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Groups: A Review of Five Platforms to Build Community

Care2

If your organization is focused on building community among your activists and donors you’ve probably had to choose an online group tool. Which tool is best for your group will depend on your goals, your members level of engagement, and the group’s comfort level with social technologies. It could get unwieldy quickly.

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NTEN Member Buzz Round-Up: This Week in NPTech

NTEN

Lovette Ajayi discusses Facebook's "Kindergarten" year and the recent Terms of Service uproar in a post on the Community Media Workshop 's blog. Case Foundation highlights advocacy mashups , and we're glad to see NTEN members Peter Deitz , Care2 , GlobalGiving , and MAPLight.org received some well-deserved props.

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An Interview with Jo Lee of CitizenSpeak

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

an amazing woman (and mother of two) who works in the nonprofit technology space - for all her work managing the project and making it a huge success. CitizenSpeak is a free email advocacy service for grassroots organizations. I owe the CivicSpace community for this fortuitous virtual meeting. Tell me a little about you!

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Philanthropic Leadership: Engaging Board Members As Fundraising Ambassadors

Bloomerang

I’ve managed campaigns ranging from about $5 million to over a billion dollars in health care, education, arts and culture, and advocacy sectors. And what we’re seeing is that while this is encouraging, the numbers are going up, nonprofit boards are still far from representing the communities that they serve.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Five Hot Conversations!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

GetActive GetsAcquired - By Convio This is big news and it bounced around the nonprofit and progressive blogs, listservs, IM, and emails. Allison Fine points out some outrageous behavior by the Gates Foundation and asks "What does it take for the foundation and nonprofit community to finally take a stand on appalling behavior like this?"

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NpTech Tag: Change.org To Launch White-Label Social Network for Nonprofits, GeekToys that Give Geekbumps, and Blog Readability

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Also, building your own social network and growing and supporting a community takes work and relationship building to be successful-- whether you to do it on Facebook or your own site. Social Change Websites is an excellent directory of the best nonprofit, grassroots, and advocacy campaign websites devoted to social change.

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Book Club Part 2: Timeliness

Museum 2.0

There are also other museums, such as the Monterey Bay Aquarium and Holocaust Museum discussed yesterday , that incorporate ongoing advocacy for content-related issues (conservation and genocide prevention, respectively) into their exhibits and programs, connecting the timeless to the right now. Sound familiar?

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