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New on SSIR: First and Foremost Know Your Community

Amy Sample Ward

If we truly are reproducing our offline social divides online, then it’s further proof that the central part of your social media strategy needs to be focused on your audience. You may hear about Facebook, but if your audience is on MySpace, it doesn’t matter how much time and energy you put in. Boyd explained to the crowd.

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What you need to know BEFORE you start a nonprofit

Get Fully Funded

Or is it for people who are not accepted by current shelters, such as mothers with teen boys? Or are you looking to open a shelter for teens who have left or been kicked out of their homes, a need totally different than the family shelters in your community. How will you evaluate your results and measure impact?

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4 bbcon Takeaways for Philanthropic Organizations to Power 2019 Planning

Connection Cafe

At bbcon 2018, Blackbaud announced the cloud solution for each of our main audiences, including the Cloud Solution for Companies and the Cloud Solution for Foundations. Know your audience . A tool that can help you evaluate the effectiveness of your program, it forces you to identify your desired outcomes.

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The Participatory Nonprofit?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" He describes what Ian observed what happened with his youth audience. According to recent study from Pew Internet and American Life project, more than one-half of teens have created media content and roughly one-third have shared ocntent. the ability to evaluate the reliability and credibility of different information.

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How Will Your Nonprofit Raise Money in 2012?

NTEN

They'll want to set the programmatic agenda, select the beneficiaries and target areas, communicate the organization's message, and, in real-time, evaluate feedback as it comes in. Simplistic appeals targeted at teens and college students don't. Notice something strange about those tasks?

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The 5 Levels of Chatbot Safety & Unregulated Autonomous School Buses 

Whole Whale

For the relationship level, AI chatbot provides greetings and routes teens to human counselors who then provide advice. Low risk of direct harm from minimal AI functions, but the risk of delay in connecting teen to human support if chatbot malfunctions. Empathy and expert evaluations. Evaluations detect biases and limitations.

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AAM Recap: Slides, Observations, and Object Fetishism

Museum 2.0

We started with a brief presentation of the basics of each project, and then spent about an hour responding to questions from the audience, using illustrative images and documents to support the discussion. conference audiences are ready to work (and play). This is a question I'm really interested in. Neither Click!

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