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Beth’s Surprise Party: A Case Study in Crowdsourced Action

Amy Sample Ward

To recap: we took advantage of popular techniques for sharing and networking conversations including URL shorteners and hashtags. Some posted to community blogs like NetSquared. Tags: case studies fundraising beth kanter campaign case study online campaign sharing foundation. Some tweeted.

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Community-Driven Social Impact: Presentation, Case Studies, and Workshop

Amy Sample Ward

Often times the community’s ideas or needs are shared in ways that require translation, of sorts—someone that can bridge the community and organization, listening to the conversations and identifying the opportunities for the organization. Case Studies. Events: NetSquared Camps. What’s the foundation of CDSI?

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Building the Tech Capacity of Nonprofits Everywhere with TechSoup's NetSquared Events

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That's why TechSoup created NetSquared , our global network of volunteer-led Tech4Good meetups. We believe that NGOs learn best from each other, so NetSquared provides a platform where we can come together face to face to share technology tips and create a community of practice around tech for good. Upcoming Tech4Good Events.

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June #4Change Chat: Local Community Organizing

Amy Sample Ward

My work with NetSquared and with Social by Social has helped shape so many of my beliefs about community organizing and has offered the opportunity to meet so many others doing it well. If you want to take a peak at where we may go in the conversation, review the questions below. Conversations and Presentations. Feeling brave?

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Crowdsourcing: Community vs Crowd

Amy Sample Ward

We’ll be facilitating a conversation, more than doing a formal presentation, and will focus on the power of crowdsourcing (using our own case study from conducting the Social Media for Social Good case study competition) and the application of social media in nonprofit program delivery. What do you think?

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Great reads from around the web on June 15th

Amy Sample Ward

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of June 15th).

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Next #4Change Chat Topic: Volunteering

Amy Sample Ward

Join us for a global conversation, sharing ideas, best practice, links and resources. If you want to contribute to the conversation, you’ll need to have a Twitter account (it’s free). To follow the conversation (whether you are planning to contribute or not), use [link] or another application to search on Twitter for “#4Change”.

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