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966 Articles match "Build","Community"
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Thursday, March 11, 2010
Today, the telecentre is in Lota , one of the poorest cities and Chile and one of the communities hit worst by the earthquake. Thanks to the rapid response from CDI Chile's team and the initial funding from the Canadian Embassy, 10 days after the earthquake, the community of Lota has been the first to receive access to communications using the mobile telecentre. Fundación CEPAS gladly received our team and the mobile telecentre, allocating a safe Earlier this week , we told you about TechSoup partner CDI Chile 's plan to restore connectivity to Chilean NGOs. The CDI Mobile Telecentre
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Thursday, March 11, 2010
Crowd Sourcing Innovative Social Change panel Sunday, March 14 at 03:30 PM – “Social media builds buzz and raises money, but what about real, on-the-ground change? Digital Marketing for Non-Profits panel Saturday, March 13 at 03:30 PM – “How to work with limited marketing budgets and a failing economy to build an online brand, raise awareness of a cause and fundraise effectively. Author: Jordan Viator
It’s less than 24 hours until the masses start filling the Austin Convention Center for one of the biggest and best Interactive conferences of the
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Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Twenty years ago, I was building computer training labs in homeless shelters with no hardware budget. We simply had to trial-and-error our way through it, much like the 600 or so nonprofit refurbishers in the Community MAR network . I developed a small refurbishing operation with a bunch of homeless guys who were much better at fixing things than I.
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Thursday, August 6, 2009
My current job title includes the term “Community Builder” and I get asked nearly every day just what that means: how do you build community? where is the community you want to build? how can I be a community builder online? My latest post is up on the Stanford Social Innovation Review opinion blog. You can read the full post and join the conversation on SSIR here.
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Friday, March 27, 2009
TechSoup community leader Megan has a new honorific to add to her growing list : " ultimate online party host ." quot; Katrina at Hot Tub had a chat with Megan about online community building, and Katrina's notes are well worth the read.
Tools Web Buildin One of the big takeaways is the importance of hands-on leadership. What makes TechSoup's forums work is that each forum has multiple people monitoring it and making sure that no question or inquiry goes unanswered.
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Friday, March 13, 2009
Online Communities: what works, and what doesn't. View more presentations from Bart De waele . (tags: tags: online communities )
...Tags: Tags: slideshare community slideshow
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Monday, October 6, 2008
Here we are talking about requirements that point toward building a communication and collaboration network. Typical requirements that organizations bring us today include: a shared space to brainstorm, draft, edit public policy documents or strategy and tactics for advocacy campaigns space for community organizations doing the same kind of work, such as immigrant rights or youth services, to collaborate on development best practices documents spaces for researchers in different places or in different organizations to collaborate on community development or employer research agendas
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Tuesday, March 3, 2009
thought his five skills were equally significant viewed through the lens of the future "community manager". I should say as a preface that I think the term "community manager" completely sucks - but, as of right now, it's the one that seems to be sticking in describing the role of someone in charge of listening on behalf of an organization to the social web, analyzing what they hear, and providing strategic direction based on that information. etc), who does it, is I found another really awesome blog - Chief Marketing Technologist , written by Scott Brinker ( @chiefmartec ). He
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Wednesday, April 15, 2009
It sounds like a dry subject, but tagging is really super cool and ha massive implications for the design, building and nurturing of online communities and I thought I'd jot down some notes I took straight out of the book so you can see why. ************************************* How tagging works: 1) Tags are multiple ways of finding something 2) Tags are a way to browse 3) Tags are part of a community pool - act as a bridge between personal and community knowledge 4) Tags connect objects to other objects 5) Tags are hooks used to pull information together from other website that use tags,
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Saturday, April 25, 2009
For the TwiTip post, I rewrote it by adding steps for building community in general. Twitter can be a great space for building community around your membership-based organization, whether you work for a professional society, trade association or a cause-related nonprofit. Because Twitter is about conversation - and directed conversation can build community . (Image by Maggi_94) Here's a repost of my TwiTip Guest post from 4/11/09 . You've already read this, but I'm including it here for archival purposes.
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Tuesday, December 2, 2008
In her recent article, From Organizing Charity to Community Building, Susan Ellis of Energize Inc. Ellis recommends that volunteer managers focus on building community among the populations they serve, and describes the best volunteering as an "exchange." She writes about a program that connects elementary school children and seniors as an example of a beneficial volunteer exchange: "A nursing home near an elementary school was asked to open its dining room from 3:00 to 5:00 as a safe place for 'latchkey' children who otherwise had no adult supervision in the late afternoon
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Thursday, October 1, 2009
community. survivors on a personal basis and animate the community. I asked Brooke McMillan, Online Community Evangelist, for the Lance Armstrong Foundation, to share some examples of how they engage with their community.
October 2nd is LIVESTRONG Day- a day we set aside each year to focus on cancer survivors, advocacy efforts and community participation. Note from Beth: The Lance Armstrong Foundation , known by its nickname
“Livestrong”, Livestrong”, provides a network of support for people
diagnosed
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009
The site is a growing community of people who believe that social media
used Building a Movement in an Interconnected World: A Conversation with Jacqueline Novogratz While there is much to be gained by listening to and engaging with
the have her paired with Pat Mitchell at the Paley Center for Media recently for a conversation titled “Building a Movement in an Interconnected World.”
Note from Beth: This week I'm researching and thinking
about about the topic of creating movements.
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