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NetSquared White Paper: Building Community To Foster Social Innovation

Amy Sample Ward

Whether it’s small communities coming together offline to train and share knowledge about using technology or it’s innovation projects competing in the same contest working together instead – we hope you’ll find this short paper compelling and share it with your networks. You can download the paper directly here.

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Technology for Change Contest: Win a new computer from HP!

Amy Sample Ward

This year, the Tweetsgiving campaign also asked people to gather in person, offline and have gratitude parties, where people could also donate in person to the project. Tags: challenge events case studies competition computer contest giveaway social change technology.

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June #4Change Chat: Local Community Organizing

Amy Sample Ward

I’ve had experience organizing communities offline in local communities, and organizing community online – but the kind of organizing that inspires me the most is combining online and offline. What are your favorite examples or case studies where this is really working?

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How KaBOOM! Is Using a Networked Approach To Scale Social Change

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Case Study. I invited Heather McLeod Grant to write a reflection base the case study of KaBOOM! Just last week we published a new case study of KaBOOM! is developing systems to recognize and reward those who are having the most impact both online and offline. Monitor Institute: KaBOOM!

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New on SSIR: Global Tools for Going Local

Amy Sample Ward

The power of using social media in a local context focuses most directly on just those things that make “local&# different: being “here,&# connecting online and offline, taking action collectively and delivering services. I think there’s a lot of potential for hyper local search and the power that comes with geo-tags/data.

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Five Steps to Finding ROI

Amy Sample Ward

combines both online and offline measurement and values so can help you more thoroughly evaluate both the strategy and how to address the original problem. Remember, your strategies should be integrated online and offline, and so should your metrics.

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Join the monthly Community Building chats!

Amy Sample Ward

I’m really interested in what happens next, and not just because I am part of the team but also because I think we can be a case study in ourselves of the changing landscape and processes of online collaboration. Tags: community events 4change chats community buidling community management twitter chats. Let me know.

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