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How Digital Democracy Empowers Marginalized Communities

Tech Soup

One finalist's pitch was: "We have buy-in from the community, we have rich networks on the ground, and we are building on pre-existing technologies." Empowering Marginalized Communities Using Technology. Dd's mission is "to empower marginalized communities to use technology to defend their rights."

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Netsquared Project: The Step Before Community

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Netsquared is new project in its embryonic stages from Compumentor, the folks who have brought excellent technology resources to the nonprofit field. is an invitation into the marvelous, messy world of the Internet as a participatory, interactive community: a community created by its users. What is it?

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Social Media for Good and Evil, Strong and Weak Ties, Online/Offline,and Orgs and Networks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Rather than comparing Woolworth sit-ins to the much-hyped Twitter Revolution, finding the latter coming up wanting, and stopping there, Gladwell might have given some space in the New Yorker to dig a little deeper to find examples of folks using technology to organize in intriguing, successful ways. The examples are there, too.

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Vote Now: Ten Sessions We Want to See at NTC

Care2

Voting for the 2012 NTC (Nonprofit Technology Conference) is now open and the competition is fierce. In this workshop, we'll focus on all aspects of designing high-value, engaging, and participatory content that creates a partnership with your fans. As usual the nonprofit community has pitched some incredibly useful sessions.

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[VIDEO] Power Of Community In Strategic Planning

Bloomerang

So then we’ll talk about what are some participatory planning methods. Are communication channels clear? So let folks know, this is the current structure, this is the current communication channels, and then we’ll check in with you to make sure it still works for you and adjust as we need. How do we do this well?

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With #IceBucketChallenge in the Rear View, Where Does Fundraising Go from Here?

Connection Cafe

According to Barbara Newhouse, in an interview with Beth Kanter , it takes a strong collaborative of partners and technology infrastructure to make a feat like this possible. Even an hour or two of downtime or crash in technology could have throttled or derailed the campaign. It is open, participatory, and peer-driven.