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New on SSIR: Should Nonprofits Act Like Businesses or People?

Amy Sample Ward

The new book I co-authored with Allyson Kapin, Social Change Anytime Everywhere , looks at the way nonprofit organizations can use multichannel strategies for advocacy, fundraising, and community building. Imagine that you are you, enjoying some personal, non-professional time, then go online. What do you do? Which tools do you use?

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You Can Stand Up for Health Care on Twitter and Facebook, What About On Google +?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They are integrating social media tactics to their online advocacy tool box with this Twitter tool. Back in June, I wrote a post about the “ Valid Metrics Grid &# developed by measurement professionals to launch the debate about standardization of social media metrics. The above grid is a very much simplified version.

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Donor Segmentation: The Ultimate Guide for Nonprofits

DNL OmniMedia

Ask any modern fundraising or marketing professional about the best tactics to secure donations, volunteer hours, or other support, and there’s a decent chance donor segmentation will be mentioned in the lineup. Consider segmenting by interests, such as: Advocacy opportunities. Are you ready to glean new insights from your donor data?

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NpTech Tag Summary: NpTech Slide Decks, Twitter Saves Children, and Visualizing Information for Advocacy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One of the above is the actual cover of " Visualizing Information for Advocacy " - a must read booklet from Tactical Technology Collective. The Chronicle sets up a twitter account to broadcast links to blog posts. This is useful if you want both broadcast AND use your laptop to take notes (or answer email).

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Online Video: An Interview Revealing Best Practices and Trends - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) The future is live.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There are over 200,000 professional artists in the US — and a bunch of them have problems the techies could help solve. Putting the Public Back in Public Media Think NPR and PBS are just broadcasters? What should we be building to help artists make and sell art, engage their audiences, and connect to other artists? Think again.

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CongressCamp: Where the Hill Meets Web 2.0

Forum One

The event attracted a breadth of experience, including congressional staffers, public policy specialists, advocacy practitioners, software vendors, and professional service providers. technologies to broadcast their message and respond to negative PR. This suboptimal use of social media and Web 2.0

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