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Community Building begins with Community Organizing

Amy Sample Ward

If you know your followers are into LBS, then be in that community and reward their activity in unique ways, such as check in 3 times and get an unique BK Art Star Badge. You can model behavior all you want but if no one can tell what tools you are using to be so successful, there’s no way they can jump in and help man the ship.

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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. Opportunity Design is the process of understanding the required skills and experience for a given volunteer role.

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10 Types of eLearning Assessments for Your Courses

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For example, you could use a: Labeling assessment to test a learner’s ability to fill out a complicated form that’s integral to their role. Gamification can be incorporated into assessments in a variety of ways, such as by awarding points for the number of questions answered correctly or providing badges to the highest scorers.

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Use New-Hire Employee Badges

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Sunday, August 29, 2010 Use New-Hire Employee Badges If you lead an organization that uses employee ID badges, considering using a different color or a special designation on the badges for newly hired employees for at least their first 30 days and ideally up to 60 days. Some people call this a "hello" culture.

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The Networked NGO in Pakistan

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What I loved about this exercise, is that after Stephanie and I modeled taking photographs and sharing on our Facebook Group or Twitter, participants started to also document digitally. Participants made name badges using selecting tool names for their first and last name. We were able to thoroughly document the exercise here.

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Birthday Campaign Reflection: Will Your Nonprofit Embrace Free Agent Fundraisers?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've also summarized the story of a how one social media guru, David Armano, leveraged his large network to help a family a need and has stepped into the role of donor steward and even service delivery. I wonder what this says about the role of nonprofits and charities in an age of social networks? They did and I was ready. .

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Another Gold Star, FTW: A Look at Achievement Systems

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Like the Xbox Live achievement system, when you accomplish certain goals like your first checkin you get the “Newbie” badge. After you check in at 10 different locations you earn the “Adventurer” badge. After you check in at 10 different locations you earn the “Adventurer” badge.

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