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Beth’s Surprise Party: A Case Study in Crowdsourced Action

Amy Sample Ward

Here are some reflections about how we used crowdsourcing techniques for a very fast-moving campaign and lessons learned that may apply to your work. See the Google Doc for links.). Yesterday was a very exciting day: we threw a surprise party for Beth Kanter online! And we wanted it to be easy to do – write a blog post!

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Case Study: Tools for Community Engagement

NTEN

ToMamaWithLove (TMWL) is no exception – but, as Stacey Monk, CEO of Epic Change, reflects, "It's a much different medium than it used to be.". When it came to blogger outreach, a Google Doc was the preferred and successful tool. Some of what they used Google Docs for included: A new form for supporters to sign up for various Missions.

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11NTC Round-Up: Your Posts, Highlights, and Take-aways

NTEN

Check out notes taken by session attendees throughout the conference using Google Docs , too! Session Materials If you attended the conference, visit myNTC for individual session pages, links, notes, and more. If you did not attend the conference, visit the SlideShare event to review presentations.

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Around the TechSoup Global Blogosphere, March 20-26

Tech Soup

Kevin warns of a newly discovered security weakness in Google Docs. Robert considers a study that asks whether first-time online donors become recurring donors. Sarah reflects on how librarians around the world are learning to offer better services with fewer resources.

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Observations and Reflections on #TakeBackThePink

Amy Sample Ward

You can read the summary of how the free agent community came together to self-organize and create a public action as well as a full report of the lessons learned and reflections on the #TakeBackThePink campaign in this public google doc. Observations & Reflections. 10 Lessons from Community-Driven Organizing.

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Rebecca Leaman, Guest Post: What Else Can We Talk About? 10 Years Since The Cluetrain Manifesto

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Ten years ago, Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls, and David Weinberger laid out 95 principles for communicating with customers online. A recent Edelman Canada study. Submitted by Rebecca Leaman, publisher of Get your sanity back , Wild Apricot's non-profit technology blog. Simple as that. Hence the rise in cause marketing.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Face-to-Face or Mediated Experience, Open Source Software Communities, and Blog Days

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Organizing a community and serving it well has a lot of dimensions poorly reflected in webstats alone. Laura Whitehead of Laura's Notebook highly recommends the recent CommonCraft video on Google Docs in Plain English. As one person in the comments of Michelle's posts notes, "Holly and Michelle are right to argue for context.