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Google + for Social Change Activists: Dive in Early or Wait?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Organizations can get comfortable with implementing one channel and expand to other channels as part of their maturity of practice model. Capacity building that takes an incremental approach and is a balance of strategy and action leads to capacity building that sticks. During the Webinar, I polled the group’s general approach.

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Open Challenges Harness Local Knowledge for Local Change

Tech Soup

Since the first NetSquared challenge in 2006, TechSoup has continued to offer people and organizations opportunities to connect, share ideas, and collaborate; they work on solutions online and offline through events, meetups, and hackathons. It motivates and engages citizens across central and eastern Europe, the Balkans, and Turkey.

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Turning City Data into Apps with Apps4Warsaw

Tech Soup

" Apps4Warsaw also teamed up with Orange Labs, the research and development arm of multinational telecommunications giant Orange , to build a platform and publish the 50 datasets. The platform was installed on the Warsaw City Council servers. The team wanted to create a platform for both mainstream and alternative events.

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Socially Responsible Schwag As Metaphor for SoCap09

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Ben Rattray mentioned: The vast majority of social good platforms have failed because they have modeled social good platforms on commercial applications. We assumed that if we created a generic platform that people would start their own actions. The vision is to provide a platform for collective social action.

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Vote and Comment for ALL these Awesome Nonprofit Panels at SXSW!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. Community Funded Reporting : The news industry is dying but in its wake are new business models to support investigative journalism. Twitterstorm, anyone? What is it?

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Last Chance to Vote for Nonprofit SXSW Panels: Closes September 4th

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. Community Funded Reporting : The news industry is dying but in its wake are new business models to support investigative journalism. Mobile Platform Battle Royale.

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Libraries: The Oldest New Frontier for Innovation

Amy Sample Ward

There are a few core elements of the way communities work that we can learn from as a model for innovation as well. Leadership and decision-making come from adoption not from executive authority. Adoption is something we’ll come back to later as well. Community-Driven Model. Communities are flexible. Principles.

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