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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

There are no better champions for your organization’s communication’s strategy than your staff. I interviewed Jim Murphy , Senior Online Editor, about how Human Rights Watch ’s integrated social media strategy leverages the personal brands HRW 197 employees to get results. The organizational strategy is to impact policy change.

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Ten Ways Small NGOs Can Collaborate

NTEN

By Edward Granger-Happ, Global CIO, International Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). The MobileActive listserv is a good one for phone-based app's. 9) Develop a partnered IT strategy. Why would nonprofit want to collaborate on IT Strategy? What can small nonprofits do to benefit from collaboration? And it will!

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Finding the Best People: Strategies for Effective IT Hiring

NTEN

There are, however, specific strategies and tools that will position you for success in the hiring process. Groups such as NTEN, TechSoup Global, NPower, and your regional nonprofit association may also be able to provide resources and guidance. Needs Assessment. Screening Candidates.

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CharityBlog, A French N-TEN (Oui ou Non?), and NGO Meme

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I came across CharityBlog while lurking on the UK Riders listserv. (I I started lurking a few months back because of my trip to London for the Global s Summit.). Maybe it is just that blogging gives you a global audience. I tagged John Howes of CharityBlog for Nancy White's NGO meme. Here's my response to her tagging me).

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Purpose Prize Awards $100K to Social Justice Innovators Over 60

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Check out the Purpose Prize , which is looking to award up to $100K to social innovators who are creating new ways to solve pressing social issues, ranging from education to health care to poverty and global warming. Coate said: “Another successful outlet is spreading the word through listservs, blogs, and organizational newsletters.

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Using Social Networking Sites for Campaigns: An Interview with Carie Lewis, HSUS

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've been following Carie Lewis's posts on the NTEN Affinity groups as well as other nonprofit tech listservs (yes, I still do read listservs) and caught up with her for an interview. Can you talk a little bit about how you mix or integrate social media tools with more, er, "traditional" online marketing strategies?

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NpTech Tag: Change.org To Launch White-Label Social Network for Nonprofits, GeekToys that Give Geekbumps, and Blog Readability

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One hopes that nonprofits deciding to roll their own social networks, aren't creating their own social silos and have gone into it with a solid strategy, clear objectives and measurable metrics , and can evaluate the ROI. I'd love to see more detail, like an overview the strategies or how they measure success. What do you think?