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How To: DIY Community & Content Mapping

Amy Sample Ward

Over the last few of years I’ve had a the opportunity to work with a team of intelligent and thoughtful colleagues, speak at conferences, and collaborate with other facilitators and community builders. During this time, I’ve help create community maps and strategic plans with my own team and with many other groups.

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DIY Community Engagement Metrics

Amy Sample Ward

I had a lot of fun yesterday giving a webinar for the Nonprofit Webinar series ; it was a whole hour discussing community engagement! DIY Community Engagement Metrics. Community Mapping. >> Step 1: Identify all the groups within your community. Well, from the planning and analysis side, that is. Presentation.

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Designing Programs to Build Community: Case Study with Charity Technology Trust

Amy Sample Ward

This afternoon I had the pleasure and honor of spending a few hours with members of the Charity Technology Trust/Charity Technology Exchange team, part of the TechSoup Global network , exploring their options for creating programs or services to build and foster community throughout their network. Who is the community?

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Using Twitter to Build a Community and Recruit Volunteers

Amy Sample Ward

Twitter at use for Tu Diabetes community. I’ve presented about Twitter before, as well, so in addition to sharing some notes and resources, and my slides, from the presentation on Friday, I want to also round up other Twitter-related posts and links here. How can nonprofits use Twitter? How to make quality content on Twitter.

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Nonprofit Webinars: DIY Community Engagement Metrics

Amy Sample Ward

Topic : Do-It-Yourself Community Metrics. Description : Social media, online campaigns, and community engagement can be tricky things to dive into and do well without measuring, monitoring and evaluating. Date : January 19th, 2010. Location : online with Nonprofit Webinars. But what to measure? How to evaluate? Slides and notes.

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Guest Post: My tips to Have Fun * Do Good

Amy Sample Ward

My friend and engaging community leader for all those looking to have fun while improving the world, Britt Bravo, is doing a little experiment and asking a handful of bloggers to write short guest posts about how they have fun and do good. Tags: otherblogs socialchange fun guest post howto. 2 Make it shareable.

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Great reads from around the web on June 11th

Amy Sample Ward

An open letter to companies planning online communities | Community Building – I love this "open letter" from Martin Reed at CommunitySpark – it touches on so many "cultural" and infrastructure needs that organizations should think about BEFORE creating an online community space.

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