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Building Capacity for Social Change 2.0

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Photo by Beth Kanter. Thankfully, there is an emerging group of practitioners – both network leaders / weavers on the ground, and consultants/ intermediaries – who are beginning to develop the knowledge and tools to tackle this work: in the form of publications, on-line blog posts, curriculum for training, and through peer-to-peer learning.

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NTC Day of Service: Our Tenth Year!

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In order to pull off this event, we need not only need enthusiastic and knowledgeable volunteers, but strong local partners who serve as our bridge to the local community of nonprofits. In 2007, we revamped the event so that volunteers no longer left the conference for the day and did two-hour strategy consults in the morning.

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How Helpful is Teaching Nonprofits How to Fish?

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Flickr Photo by Minarae. Packard recently surveyed 274 of these grantees from 2007-2009 (grant amounts ranged between $7,000 and $160,000) and analyzed the responses from 169 (a 62% response rate) to ascertain the outcomes. ( He can be reached at pconnolly@tccgrp.com.

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Guest Post by Kira Marchenese: What Happened When We Introduced 350 Staff to Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Find more photos like this on So You Think You Can Do Social Media. Note From Beth: Since 2007, I've been using, adapting, and remixing the Social Media Game social media workshops for nonprofits. In fact, just last month, I took it to India. Kira Marchense is the Online communications director at Environmental Defense Fund. .

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My Flickr Score

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Next a final look at the final KM4DEV call for papers for June, 2007 Issue called " Stewarding Technologies for Collaboration, Community Building & Knowledge Sharing in Development" (I'm a guest editor along with Nancy White, Beverly Traynor, and Lucie Lamoureux - others to join.) Why bother? Good question.

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What are the most effective ways Nonprofits/Foundations can use Twitter #hashtags?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by Mansikka. According to the Twitter Fan Wiki , hashtags were popularized during the San Diego forest fires in 2007 when Nate Ritter used the hashtag "#sandiegofire" to identify his updates related to the disaster. What is a #HashTag? A hashtag is this symbol: #. That's, of course, if the tag used is unique enough.

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8 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs

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As part of my preparation, it seems like a good time to update my 2006 post, 10 Ways Nonprofits Can Us Blogs , and my 2007 post, 10 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause. Why not share their knowledge on your blog? Share who you really are (photos from the staff holiday party excluded).

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