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October Community Builder Chat – Connecting On and Offline Communities #commbuild

Amy Sample Ward

Today’s Community Builder chat focused on examples and best practices for connecting on and offline community activities, events, and organizing. You can look at #sfaddis to see what they did recently from Addis Ababa in Ethiopia. Recap: October. Get the October Chat archive. Second Life and IRL at TechSoup HQ in SF.

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Nonprofits in the Autonomous World: Will the Bots Take Over?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Bots needs to be designed increase engagement, support and inspire offline action. When you send a message to this Facebook Messenger bot named Yeshi, she tells her story about how her daily walk for clean water in Ethiopia. . A policy for how to respond to negative comments or social media workflow.

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Dancefloor and Balcony: What I learned about emergent online collaboration from Eugene Eric Kim

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There are now 990 actively engaged Fellows— across the five focal countries of Ethiopia, Nigeria, India, Pakistan, and the Philippines—regularly participating in the Leadership Development for Mobilizing Reproductive Health network activities. With international networks, it is important to recognize cultural norms both online and offline. (2)

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Joitske Hulsebosch: Blogs, NGOs, and Developing Countries

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In Ethiopia, she did organizational capacity building work for a local network of NGOs. An offline newsletter or meeting is very important in Ghana for instance for reaching people as they don???t She notes, "I started in Kenya working with a water users association, living in a thatched hut!"

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Amanda Rose, Twestival Leader, Reflects on Twestival

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Amanda Rose at the London Twestival Photo was taken by @mikebutcher The Twestival combined online twitter fundraising with a groundswell of offline self organized events in 202 cities around the world on February 12th. Scott Harrison, founder of charity: water was enroute to Ethiopia when we discussed Twestival.

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[VIDEO] 5 Must-Do’s of Year-End Fundraising Success

Bloomerang

Paul to teach them a bit about what goes on in Ethiopia, or Uganda, or wherever their camps are. And it is for both online and offline actions. One of my longtime clients, they do work all over the world, literally, and they used to bring people into their healing center in St. And that all stopped last year.

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