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Social Media for Nonprofits Launches Its Second Series of Global Conferences

Tech Soup

Facebook now boasts over 901 million active users, making it, by population, the world’s third largest country. Washington, DC – October TBA. This post is by guest blogger Ritu Sharma, who is the executive director of Social Media for Nonprofits. Silicon Valley, CA – July 26. Los Angeles, CA – August 14.

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Creating a Killer Facebook Presence

Tech Soup

Profiles: Many smaller nonprofits have yet to make the jump from a Facebook profile, personally managed by their founders or executive directors, to an organizational page. This jump is crucial since Facebook can shut down profiles used for organizational purposes , plus profiles are capped at 5,000 friends.

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Think Global, Act Local

Connection Cafe

Just as with national advocacy, that local policy campaign will need some online/offline synergy to succeed. US Representatives spend most of their time thousands of miles away from their constituents in Washington, DC and have a long line of lobbyists and constituents jockeying for their time.

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Reporting Social To Stakeholders

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

She agreed to write this post about what she learned from a panel presentation she and other nonprofit social media professionals gave at the Social Media Week in DC – several of whom have presented or participated at one of the Packard Foundation OE Program Peer Learning Exchanges I facilitated. Influence the decision makers.

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Taking Baby Steps to Social Media Maturity with Your Peers

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Through monthly phone calls and a closed Facebook discussion group, I tested (“try to vary the type content each day of the week”). In October, Facebook introduced new features on the analytics pages. What’s Next: 2012 Social Media Week DC. Next week, I’m moderating a panel for the first-ever Social Media Week in DC.

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Entrepreneurship and Internet Diplomacy in the Muslim and Arab World

Forum One

One year later, April 26-27, 2010, more than 260 people from over 60 countries gathered in Washington, DC for an unprecedented two-day Entrepreneurship Summit hosted by President Obama and the U.S. The event’s goal was to show how diplomacy and non-traditional diplomacy are used to strengthen global relations, focusing on business.

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Cause Camp 2017 Speaker Lineup Announcement

NonProfit Hub

Through this research, as well as in his role at Achieve, Derrick has worked with companies and organizations such as AT&T, Facebook, BMW, PBS and the Case Foundation to understand how the next generation of donors, activists and employees are redefining cause work. Derrick Feldmann. Achieve Agency. Kivi Leroux Miller.

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