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How to Overcome a Victim Mindset in Order to Better Serve Your Nonprofit and Your Community

Bloomerang

If you feel like you’re in the survivor mindset, I want to be a voice of encouragement for you. You now walk around with a sense of empowerment, knowing that you can solve problems that come up in your personal and professional worlds. . In fact, so much is in your power. It’s OK if you’re still having to fight for things.

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Book: Welcome to the Fifth Estate

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Geoff reminds us that a good positioning statement is simple and dictates messaging used during media interactions. By building relationships with critical influencers, they hope the communities following these leading voices will follow suit. He outlines ways to approach interaction across different social platforms and technologies.

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What I Learned About Online Donor Engagement from Fundraisers in Brasil

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The moderator, Marcelo Jamberio, organized a set of questions that other Marcelo and I responded to with slides and audience interaction. I facilitated a brief interactive exercise with the audience to better understand the process. Empowerment. The audience laughed. The challenges: Explosion of online media channels.

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International Women’s Day: Using Technology to Empower Women and Girls

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The One Campaign has launched an open letter signed by 86 leading voices for women around the world. I’ve been committed to working on technology capacity building for organizations serving Women and Girls empowerment. 2016 is the year that real money and reforms must start to right these wrongs.

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New on SSIR: Letting Technology Lead

Amy Sample Ward

Applications like Causes also enable individuals to give voices to your work that you don’t have to control or manage – campaigns that benefit you because your supporters believe and appreciate the work you are doing. ( Check out a great post from Ivan Boothe of Rootwork on this topic.). Looking Ahead.

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New on SSIR: Letting Technology Lead

Amy Sample Ward

Applications like Causes also enable individuals to give voices to your work that you don’t have to control or manage - campaigns that benefit you because your supporters believe and appreciate the work you are doing. ( Check out a great post from Ivan Boothe of Rootwork on this topic.). as a form of self expression and identification.

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New on SSIR: Give Permission to Peer Influence

Amy Sample Ward

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. . —– A new report from the team at Forrester came out last week: Tapping The Entire Online Peer Influence Pyramid.

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