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Great reads from around the web on June 11th

Amy Sample Ward

An open letter to companies planning online communities | Community Building – I love this "open letter" from Martin Reed at CommunitySpark – it touches on so many "cultural" and infrastructure needs that organizations should think about BEFORE creating an online community space. ."

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Great reads from around the web on December 8th

Amy Sample Ward

The paper will be open to comment til the end of January 2010.&#. What it takes is the intent to be part of the progress, the bravery to start an open conversation, the maturity and patience to not make it personal, and the investment in the outcomes to take it a step further.&#.

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How To: Create a Listening Dashboard for your Organization

Amy Sample Ward

Net2 Think Tank is a monthly blogging event open to anyone and is a great way to participate in an exchange of ideas. Tags: resources rss webtools howto listening net2thinktank. With your listening dashboard in place you can start monitoring what’s being said about you, your work, and your sector instantly.

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Designing Programs to Build Community: Case Study with Charity Technology Trust

Amy Sample Ward

These words included things like: open, mutuality, learning, not “techie,&# not about CTX, knowledge sharing and storytelling (and more). In the case of CTX, the sweet spot had key words like: open. Tags: case studies resources casestudy community communitybuilding ctt howto strategy tsg. What already exists? peer to peer.

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Guest Post on Frogloop: 5 Tips for Running a Competition

Amy Sample Ward

NetSquared supports the community at the intersection of technology and social impact in a few ways, including open innovation competitions. The more information you can provide before you open your competition up for submissions, the better! Tags: case studies challenge competition frogloop guest post howto tips.

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Great reads from around the web on May 16th

Amy Sample Ward

Open Source Zanby Announcement | Zanby.com – I'm so very excited to see this group/community platform go open source! 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).

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DIY Community Engagement Metrics

Amy Sample Ward

Again, this conversation can be really eye-opening as a part of building the community map, but also as far as encouraging dialogue within your organization and providing clarity around the organizational goals and the way they play out with the community engagement. New grants or new programs.

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