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Cut Through the Clutter: Why Storytelling Matters for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Michelle Chen , an independent scholar who recently graduated with a PhD in mass communications with a focus on advocacy, activism and social change. To make matters worse, most millennials live their social lives online and are prone to information overload. Encourage user-generated storytelling with social media.

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Social Community Impacts Volunteerism

Connection Cafe

Establishing a Discussion Group - When your volunteers can post and reply to messages to events they have an interest in, it facilitates a type of community in which volunteers feel more connected with their peers and committed to the cause. Creating a Blog within your Community - Why send the traffic back to Word Press and Blogger?

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Around the TechSoup Global Blogosphere

Tech Soup

Learn how to become a social organization with tips from Yammer 's director of community. NetSquared is organizing technology-for-social-good events all over the world. From the TechSoup Global Network. From the TechSoup Community. TechSoup Blog. This July, we’re celebrating web conferencing. Connecting Up Australia.

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This may be a Rhetorical Question: Quora?

Connection Cafe

By responding to questions on Quora, you have an opportunity to represent your organization and the expertise that you bring to discussions. Check out a few like: cancer , homelessness , aging , and climate change and you’ll find tons of interesting questions and answers. Nonprofits should also be asking questions on Quora.

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Guest Post: Community and Civic Engagement in Museum Programs

Museum 2.0

Since then, Stacey has become an indispensable member of our staff, leading our community programs and inspiring us to think in new ways about how we can build social capital in our community. There were times when coordinating a fire art festival while researching social capital theory made me want to burn my computer.

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Twestival: Are Fundraising Groundswells A Massive Opportunity or Distraction for Nonprofit Organizations?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've been experimenting with online fundraising in an age of social media since 2006. It is evolving from individuals leveraging their personal networks to groundswells. Last week, I wrote about Twestival , the most recent example of fundraising on Twitter and a networked fundraiser of a scale we haven't seen before.

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NpTech Summary: Advocacy 2.0, Sketchcastes, and NpTech in Different Languages

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As both a lesson and as a metric, failure is potentially productive at every level of socialmarkets - from the repeated return of one homeless person to shelter, to the repeated attempts to attach a value like SROI to such a story." An interview with Allen Gunn of Social Source Commons by Britt Bravo over at Netsquared.

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