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Ways We Can All Help Advance Women’s and Girls’ Empowerment

Connection Cafe

Women’s and girls’ empowerment is a sweeping topic, defined and shaped by family beliefs and cultural norms in the community and country where one lives. Some people associate the empowerment of women and girls primarily with challenges faced in communities where poverty and lack of access to education determine one’s level of empowerment.

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New on SSIR: Give Permission to Peer Influence

Amy Sample Ward

. —– A new report from the team at Forrester came out last week: Tapping The Entire Online Peer Influence Pyramid. It comes at the same time that I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about the importance of community builders/managers/leaders or organizational voices to give permission back to the community members.

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Book: Welcome to the Fifth Estate

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It also takes analyzing competitors and perhaps in the nonprofit sector, understanding the ecosystem or network of organizations working on similar issues. In short, listening is market research. With a relevant offering for the influencer, they seek blog coverage or social network profile endorsements.

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Nonprofit Public Relations For Beginners: How To Gain More Attention In Less Time

Kindful

The best stories to pitch the media (or include in any communication materials) have the following: Struggle/Solution : What community/personal issues does your organization address? Reach out to social media influencers? Let them know you’ve done your research and appreciate the voice they give to important causes.

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New on SSIR: Letting Technology Lead

Amy Sample Ward

Because individuals network together online and the biggest influencers are our closest friends in our network. Yes you can claim that anyone has the power to blog, but that’s really only the people who have access to the tools and the time and the empowerment. as a form of self expression and identification.

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New on SSIR: Letting Technology Lead

Amy Sample Ward

Because individuals network together online and the biggest influencers are our closest friends in our network. Yes you can claim that anyone has the power to blog, but that’s really only the people who have access to the tools and the time and the empowerment. as a form of self expression and identification.

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Bringing Women a Global Voice: Jensine Larsen, World Pulse

Have Fun - Do Good

"I would wake up in the middle of the night and still hear their voices. I just had to take that chance." - Jensine Larsen Jensine Larsen is the Founder and CEO of World Pulse , a global media and communication network devoted to bringing women a global voice. We unite those voices to accelerate change.

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