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How To: DIY Community & Content Mapping

Amy Sample Ward

During this time, I’ve help create community maps and strategic plans with my own team and with many other groups. But more than that, this exercise helps identify where you should concentrate efforts, where to distribute messages, and where you have the best chance of successfully engaging the community to support your work.

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Guest Post on Frogloop: 5 Tips for Running a Competition

Amy Sample Ward

NetSquared supports the community at the intersection of technology and social impact in a few ways, including open innovation competitions. Remember to also provide opportunities for people to promote or support your competition like links to your social media outlets and ready-to-use messages. Tip #2: Pay attention.

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Designing Programs to Build Community: Case Study with Charity Technology Trust

Amy Sample Ward

Now that we have talked about who the community is and what it wants, as well as our goals and current resources, we have probably also identified opportunities for engagement – it may be ideas for specific groups or the whole network and it may be supporting an effort another group is already spearheading or starting something new.

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Mastering Social Networking as a Volunteer

Amy Sample Ward

And the content – is that a platform or application that supports that kind of content? Regardless of which Facebook option you choose, track which kinds of posts or content your community responds to the most to help make the most engaging space you can. So, what is the content you want to share? What do you think?

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New on SSIR: You can has memesez?

Amy Sample Ward

But beyond that, contributing to a popular meme can help make your brand and even your staff more visible. You can also leverage participation in a meme to build connections and get new supporters. That said, having fun, gaining visibility, and making connections with new supporters happens only if you do it right.

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Great reads from around the web on October 27th

Amy Sample Ward

If you are going to organise an event, a conference or a public meeting, you should seriously consider organising a team of social reporters to help spread the information and stimulate conversations before, during and after the event." In addition to funding, the tools below can engage new supporters, constituents and future advocates.

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2011 MyCharityConnects Conference Workshop: Social Media in 30 Minutes a Day

Amy Sample Ward

Description : The world of social media expands every day, supporting all those arguments. our work, and even life, we just need the tools to help us be deliberate and. and doubts about whether it’s worth the time and energy to get started when. it seems there’s so much to learn first. But, just like all of the other areas of.