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Community Building begins with Community Organizing

Amy Sample Ward

We focused on principles for community building and community organizing, as well as examples of both short-term and long-term engagement. Here are the slides! There are many proven practices and strategies for engaging with communities and building up participation, whether around an event, a campaign, or a cause. Transparency.

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Using Twitter to Build a Community and Recruit Volunteers

Amy Sample Ward

I’ve presented about Twitter before, as well, so in addition to sharing some notes and resources, and my slides, from the presentation on Friday, I want to also round up other Twitter-related posts and links here. Presentation Slides. Here are my slides from the VMNC: Twitter Basics for Engaging Volunteers.

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Building Blocks of Social Media - Webinar slides and notes

Amy Sample Ward

Today’s webinar focused on the building blocks of social meda; things like tagging, RSS and how to get started finding the conversations taking place online. Here’s my slide deck: Social Media Building Blocks. You can see screen shots of both of these in the slide show above. tags: nonprofit nptech ).

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[WEBINAR] From Stranger To Donor In One Day: A 6-Step Process To Build Relationships With New People, Fast

CauseVox

When it comes to building relationships with donors, we assume that it will take weeks or months of relationship-building before they’ll be willing to respond to our donation appeal. In other words, the question isn’t, “How long does it take to build relationships with new people to lead them to become supporters of this mission?”

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Building Stronger Online Communities Without Losing Your Sanity

Amy Sample Ward

One of the sessions I’m a part of , along with Manny Hernandez, Peggy Duvette, and Christine Egger, hopes to answer the question how you can build strong online communities without losing your sanity. If you want to build a strong online community, getting the right platform in place is only half the battle, and it’s the easy half.

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2012 Women Who Tech Telesummit – Using Technology and Social Media to Build Social Justice Movements

Amy Sample Ward

We’ll explore what it takes to build a powerful movement online filled with passionate people and matched with the right technology and tools to connect and engage our activists and donors across multiple online channels. Session slides. Then this panel is for you. Related Links : WWT Information. Session recordings.

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Can You Measure the Impact of Capacity Building for Nonprofits?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Capacity building is about improving organizational (or network) effectiveness. Capacity building includes both money (grants), consultants/technical assistance, peer learning/communities of practice, and collaboration. They also facilitated discussion with others funders that invest in capacity building. Presentation slides.

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