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Groups: A Review of Five Platforms to Build Community

Care2

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. The most successful groups on Facebook are those whose members are passionate about the group’s focus and goals. Can building a Facebook Group impact advocacy?

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Are Memes Really Just Slacktivism?

Care2

It’s a vanity metric – not a metric that is connected to furthering your advocacy goals. Online Advocacy Online Fundraising Online Marketing' .” Just because a breast cancer organization like Komen received over 100K “likes” in 24 hours does not mean they leveraged this meme in a meaningful way.

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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 addition, they have an internal listserv for support where staff share suggested tweets for new reports or new features or techniques on Twitter. Twitter is also used as a complementary advocacy strategy when reaching out to policymakers on a human rights issue. pic.twitter.com/s4COgBXzcK.

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Guest Post by Allyson Kapin: Top 8 Social Media Tracking Tools

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You can even list a signature goal and download signatures. Listservs: Participate in listservs that align with your nonprofit’s mission and where your organizations’ issues are being discussed. Allyson Kapin is the editor of Frogloop , Care2's blog for nonprofit professionals in online marketing, fundraising and advocacy.

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Social Networks for Social Change: Ivan Boothe Knows What He Is Talking About!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

tags: fundraising advocacy ) I was lucky enough to meet Ivan Boothe at the first (or maybe second) Netsquared Conference back in 2005 and have been following his work for years. So he cautioned me that some of the information might not be entirely up to date that he shared on listserv including a pointer to his awesome slide show with audio.

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NTEN Member Buzz Round-Up: This Week in NPTech

NTEN

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. She covers initial goals, leadership buy-in, staff time, and next steps. I'm also picking up on the buzz I hear on listservs, Twitter, and directly from you!

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An Interview with Jo Lee of CitizenSpeak

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

CitizenSpeak is a free email advocacy service for grassroots organizations. Inspired by MoveOn email campaigns, CitizenSpeak provides the same e-advocacy capability at the community level. I posted a message on a CivicSpace listserv about my plans to make CitizenSpeak into an open source module on Drupal.