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Community Building begins with Community Organizing

Amy Sample Ward

We focused on principles for community building and community organizing, as well as examples of both short-term and long-term engagement. Here are the slides! Principles of Community Organizing. And maybe the community wants to endorse a specific candidate, and your organization doesn’t. Transparency.

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Association 4.0—A Playbook for Success

.orgSource

It’s a frenemy they’ve learned how to manage. Sig VanDamme, the Founder of NimbleUser, GoJectory, and VA2A, offered this advice to bring the board along on those speculative ventures: Preparing a board to manage risk is a sales process. When we started the company, we had over $1 million worth of business doing slides.

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January 2022 equity update to the community

NTEN

This evaluation process involves all three equity committees, including board, community, and staff. We hired two new staff in 2021 and engaged the new staff and their managers in reflection about the onboarding and hiring process. We reviewed the sliding scale for membership. Staff, board, and volunteers. 2022 focus.

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Using Twitter to Build a Community and Recruit Volunteers

Amy Sample Ward

Last week, I had the opportunity to present at the 2011 Volunteer Management for Nonprofits Conference here in New York. I’ve presented about Twitter before, as well, so in addition to sharing some notes and resources, and my slides, from the presentation on Friday, I want to also round up other Twitter-related posts and links here.

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[VIDEO] Creative Ways People Contribute to Community

Bloomerang

Lindsay Simonds will decode the top five most impactful ways people contribute to communities. By understanding core motivations, intentions, perspectives reflected in this webinar, you will be able to build a stronger case for support, increase the impact you have, and gain strategies for creating and preserving community.

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Community Engagement and Social Media for Public Media

Amy Sample Ward

I recently had the opportunity to present a webinar for the National Center for Media Engagement , focused on community-driven engagement, and present a session at the Public Media Development and Marketing Conference , talking about building a social media strategy. Defining Community. Engaging Community.

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Social Media in 30 Minutes a Day

Amy Sample Ward

Here are the slides from the session and links to get you started: Social Media in 30 Minutes a Day. Community Map Template: [link]. Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission. List of Social Media Management Systems. DIY Community Engagement Metrics. Crowdsourcing vs Community Sourcing. Networked Nonprofit.