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How Nonprofits can Use Analytics with Advocacy

Connection Cafe

Analytic Activism documents how nonprofits are using analytics to listen, experiment, learn, and thrive in the digital era. In this blog post, I want to discuss two big themes from chapter 1 of the book. pages 5-11 of chapter 1). A press release is just a piece of paper in the absence of media organizations.

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Social Media Roadblock: An Interview with Wendy Harman, Red Cross - Social Media Strategy Case Study

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I asked my current volunteer (who happens to be a social media genius and a member of ARC's National Youth Council) to draft a "press release" announcing it. I wouldn't normally do a press release, but on such short notice we needed to get the word out. We have several chapters who are social media savvy.

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NCVS: Mission-Driven Technology Planning

Tech Soup

Organizations with healthy IT infrastructures are continually making iterative improvements based on their program needs, documenting those improvements, and monitoring for future iterations. Document all of those lists and take note of how much overlap there is among them. She's great. That may be trickier than you'd think.

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NCVS: Mission-Driven Technology Planning

Tech Soup

Organizations with healthy IT infrastructures are continually making iterative improvements based on their program needs, documenting those improvements, and monitoring for future iterations. Document all of those lists and take note of how much overlap there is among them. She's great. That may be trickier than you'd think.

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Road Trip! Fundraising, Advocacy, Community Building, Storytelling and Recruitment on the Road.

Care2

Building buzz and press for an advocacy action. Building local chapters. telling the stories of homeless individuals across the United States has been well documented. This meant that press from the road trip also contributed to the buzz around the larger event. Raising funds. Creating meaningful volunteer opportunities.

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Leading the Participant

Museum 2.0

The students are each given roles on one of three teams--the Oval Office, a military command center, and a press room. Each time the students decide what to do, the young Reagan picks up a red phone and presses either A or B. The topic is the invasion of Grenada. Then more information, then another binary choice. Maybe, maybe not.

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[Webinar Notes] Mobile for Good: A How-To Fundraising Webinar for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Attended by more than 2,000 nonprofit professionals and volunteers, the webinar featured one best practice from each of the book’s sixteen chapters and provided the basis for writing and implementing a comprehensive mobile and social fundraising strategy. Chapter 1: Nonprofit Technology and Fundraising. Chapter 2: Get Organized.

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