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The Internal is the new External: EDF Business Innovation Exchange

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The objective of the The Innovation Exchange is to facilitate rapid and widespread adoption of environmental innovation in business. Blurring the lines between internal/external: What does modeling transparent behavior actually look like on the ground? For one thing, the line between internal and external discussions is thin.

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Free E-Book: NetworkforGood Giving Day Planning Guide

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Making it easy for your champions to do the work is also important and you’ll find lots of templates and examples that you can remix on the Knight Foundation’s Giving Day Playbook and toolkits on the GivingTuesday site. Let your champions and supporters roll with adapting and remixing your content or jumping onto fun memes.

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Guest Post by Kira Marchenese: What Happened When We Introduced 350 Staff to Social Media

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Note From Beth: Since 2007, I've been using, adapting, and remixing the Social Media Game social media workshops for nonprofits. EDF has embraced the spirit of this sharing - not only remixing a version of the game for their organization,but also sharing back the materials and what worked! . Here’s what we’re seeing.

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A Social Publishing Strategy by John Gautam, Pratham Books

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Also, for our Creative Commons licensed books to be remixed/repurposed by the community in whatever way they wish to. Flickr : Documentation of the work we do and also to upload our Creative Commons licensed illustrations so that they can be remixed/reused. (See See this blog post from Creative Commons ).

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Social Media in the Nonprofit Workplace: Does Your Organization Need A Social Media Policy?

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But, if an organization simply cuts and pastes a social media policy without the internal culture change, it won't be effective. Not only about the potential concerns and how to respond, but how the organization or its internal culture can embrace social media. There needs to be discussion. The conversation is the first step.

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Social Media Integrated Campaign Case Study Slam: SSIR Social Media on Purpose Conference

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Last week, I had the pleasure of designing and facilitating the ultimate social media practitioner panel at the Social Media on Purpose Conference hosted by Stanford Social Innovation Review. Trenton DuVal , Development & Communications Manager, International Development Exchange (IDEX).

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

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Yesterday at the Packard Foundation, as part of a series of "deeper dives" to learn about networks and social media, Eugene Eric Kim of Blue Oxen Associates gave a talk about "Networks in an International Context." . He is currently facilitating strategic planning for the wikimedia movement.