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Rwanda and Twitter

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Many government leaders in Rwanda have embraced Twitter, both in the “official’ capacity, tweeting from their Ministry’s profile for formal communication or often from a personally branded profile. There are many women in leadership government positions in Rwanda, and many are on Twitter.

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My Facebook Birthday Cause: Thank You (and Some Unsolicited Feedback To Causes)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Not two minutes had passed after I set up my birthday campaign and added it to my profile, I got pinged from Facebook friends asking how they could install it. As friends make a donation, it automically appears in your profile newsfeed. It matches real world philanthropic behavior. I've been doing this for years.

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Dancefloor and Balcony: What I learned about emergent online collaboration from Eugene Eric Kim

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Foundation’s Organizational Effectiveness program has long supported projects to help Foundation grantees improve management, governance, and leadership. His work was recently profiled in this New York Times piece. More than one third of Packard Foundation’s grantees are networks and many more get their work done through networks.

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Generating Activist Impact: Political & Advocacy Call-To-Actions

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Another type of petition is an advocacy sign-up form that directly interfaces with outreach to government officials, especially elected representatives. Do NOT violate the user terms and conditions governing appropriate on-platform behavior. Have supporters change their profile picture. Legislative Calls-To-Action.