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Case Study: How Human Rights Watch Leverages Employee Personal Brands on Twitter

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In 2009, they embraced Twitter because journalists were active on Twitter and it was an efficient way to reach them. Says Jim Murphy, “In the early days of Twitter, our Executive Director, Ken Roth , was an early adopter is still active on Twitter.

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Philanthropic Leadership: Engaging Board Members As Fundraising Ambassadors

Bloomerang

Elizabeth Abel will explore the role of the board in elevating fundraising activity and discuss effective strategies to recruit, engage, and deploy diverse board members as fundraising ambassadors. Second is to develop some action-oriented strategies to recruit and retain and engage diverse board members in fundraising activity broadly.

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The Jing Project: Embed Screencasts Into Conversation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Some possible uses: I put this out on the SalesForce Nonprofit Practitioners listserv. I'm working on a screencast and it might be excellent way to do research or share implicit geek shoudlder-to-shoulder knowledge across the Internet. At the end of the grant period, we tally the votes and distribute the money to the winner.

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From Community Arts To Community of Online Learners: Janet Salmons, Ph.D

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Ever since, our paths have crossed several times in nonprofit technology circles online, most recently via the Digital Divide Network listserv and the online forums at TechSoup. I figured out that I could offer teaching, training, consulting activities online. Earlier this month, Janet sent me a note that she had completed her Ph.D.

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Groundswell Book Club Part 4: Customer Support

Museum 2.0

This spectator effect means that the online forums don’t just provide direct support—they create growing bodies of knowledge about products. You need lots of active users to make a support forum work. Reputation indices reward good behavior and cultivate active participation. Let's look at each in greater detail.

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Wikis: What, When, Why

Museum 2.0

While there are some criticisms of its consensus-based model for information-vetting, there's no doubt of its success as a collaborative knowledge-creation project. Woody launched it with an email to the ASTC listserv--a good group to target for his content. Wikipedia, like YouTube and Facebook, is a giant in the world of Web 2.0.

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