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

Amy Sample Ward

First, we created an open Google Doc where we put in the introduction language, so anyone that clicked through from someone’s blog or Twitter post would have context about what was happening (and included a numbered list up to 53, so people could easily see where to add their name and blog address). Some tweeted.

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Case Study: Tools for Community Engagement

NTEN

When it came to blogger outreach, a Google Doc was the preferred and successful tool. They did not have a preference in mind for the redesign when it came to the programming language, just a clear understanding of what they wanted supporters to be able to do. That directed the build. Information for bloggers.

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Case Study: Use Google's Free Tools to Animate Your Data

NTEN

It's relatively easy for nonprofits to create these charts: Just upload your own data into Google Docs – the data can be on any topic of interest to your organization – build your animation, then grab the code to put on your site/blog. Andy manages the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health's data and information offerings.

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New Book: How To Implement Multichannel Online Campaigns

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It takes you through the technologies and tools for each channel for different goals and offers up lots of case studies from organizations such as National Wildlife Federation, Red Cross, AARP, Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, American Museum of Natural History, SEIU and others. Develop shared language. Click to see larger version.

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Integration of CRM and CMS

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Sorry, Lobo, with all due respect to you and CiviCRM, a PHP API accessible only to other PHP apps on the same machine is simply not sufficient integration in an age of web services, where people run different apps on different machines and use languages other than PHP for building web apps. I know we have disagreed about this in the past.