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What I Learned About Online Donor Engagement from Fundraisers in Brasil

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I also discussed the importance of laying out the supporter journey and having metrics to understand and improve conversion rates. Empowerment. By using their voices to support their organization’s mission, they boost trust and inspire meaningful conversation and debate. Transparency. Aspiration. Positive Impact.

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New on SSIR: Give Permission to Peer Influence

Amy Sample Ward

You can read the post and join the conversation on the SSIR blog here , or read the copied post below. As organizations or community builders active online, working to practice and create quality engagement, we are often trying to guide, collect or herd conversations and interactions into spaces that we have created or monitor closely.

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New on SSIR: Letting Technology Lead

Amy Sample Ward

My latest post for the Stanford Social Innovation Review is up and I hope you’ll dive into the conversation with me! Yes you can claim that anyone has the power to blog, but that’s really only the people who have access to the tools and the time and the empowerment. What it Means to Individuals.

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New on SSIR: Letting Technology Lead

Amy Sample Ward

My latest post for the Stanford Social Innovation Review is up and I hope you’ll dive into the conversation with me! Yes you can claim that anyone has the power to blog, but that’s really only the people who have access to the tools and the time and the empowerment. What it Means to Individuals.

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Twitter Community Organizing Rules for Non Profits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: I love when I discovered folks who are community organizers and successfully transfer what they know about community organizing offline to the online world. Just like any real world activist, motivation is triggered by empowerment and shut down with arrogance. As a community organizer, Twitter makes a lot of sense.

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Creating Learning Experiences That Connect, Inspire, and Engage

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This is important for both online and offline instructional delivery. Small groups can be conversations, peer assists or shares, or an exercise that can be done collaboratively or working alone together.

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On saints and advocates

Connection Cafe

He has argued that Mother Theresa was not primarily interested in eliminating poverty, which would have involved muscular advocacy for things like the empowerment of women. Whatever you might think of Hitchens though, one of his main criticisms raises an interesting point.