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Offline-to-Online-to-Offline: Lessons Learned in Building a Custom Community Platform

Care2

The ambition of the online organizing platform never matched the success of the offline organizing community and strategy. The goal was to create a unified online community for the climate movement to reflect and spur more of the movement’s offline collaboration. After 12 months, it folded. What happened?

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Dancefloor and Balcony: What I learned about emergent online collaboration from Eugene Eric Kim

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Eugene Eric Kim is an expert in online culture and collaboration, particularly with new tools. The intent of the exercise (besides getting us to move around) was to help reflect and learn about self-organizing group collaboration. The instructions for the exercise are: Get in a circle. That's the vision for his company and work.

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Four More Community Members Join the NTEN Board

NTEN

So, instead of a multi-year strategic plan that tries to foretell the future, NTEN uses the Real-Time Strategic Plan model, which focuses on clarifying what we do, how we do it, and what is most important to us in making decisions. I’m honored to collaborate with a wonderful team of board members to serve NTEN and its community.

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Launching a Collaboration or Content Management System: 8 Tricks for Adoption

Forum One

So, you have decided you need a tool for collaboration or content management. Below I discuss some adoption strategies that you should consider if you plan to launch a collaborative platform or content management system. Every collaboration or content management site needs one. Model Wanted Behavior. Even better.

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A Journey to India: Opportunities to Connect Networks

Amy Sample Ward

Part of my role as the Global Community Development Manager at NetSquared is to support and grow our offline organizers from around the world. This offline network, called Net Tuesdays, balances the work we do online to connect all those working at the intersection of technology and social impact.

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Open Challenges Harness Local Knowledge for Local Change

Tech Soup

Since the first NetSquared challenge in 2006, TechSoup has continued to offer people and organizations opportunities to connect, share ideas, and collaborate; they work on solutions online and offline through events, meetups, and hackathons. It motivates and engages citizens across central and eastern Europe, the Balkans, and Turkey.

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A Free Agent for Hunger: Pittsburgh Tote Bag Project

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Those that have opened themselves up to using these tools and connecting with passionate people in their networks find abundance. Here’s one story about how one free agent, a social media savvy volunteer for a local food bank, saw a problem, reached out to her network, and helped solved in collaboration with the local nonprofit.

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