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Case Study: Tools for Community Engagement

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The 2011 TMWL activity on Twitter was driven primarily by people very close to the campaign, whereas the first Tweetsgiving was driven by people Stacey didn't know yet or hadn't invested time cultivating relationships with. According to the Twibbon profile for TMWL, 667 users added the badge to their pictures. Information for bloggers.

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How Can Volunteer Coordinators Help Their Organizations Become Networked Nonprofits?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Many of this latter group of are veterans of what Extraordinaries’ Jacob Colker calls the “Command & Control Model” – programs that seek to control the relationship of the volunteer with the organization and/or cause. Training could also be done virtually with videos or through shared docs on a wiki. Recruitment is just the start.

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2014 NTC Report: The Wins, The Fails, The Ideas for 2015

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Despite some of the restrictions of the Science Fair reported, when asked about your favorite moments of the conference, here were just two replies of several: As always, the Science Fair is tremendously helpful for our organization to hear ideas and start forging/reinforcing relationships. Talk about generosity.

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