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Rule Your Market—Blue Ocean Strategy Sidesteps the Sharks

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The Ann Arbor, Michigan-based team was motivated by the desire to find solutions for struggling businesses like the Detroit automobile producers. Members are seeking usefulness at the right price tag. Actually, the process is based on three decades of research conducted by authors Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne.

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A Low Tech Version of Providing the Self-Organizing Platform for Movement Building

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We were are all leaving Detroit at different times and the taxi to the airport wasn't exactly cheap. Tags: movement building. Last week I was in Michigan to do a training for Chapter Leaders of EPIP. What do you need in your social media strategy to facilitate your supporters self-organizing around your goal?

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Instead of Selling Objects, Build Public Trust

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When museums start putting price tags on their objects, other institutions do too. When Detroit was going bankrupt in 2013, the city's emergency manager fought to sell off some of the prized artworks in the Detroit Institute of Art. And once that happens, all bets are off. But other battles have been--and could be--lost.

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Social Media in Crisis Communication: A Lesson Learned by Charlotte Meckelnburg Library

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She has been featured in the Detroit Free Press, on several local tv networks in Detroit, MI and Charlotte, NC and on Sirius/XM's 'Make It Plain w/ Mark Thompson'. Tags: NPTech NTEN Social Media Communications.

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Foundations That Tweet: Profile Patterns

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Share history ( Detroit Foundation ). Tags: policy twitter. I threw the urls into a google spreadsheet and started to browse the Twitter streams to get a better understanding of the content shared. (It It wasn't useless babble !). In an earlier post , I found the following types of patterns related to content shared on Twitter. .

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Can you use social media to spread thought leadership? Yes you can!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Share history ( Detroit Foundation ). Tags: scholar. A few days ago, I came across an interesting article about how to Tweet your corporate culture - and it struck me that the points might lead to a content strategy for tweeting thought leadership. Here are some example of tweeting thought leadership.

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Chase Community Giving Contest: The Organizations on the Leaderboard Go Up and Down

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For example, Friendship Circle, had a rallied at a Piston's Game in Detroit (see above video) and organized 3,000 teens to play freeze tag on Facebook to rally the vote. There is also the importance of offline/online connection that can't be ignored.

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