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Connect in Person at #NCVS

Amy Sample Ward

This session focuses on strategies and case studies for creating successful community-driven media, events and campaigns. Also, engage in a mixed reality event as avatars and representatives from nonprofits around the world discuss their work both virtually and in their communities. Amy Sample Ward from NetSquared. Room: 1471.

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Social Media Roadblock: An Interview with Wendy Harman, Red Cross - Social Media Strategy Case Study

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We also encouraged people to change their avatars (see above). I'd try to figure out how in the world to measure how many people changed their avatars. The Social Media Roadblock. I would have maybe spent more time asking people to share the info on Facebook. I would have started a hashtag for Twitter. I have no idea!

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Can Social Media Create and Spread Revolution?

Care2

“It's actually been interesting to watch as a case study in the enduring power of traditional media. Similar discussions surfaced last year during Iran’s Green Revolution, when many people on social media overlaid a green shade to their avatars and profile pictures to show their solidarity with the people of Iran.

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HealthCare.gov: A Model Facebook Page

Forum One

The new HealthCare.gov Facebook Page borrows design and functional cues from its well-received web site, and, in most respects, represents an exemplary case study of a Facebook Page done right. Given that over 100 million Americans have Facebook accounts and half of those log in daily, this is a smart move. The Page includes six tabs.

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Your Tweet Can Leverage A 10 Cent Donation to Care March 2-5th

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

See this white paper by Susan Mernit for a detailed case study.). Twitter users may donate their avatar and replace it with an image of the red female sign. for clean drinking water in developing countries. The event attracted a lot of attention because it was an example of integrating a live charity event with Twitter. (See

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Leah Jones Is Taking A 3-Day Journey To Fight Breast Cancer and Social Actions Can Help You Find Other Related Campaigns

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

She announced on her blog, " I use Twitter to fight Cancer " and without any formal blogger relations campaign, well-known and influential bloggers blogged about her situation and changed their avatars to include peas. I pointed her to my personal fundraising case study ).

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Book Review: The Future of Nonprofits

Tech Soup

Remember, I have not simply had beers with these guys, I've flown around Second Life with their avatars and had virtual beers with them. And those kind of rewards are what make us continue to look for new models and reinvent our work.

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