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JANUARY 30, 2014

That’s exactly what the Latino Community Foundation did. Tell us briefly about the mission of the Latino Community Foundation (purpose, staffing/budget size, and fundraising history). The Latino Community Foundation (LCF) is the premier Latino fund in California. LCF is a champion and advocate for the Latino community.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2010

This workshop, graciously hosted by the Community Foundation of Monterey County with support from the Packard Foundation, was a two-part session. The first session, facilitated by colleague Daniel Cohen, focused on creating a communications strategy. Community Foundation of Monterey. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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JULY 4, 2011

Unless you are an Internet personality, an organization with a full-time community manager or a professional online content publisher, there is not enough time to succeed in the multitude of social networks AND manage your own social content. Others will simply focus on the networks that have the most impact on their community.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

At this year’s Council on Foundations conference in New Orleans, I had the honor of doing a mini-workshop for CEOs of Community Foundations as part of a half-day pre-conference session organized by the Knight Digital Media Center called “Digital Strategies for Community Foundations.” This takes patience.

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DECEMBER 1, 2010

Freely sharing and facilitating community knowledge is part of my DNA as it for many colleagues in the nonprofit technology field. There is an added benefit to learning communities. I then modeled this support on the online community — and we quickly had a village of practitioners supporting one of another.

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JANUARY 19, 2011

One of the project tasks is to develop a multilingual online learning community for partners, contributors, sponsors, participants, teams, mentors, social media techies from the region, and trainers to interact and share best practices. What has been your experience with user-centered design process for online communities and web sites?

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APRIL 11, 2010

This year we toasted NTEN's first decade and people in the community who have been there since the beginning (including me ) But I'd like to raise a glass and toast Holly Ross, NTEN's executive director. She is not only an extraordinary organizational leader, but she is a brilliant community builder! Holly has been NTEN for ten years!

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MARCH 21, 2010

But beyond all of the hype and noise, the most dominant theme I keep coming back to is that community is and always will be King. Even if you have the most awesome web site, campaign, or cause out there, you need a thoughtful and dedicated community behind it in order for it to be successful. Some may exist solely online.

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OCTOBER 1, 2009

An early adopter of social media, the Lance Armstrong Foundation leverages social media to engage, connect, and celebrate its community. The LAF uses its Facebook fan page and Twitter profile as a way to directly connect with cancer survivors on a personal basis and animate the community.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Palo Alto Community Fund. Last evening, I had the pleasure of presenting a Networked Nonprofit mini-workshop for a group of about 50 local nonprofits and government agencies in Palo Alto hosted by the Palo Alto Community Fund. Palo Alto Community Fund View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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MARCH 31, 2009

Most of my work in social media and nonprofits has been focused on the how to integrate a social media strategy as part of an organization's external communications plan or "outward" facing to engage audiences, consumers, and supporters. Wikis for Communities of Practice conference. Technology for Communities project.

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AUGUST 22, 2009

The topic was the role that artists can play in shaping communities with particular focus on plans for 9/11, a new National Day of Service and Remembrance. The idea is to find ways that artists can help spread the message of service and also highlight the service work that artists already perform in communities nationwide. Take photos.

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JANUARY 29, 2009

I interviewed technology practitioners from the poverty law community about how they approach ROI and significant technology systems investments like client databases, document assembly systems, or video conference systems. Bill Johnston has some additional thoughts for building a case for ROI for an online community. Do you agree?

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

Here's an update from Mike Everett-Lane on the Social Actions blog about how the nonprofit tech community is supporting the event. Do a Internet Health Check : If you need an idea of how to help a local community, the good folks at Mozilla has lots of great ideas that are simple activities that can help make the Web better.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Spot.Us - Community Funded Reporting Intro from Digidave on Vimeo. It's a marketplace where independent reporters, community members and news organizations can come together and collaborate. Dave interviews Beth - Beth interviews Dave ). Dave is a journalist 2.0,

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JUNE 26, 2009

If social media is about individuals conversing authentically with a community, who's in charge of the conversation? To whit: the second coming of the online community manager. ReadWriteWeb has a new report out, " The Read Write Web Guide to Community Management ", that marks the ascension of the online community manager (2.0).

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JANUARY 14, 2009

Despite the tough economic times, it seems the community is really excited about the 2009 NTC. That shows the community considers NTEN of great value. So, I wondered outloud in a tweet whether the community could kick in some of their frequent flyer miles. If you're coming to NTC, I hope you'll volunteer for this event.).

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FEBRUARY 22, 2024

I’m excited to speak at the Nonprofit Marketing Summit: The Unthinkable on March 5-7, hosted by Community Boost ! 2: Join a community of over 25,000+ nonprofit professionals so you can connect with the most impactful organizations in the industry. 3: Maximum Impact, all FREE for you: Pay $0.00

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MARCH 28, 2007

It looks like the participation rates are similar for other online communities. This is an illustration of the next generation of the social web. People watching objects and having conversations about the tags.

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DECEMBER 31, 2007

Roger Carr from the Everyday Giving Blog presented the Bloggers Who Create Community Award to Beth's Blog! She also shares an astounding amount of useful information with the community for free. Beth Kanter has created a huge community of nonprofit and technology experts who are changing the world. Thank you Roger!

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DECEMBER 14, 2008

On December 17th, the Youtube community will participate in a video making party that celebrates charities. Here's more about this community effort. YouTube users are invited to make a video about their favorite charity and why they support it. Here's the how to and you can find the templates here.

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JANUARY 30, 2008

Zena Weist is wondering about whether Chris Brogan's Twitter Pack Project can be defined as community sourcing which distinctly different than crowd sourcing. Here's what Zena is asking: Define community sourcing. with me.help me expand on this post and live the definition along the way.

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MAY 14, 2009

My colleague Marshall Kirkpatrick at Read/Write Web gave me a sneak peak at their Guide to Online Community Management Report and Aggregator. The report condenses and summarizes the best thinking about online community management from a cadre of experts - those are online community manager practitioners and gurus.

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AUGUST 16, 2006

So I don't loose track of the links, I attended a session about blogging and community that Nancy White is organized and moderated along with Melanie Morgan , Susannah Gardner and Lauren Gelman (who I heard speak at the Games for Change Conference last month.) Nancy has shared some of her thinking on this topic.

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MARCH 16, 2007

Indeed, I've been looking for some research that confirms that the lurker to participant ratio in online communities (see Nielsen ) holds true for some web2.0 online communities, like tagging communities, digg communities, and others. However, as Stephen notes, the data is very useful.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2007

Another set of skills that go into that job description -- well at least for nonprofits who don't have the resources to have fully funded positions in on area - are community management skills. There was a post on Seth Godin's blog talking about this.

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OCTOBER 10, 2008

Ning, which lets you set up your own custom social network, has attracted attention for its ability to create communities that are more functional than those created through competing services from Google and Yahoo listservs. Community Media Workshop???s Who on staff is the "community manager"? All about the Forums.

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JUNE 27, 2008

So, is this a community or a network or something in between? A few weeks back, Nancy White put a parking lot for the question " Where is the magic between communities and a network? This community acts as the curriculum, spontaneously shaping, constructing, and reconstructing itself and the subject of its learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2006

By default MyBlogLog users join the community of a site using MyBlogLog after ten visits to that site, but you can increase that number or require manual joining. I've been playing with this widget for about week and think it has some potential for community building or at least the ability for your readers to get to know one another.

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JULY 13, 2008

After that the shift to building community online was a natural. The community had a need & my sister & I found a product that fulfilled it. What is the definition of a successful online community? Nonprofits are beginning to embrace social media - particularly the online community building aspect.

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JULY 9, 2009

This morning Peggy Duvette and Angus Parker from WiserEarth spent some time at the Foundation sharing their experiences in building successful online communities of action and networks of networks on the WiserEarth online platform. Peggy and Angus shared some tips for online community building. These include: What are your goals?

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JULY 27, 2008

I think it was point 3 that connects: Community learning, so that is what you call it! Dave Cormier has been my critical friend as I write personal reflections on the community as curriculum process we're using to develop the content through the WeAreMedia Project. Another point about goals: Community Literacies esp.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2008

This is part of series of reflections on what I've learned about working wikily through working on NTEN's WeAreMedia wiki - not so much the content, but the community curriculum development and knowledge sharing process. Dave's most recent critical friend post offers some thoughts about community. mmm… community.

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MAY 28, 2008

I wanted to attend the session by Alexandra Samuel from Social Signal about community building. One of the key benefits of social media is that you can actually be in two places at the same time. I had to finish my video blogging assignments. However, I was able to get the key points from live blog posts and tweets from my colleagues.

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JANUARY 18, 2010

In November, the Chase Community Giving. Over the holidays and into early January, the Chase Community Giving contest quietly implemented a leader board , a scoreboard showing who is winning based on the number of votes. In November, the Chase Community Giving launched a contest on Facebook. launched a contest on Facebook.

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MAY 7, 2008

The second week of the workshop started last week and it is a week of "field trips" to existing communities of practice. I followed to lead trip into the NpTech Tag Community. or social technologies into community of practice work ask amazing questions. May not translate to other communities.

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APRIL 6, 2009

I am participating in this year's " Connected Futures: New Social Strategies adn Tools for Communities of Practice " a five week online workshop for community managers, designers and conveners to explore social strategies and tools to support their work. Be sure to check out the Technology for Communities wiki too).

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