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January 2011 Community Builder Chat Archive #CommBuild

Amy Sample Ward

The conversation in this month’s chat focused on these questions: What are the best mechanisms for connecting online & offline communities? our community has a handful of active posters creating most of the content – how do we encourage quieter members to contribute? from @ BonnieKoenig. from @ehon. from @anotheremma.

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Project AWARE Dives Deep Into Ocean Data, Turning Scuba Divers into Citizen Scientists

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So in 2011, the organization adopted an online movement-building model that they hoped would more effectively engage its community of half-a-million divers. Also launched in 2011, the Dive Against Debris program asks dive shop operators and individual divers to become citizen scientists. million divers.

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New on SSIR: Can Giving Days Strengthen Your Community?

Amy Sample Ward

—– In 2011, Washington, DC, became one of the first major metropolitan regions to host a multimillion-dollar local giving day: Give to the Max Day: Greater Washington. Nearly 18,000 people participated in the 24-hour, online fundraising event, raising more than $2 million to benefit 1,200 local nonprofits.

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Great reads from around the web on May 3rd

Amy Sample Ward

Keep doing the offline stuff for the offline people! ’ In other words, if a large number of people in an area haven’t the access or the skills to use the internet – what are local public services doing to get this fixed?" ' There are two responses I usually give here. What do you think?

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2011: New Year, New Congress

Connection Cafe

2011 - it's a new year and a new Congress! Online advocacy doesn't work in a vacuum - it works best when it's part of a thoughtful integrated campaign that combines offline and online actions. DO go local. 2011 holds many opportunities for advocates in what is sure to be an exciting Congressional session. Happy 2011.

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Great reads from around the web on April 23rd

Amy Sample Ward

The tool is meant to openly share and visualize the operations of World Bank financed activities down to as local a level as possible and compare these with actual need and monitor the effects over time." " 2011: The Year the Check-in Died – "Early last year, "checking in" was the cool new craze.

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2011 NTC Preview: Can Social Networks Create Social Capital?

NTEN

Staff led on-the-ground efforts in just a handful of key cities, while the majority of actions were organized online and offline by activists and other citizens -– volunteers, by and large. Discussions about green jobs and green economy policies occurred from local to national levels. In fact, the bar for activism is higher.