AFP Blog

MAY 8, 2009

Local Government 2.0 Uses Facebook, Twitter to Communicate With Public: "The city is one of a growing list of wired municipalities connecting to citizens young and old through social media. Join me for lunch today at Taste of Town,” Government 2.0 is going viral.".

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 2, 2011

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). " Pew: Open government is tied to higher levels of community satisfaction | Gov 2.0: Accidentally, of course.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 24, 2010

I recently had the opportunity to connect with Ricard Espelt to learn more about the various projects he’s working on in Spain leveraging new technologies for public engagement, government transparency and community building. How did your work getting the local council online get started? government. What’s the idea?

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 28, 2012

If you’re in the US today, there’s probably little chance you didn’t know it was Memorial Day – from the specials on TV, to local events, to remembrance stories, and even community gatherings, it’s hard to miss the message of today’s holiday. Sharing across platforms – Twitter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Facebook , Reddit , LinkedIn , and Twitter have great options. 12. Help the organization by researching and compiling information on government grants that may be available. This can include large Fortune 500 companies or even local law firms, smaller companies, business-to-business suppliers, or retailers.

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Top Nonprofits

APRIL 20, 2022

By following these suggestions during your planning process, you’ll be better prepared to drive awareness and make meaningful change at a local, national, or global level: Set clear campaign goals and identify a timeline. If you’re a new organization without many resources or contacts, you may have more luck working first at the local level.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2012

A similar example is that of an Atlanta city councilman who chose to post a message to Twitter asking for a medic to respond to an unconscious woman on the street rather than to dial 911 when his mobile phone battery was very low. The real-time web has also revolutionized the way we support local communities in disaster.

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NTEN

AUGUST 30, 2011

We know our friends over at the Red Cross have been expertly using social media for disaster response for years now, but this weekend, with Hurricane Irene set to touch down all along the east coast, we saw many other organizations and government entities reaching out via social media, as well.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). " The US will use Twitter and Facebook to issue terror alerts – "The U.S. What does it mean for community change?"

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NetWits

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Make sure to follow him on Twitter at @noyesjesse and check out the Eloqua blog – they’re doing some great things! — Maybe you’re satisfied with your communications strategy.Perhaps your nonprofit was recently featured on TV or saluted in the local newspaper. He’s a Corporate Reporter at Eloqua.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2014

Another example includes sharing the location of emergency response equipment such as ambulances and defibrillators — information currently spread across different federal and local agencies — to improve emergency response times. local governments are using open data to improve their services. Here in the U.S.,

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 10, 2009

" FutureGov Network - Carrie Bishop's at the Google Local Government event in London today and tweeting and blogging from inside. Twtbase currently lists over 500 of them, and I have highlighted five of my favorites for nonprofit organizations and activists…" Tags: roundup bookmarks.

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Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

It also offers an interactive opportunity to discuss key forms and governing documents(Form 1023 and Forms 990 and 990-PF.). 14th Annual Nonprofit Governance Symposium. 14th Annual Nonprofit Governance Symposium. Governing well is one of the most profound ways to help our communities. State/Local / #DCNP2018 / @DMANF.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2021

For example, I’m on the board of a local theater group, and the executive director’s most recent emailed newsletter was titled “ Theater Nurtures Democracy.” Twitter | LinkedIn | The post Top 2021 Fundraising Strategies: Mastering Relevant Content Marketing appeared first on Bloomerang.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

I've always evangelized the potential of tools like Facebook and Twitter to create meaningful communities and collaborations, but now realize the true opportunity for all of us who spend our days mixing up cocktails of mission and technology: . In the midst of inexplicable tragedy, my personal definition of the social web got rocked.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 6, 2012

With your help, we’ve amassed a wealth of current information on demand for services, trends in government support, board participation, and financial health. This increase in demand is coupled with unreliable and insufficient funding, particularly from the government.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 23, 2011

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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Bloomerang

JULY 24, 2021

Church attendees and church leaders responded that they are seeing people coming back more unified, more receptive to change, and their local communities—those who don’t attend church—are more open to partner(ing) with churches. “E arly research being collected from thousands of churches of various denominations across the U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2011

While they had a relatively smaller number of followers on Twitter or Facebook, they had focused on engaging their community online. They enlisted help from board members on Twitter, but being organized with a plan and timeline for asks was critical to their success. They have connected with many organizations on Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

We can easily fall into the use of shorthand or brand names to describe it: it is “social media” or the internet or Twitter or Facebook. To cite just two interesting efforts: STRIVE is layering the use of robust data platforms on to local community organizing and social service delivery in Cincinnati and other cities.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 27, 2017

This took the organization from a private franchise focused on local chapters to one the entire nation—and big donors—could get behind. The government also became much more involved in social and cultural welfare programs. This gave them greater voice in the government. Takeaway: What can we learn from Ward and Pierce?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2011

We’ll be live tweeting insights, so if you want to follow along, ask questions, or share ideas about networks, follow the #netfunders hashtag on Twitter. Governance and managing across difference in power and capacity in network participants / members. How and when to catalyze networks? When don’t networks work?

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 6, 2009

Some people are beginning to use twitter for adverts…and doing ‘paid tweets’ Is this going against the whole ethos of SM and especially Twitter, when authenticity is the key?” There are many different examples out there, ranging from small organization fundraising locally to organizations leveraging the global community for change.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Twitter has proven itself time and again as an excellent method of communication in times of crisis. Government agencies, such as FEMA , also used Twitter to get the word out about the storm starting a week before it hit. Tweak the Tweet is a layered map that shows the locations of disaster-related Twitter hashtags.

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Tech Soup

JULY 1, 2016

Governance Matters: Create a More Powerful Board Through Policy Governance. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: Monthly Meeting of Local Members. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: Monthly Meeting of Local Members. Wellington, New Zealand: Twitter Is Dead, Long Live Twitter! What Makes People Give? Make Your Donor the Hero.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Find your local #nptech tribe by joining a NetSquared Local group. Philadelphia, PA: Using Social Media to Connect and Strengthen Local Communities. Taiwan, Taipei: Internet community transform society zero government (g0v.tw). Honolulu, HI: Overview of Social Networking: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2009

.   The hope is to encourage people to volunteer in their local communities, not just for a day, but in a sustained, collaborative and focused effort to promote service as a way of life for all Americans. The challenge is to translate participation in electoral politics into engagement with governing. Do what we do.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

A TechSoup Global project, #NPTechChat is a monthly Twitter-chat series for social change activists that reduces barriers and increases impact by using technology around the globe. Join us for this one-hour live Twitter chat on October 6, 2015 at 7:00 am PT, 10 am ET, 4:00 pm Johannesburg time (UTC+2), and 7:30 pm New Delhi time (UTC+5.5).

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 28, 2013

For more insights, follow her on Twitter @laurabeussman. . In 1933, the Swiss government began building nuclear power plants and found themselves faced with a difficult decision – where should they dump the nuclear waste? They identified two locations but were afraid of the local townspeople’s response.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2013

The diverse crowd, made up of students, activists, government employees, and librarians, worked on datasets presented by the U.S. While the challenges were focused mainly on local or statewide issues, they came up with solutions that could be adopted for national issues as well. San Francisco Day of Civic Hacking. Leonard Library.

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Forum One

MARCH 1, 2009

There were folks there from NYC, west coast, and elsewhere, but about 2/3 were locals from DC. Twitter feed and Flickr pictures. Chatting with web strategy blogger Jon Udell about the challenges in his work to promote adoption by content producers and aggregators of the very valuable local community calendars. *

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 24, 2011

The NetSquared community consists of Local groups in 80+ cities worldwide that hold offline events for those interested in technology and social impact. As a part of this effort, we sent a special survey to our local organizers, including two questions about cloud computing. Here the responses varied somewhat.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 15, 2017

Publish your photo on Twitter or Instagram. Publish the photo on Twitter or Instagram. Publish the photo on Twitter or Instagram. and makes no representation or warranty that the Sweepstakes is in compliance with your local law. Dispute Resolution/Governing Law/Waiver of Jury Trial. March 27, 2017. a) In General.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2012

It is an thorough guide for the most common legal, governance, and fundraising compliance issues facing nonprofits. Her writing style is less lawyerly, and well, human. Determine compliance with federal, state, and local reporting requirements and Form 990 disclosures. Check bylaws for provisions regarding lobbying activity.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

technologies as an effective means of driving citizen engagement and increasing government transparency. Twitter, YouTube, or Facebook) without integrating them into their existing web presence, aside from home page cross-link placement. Tags: Events Government Transparency Strategy. technologies.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2015

TechHire spans the corporate, nonprofit, government, and educational sectors and has the ambitious goal to "give Americans the opportunity they deserve, and the skills they need to be competitive in a global economy." Twitter's technical staff was only 10 percent women, and Facebook and Yahoo's was at 15 percent.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 26, 2023

Use social media Depending on your target audience, social media platforms like LinkedIn, Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter can be powerful tools for promoting your merchandise. Think about hosting a pop-up shop or partnering with local businesses to host events.

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