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Online communities 101: The benefits of leveraging an online community platform

Nimble AMS

According to the latest Community Brands research, 52% of association professionals use an online member community but only 14% rate their use of the platform as excellent. Some examples of online communities include a LinkedIn or Facebook group where industry professionals connect. Boost engagement Want to increase member engagement?

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NpTech Tag Summary: Scarcity Thinking, Social Network Fragmentation?, and Engagement Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

When I saw the title of this post, " I'm Engaged ," I thought he was talking about the report that The Network Centric Advocacy Blog mentions as a must-read for advocacy and communication staff called Activation Point. Social Network Fragmentation. Social network fragmentation? Social networking burnout?

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How the American Childhood Cancer Organization Used Crowdfunding to Raise Over $43,000!

Tech Soup

“We went live with Shopify towards the end of April 2013, and in that time we’ve seen a 75% increase in sales from the previous year, mainly due to the professional look of the store and the ease of the process. Launch a custom campaign through your social network. ” What about your Shopify experience?

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How Can Volunteer Coordinators Help Their Organizations Become Networked Nonprofits?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There’s no doubt that social networks are allowing organizations to connect with and recruit non-traditional volunteers in new ways. In a networked nonprofit, VCs might mine their personal and professional networks for ideation, best practices, and case studies to learn how organizations are engaging volunteers effectively.

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NTC Community Call Recap

NTEN

They will be social networking sessions with like-minded people, with no formal agenda or takeaways. New to the NTC Ideas Partner new attendees with veteran attendees Should we identify new attendees on their name badges? Birds of a Feather sessions are taking the place of our old Affinity Group sessions.

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2018 eLearning Predictions: Updated Hype Curve

Forj

As always, we try to use this blog post to speak from our experience as a learning technology partner to organizations that provide continuing education and professional development. There are other projects underway to solve it, including the MedBiquitous Activity Report standard and (in a sense) the Mozilla Open Badges project.

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Latest Facebook Changes a Mixed Bag for Nonprofit Page Admins

Forum One

I finally watched the Oscar-nominated film “The Social Network” this past weekend. Receive badge notifications. Professional Profiles: Facebook’s design now looks awfully similar to a Personal Profile. It was an entertaining movie, but it definitely took real events and twisted them for dramatic effect.