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In Defense of Community Managers

Amy Sample Ward

I’m excited to see the proposal gain momentum and hopefully move to implementation soon! Community Managers ensure successful engagement and participation on a new platform by facilitating discussion, modeling behavior, and supporting leadership development. Background. What do you think?

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Book Review: Connecting to Change the World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Peter and Madeleine were the among the pioneers in writing about, designing, facilitating, and evaluating networks in the social impact space. I have designed and facilitated a number of networks like this, although I have called them “Peer Learning Exchanges.” Resources: What is the network’s funding model?

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Reflections on MuseumNext and Facilitating Brainstorming

Museum 2.0

Facilitator bits. I was very interested in the way an event like this can effectively flip the standard model for brainstorming with outsiders; rather than each project leader paying individuals to come help work on their project, everyone paid to come and help each other. You did great.

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Why Can’t the Nonprofit and Philanthropic Sector Scale Generosity? #givedaylessons

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For the past few years, I’ve been facilitating a peer learning group with a small cohort of grantees , all community foundations, hosting Giving Days in their communities using the Giving Day Playbook. What Happened on Give Local America Day? How did community foundations support their nonprofit partners when things got bad?

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What to Expect from Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud and How to Start Using it Right Out of the Box

fusionSpan

From high-touch major gift cultivation to mass-market appeals and campaign management, users of Nonprofit Cloud have access to tools that facilitate personalized, multichannel outreach. Fundraising Gets an Upgrade in Nonprofit Cloud The fundraising capabilities within Nonprofit Cloud cater to the full spectrum of donor engagement strategies.

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Libraries: The Oldest New Frontier for Innovation

Amy Sample Ward

I’m in Austin, TX, today engaging with librarians, digital curators, and technologists working at the nexus of communities and knowledge at the Electronic Resources and Libraries annual conference. Why focus on that instead of content, or knowledge or information or anything else? Community-Driven Model. Why Community?

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Crowdsourcing: Measuring the Impact of the Crowd in Funding and Doing

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’ve had the pleasure working with Diana Scearce , from Monitor Institute, who has been facilitating and weaving this network. There’s isn’t one best way to do it – and many organizations use a combination of these models to meet their objectives. 1) Creating collective knowledge or wisdom. 2) Crowd Creation.

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