming event We're seeing the rise of social media to promote, organize, and in some cases hold the actual charity event itself. While initially driven by "free agent" fundraisers (those not on the organization's board or staff, but who are fans and social media users), we'll begin to see more and more as nonprofits adopt social media as part of their fundraising tool box.
(From an article in the New York Times
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Wednesday, July 30, 2008
This is a good background on the foundation of what trends are really playing with modern movement organizing. As Benkler's ides sink in it transforms the way you think about organizing and what is possible.
Long-term campaigns built deliberately around network organizing are just being contemplated by the leaders in our sector.
I have said it before Yochai Benkler is my hero. (hard hard to read ..better
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Saturday, December 15, 2007
One of our dedicated volunteers in the US, Mary Hult, is in charge of the crafts and organizing our volunteers who sell items all year long. Sina and her two sisters
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Sina , age 16, is an orphan and head of her family, and takes care of two younger sisters.
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