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

Amy Sample Ward

Here are some reflections about how we used crowdsourcing techniques for a very fast-moving campaign and lessons learned that may apply to your work. To recap: we took advantage of popular techniques for sharing and networking conversations including URL shorteners and hashtags.

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Living Case Studies: Integrated Social Media Strategy for Sustainable Agriculture

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Living Case Studies: Social Media and Sustainable Agriculture. Spectragram is a facilitation technique I learned from Allen Gunner at Aspiration. Living Case Study. View more presentations from Beth Kanter. Spectragram. You have people line up in the room based on whether they agree or disagree with a statement.

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Conversational Case Study: Myth or Fact - Can Small Nonprofits Win with Social Media?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This year, we are experimenting with incorporating social media techniques as part of the evaluation process for the second America’s Giving Challenge. A conversational case study is a write up our interviews identifying a few questions we still have. What techniques are you using? Does it work?

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Your Best “No BS” Nonprofit Resources

Pamela Grow

As an email subscriber, each week you’ll get a new “micro” essay about 1 principle or technique. SOFII is where you’ll find the brilliant Huntsinger tutorials , the inspirational Merchants Quay case study , and scads of examples. I implemented just one of Eddie’s suggestions and saw engagement soar!

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What can nonprofit technology trainers learn from the social work field to improve their training techniques?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here’s a few frameworks and techniques I learned first hand from Nancy as she accompanied me to the sessions I was leading. It is about simply learning how to use a new tool or technique. I was even lucky enough to coax Nancy into an impromptu role play to model some of the techniques. She was brilliant!

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Case Study: Tools for Community Engagement

NTEN

Every campaign, every organization, and really, even every individual engaging with others online has a set of tools and techniques they've learned from and rely on every day. This overview is part of a larger case study on Epic Change's last campaign that we'll post later this summer. Epic Change is no different.

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Reflections on Twitter Chat Facilitation Techniques

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Q3: What are some of the best case studies of NPO’s using Social and what was the impact? What are your best Twitter moderation techniques? (Backstory: we know they have time and need money / sometimes volunteers. Can social help this & how?). Q2: What is the easiest way for an NPO to figure out how to do social?