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Case Foundation Launches Change Begins With Me Contest: Winner Attends 2009 Presidential Inauguratio

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've had time offline, with family, and just relaxing. I've been thinking a lot of those, mostly internal - personal improvement and professional goals for my work, blog, and professional learning. The Case Foundation has just launched the " Change Begins With Me " contest. Need some motivation?

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New on SSIR: Can Giving Days Strengthen Your Community?

Amy Sample Ward

In the report “ How Giving Contests Can Strengthen Nonprofits and Communities ,” sponsored by the Case Foundation and released today, Geoff Livingston analyzes the impact of Give to the Max Day: Greater Washington and the repercussions for other regions and nonprofit communities.

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GiveMN 2012 Giving Day by the Numbers

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This 6-page guide laid out specific steps for using Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, as well as advice for connecting offline events and media opportunities offered during Give to the Max Day. Internal social media coordination, organization and planning. As in previous years, we assembled a “ social media planning guide.”

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Online Community Manager Open Forum

Tech Soup

Crowdsource content and give your members a reason to show off to one another by creating contests. Target outreach when building international communities: Target invites to potential members by language or location. How can an online community be moved offline? What strategies can help revive a declining community?

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Live Blogging: 09NTC Mapping Your Social Media Strategy

Amy Sample Ward

engage internally. Examples: Yammer for internal sharing, it’s a Twitter for groups. Are there ways of catching offline datapoints? but didn’t stop doing photo contests; instead they adapted. HSUS - integrated it with everything else, email campaigns/newsletters, offline, etc. use monitoring tools.

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And the Winner is. Jaffe's Join the Conversation Book Giveaway and How To Do A Giveaway Contest on Your Blog

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It thought it might do some good in another part of the world rather than collecting dust on my bookshelf -- I've internalized my learning from the book. He attended the Cambodian Blogging Summit and received the digital audio recorder to create language lessons for his students (offline podcasts!) (The It's a first edition!

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Reflections from Stanford Nonprofit Management Institute: New Skills for a Complex World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

[Resources “>here ] My training craft and what I have been teaching in train the trainer’s sessions around the world – how you blend content with engagement, both online and offline. I was challenged when I walked into the room and saw a podium, two large screens, and microphones set up in the middle of a sea of tables.

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