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Case Study: How Human Rights Watch Leverages Employee Personal Brands on Twitter

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In addition, they have an internal listserv for support where staff share suggested tweets for new reports or new features or techniques on Twitter. In today’s connected world, using social as yourself rather than hiding behind the organization’s trust can generate more engagement and trust that leads to more impact.

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Nonprofits Using Ning: An Interview with Community Media Workshop and Best Practices

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Ning, which lets you set up your own custom social network, has attracted attention for its ability to create communities that are more functional than those created through competing services from Google and Yahoo listservs. But many nonprofits are using Ning for peer-to-peer knowledge sharing and learning. All about the Forums.

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ExhibitFiles: Interviews with Initiators Jim Spadaccini and Wendy Pollock

Museum 2.0

The artifacts are reaccessioned, the labels (hopefully) recycled, but what happens to the knowledge? NSF requires grant applicants to build on prior knowledge--where do you get it? Wendy: We were also very concious about not wanting ExhibitFiles to interfere the ASTC/ISEN listserv. What happens to an exhibit when it closes?

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Most blog software can generate a RSS feed with the click of a button - you don??????t You can think of it as having 24/7 access to another users filing cabinet, but each user's collection of bookmarks helps to build an rich knowledge network. Step 8: Understand The Power Remix Culture and User-Generated Content.

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Philanthropic Leadership: Engaging Board Members As Fundraising Ambassadors

Bloomerang

And my mission is really to educate and empower nonprofit leaders and their teams with the knowledge and tools to scale their revenue and amplify their impact. So feel free to get on our mailing listserv or whatever the real phrase is called and stay in touch. As nonprofits, we have the missions of our organizations.

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Wikis: What, When, Why

Museum 2.0

The most well-known example is Wikipedia , a user-generated encyclopedia which boasts over 6 million entries written and edited by about 30,000 volunteer participants. While there are some criticisms of its consensus-based model for information-vetting, there's no doubt of its success as a collaborative knowledge-creation project.

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Meet Nicola M. Wells: Social Media As An Online Door Knocking Campaign for Immigrant Rights

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FIRM has built a social media infrastructure that links together our blog, social network presence, listserv and static website into a coherent network of tools. Now that FIRM has built stuff, learned stuff, we have to share that knowledge in a comprehensive and useful way. That's the importance of the guide I'm helping pull together.