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Great reads from around the web on September 13th

Amy Sample Ward

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of September 13th).

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Vote and Comment for ALL these Awesome Nonprofit Panels at SXSW

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And, if you submitted a nonprofit panel - and I managed to miss it while scanning 1200 in ten minutes - please add the link and description in a comment. We will talk about the challenges, best methods, & incentives for creating your own superhero extension! Please try to vote for as many nonprofit panels. To vote: 1.

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Building Community: Who / How / Why

Museum 2.0

HOW (slides 24-42) There are three “tracks” to our theory of change: individual empowerment, social bonding, and social bridging. Let’s start with empowerment. This starts right when you walk into our museum, where you can share opinions about how to improve the institution on a comment wall. Showing that their voice matters.

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The Dragonfly Effect: Win A Copy, Leave A Comment, Swab Your Cheek

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This class focused the question “How to leverage the power of new social technology to effectively create real social good.&# The theoretical framework that became the book is, “ Dragonfly Effect: Mindset and Method &# was geared towards helping students create a project with a clear single, focused goal to cultivate social good.

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5 Questions for Geoff Livingston | Nonprofit Trends with Steve.

sgEngage

It gets into some real finite looks at strategy, too, and types of approaches that work, including participation, serving great content, top down influencer approaches and empowerment techniques like crowdsourcing. Creativity and innovation demands unique twists and turns and methods. The big nonprofits have come to play.

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