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Think Global, Act Local

Connection Cafe

Two recent advocacy victories this week by PETA and my former colleagues at Defenders of Wildlife are a great reminder of a little practiced truth: organizations are seeing greater (and often easier) success in leveraging online advocacy to change policy at the state and local level.

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Social Media for Nonprofits Launches Its Second Series of Global Conferences

Tech Soup

But how exactly can nonprofits use it and other platforms to raise money, grow their base of supporters, change policy, and recruit volunteers and board members? Washington, DC – October TBA. Facebook now boasts over 901 million active users, making it, by population, the world’s third largest country.

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Military Communications in the Age of Social Media

Forum One

Earlier this week, I addressed the topic of social media in the military and government on a panel at The Army and The Navy Club in Washington, DC. From Twitter to Facebook the exponential increase in social network messaging at the expense of more established communications mediums (mail, email, etc.) technologies.

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Gobs and Gobs of Data: Strategies for Visualizing and Sharing Policy Content

NTEN

Policy-oriented organizations have long produced dizzying amounts of statistical content. In the past, rows and rows of data would die a quick death in thick policy reports or inscrutable spreadsheets. Smart organizations create and publish their data widely to other sites, widgets, social networks, and aggregation applications.

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Join WVU for Integrated Marketing Degree Information Session - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Here are the details: Where: National Press Club (Holeman Lounge) When: Thursday, Feb.

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Online Strategies for Open-Government / Ideas from the Obama Team

Forum One

government CTO, spoke about how DC has created more than 200 data feeds on D.C. Bringing democracy and policy deliberations directly to the people by requiring his Cabinet officials to have periodic national online town hall meetings to answer questions and discuss issues before their agencies. city issues and indicators.

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How Sticky is Facebook? - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Do you think Facebook is sticky? How’s it working for your nonprofit?