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How To: DIY Community & Content Mapping

Amy Sample Ward

But more than that, this exercise helps identify where you should concentrate efforts, where to distribute messages, and where you have the best chance of successfully engaging the community to support your work. Tags: resources community content howto strategy. Create a listening dashboard with this step-by-step guide!

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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. Remember to also provide opportunities for people to promote or support your competition like links to your social media outlets and ready-to-use messages. Tip #2: Pay attention.

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

Amy Sample Ward

Now that we have talked about who the community is and what it wants, as well as our goals and current resources, we have probably also identified opportunities for engagement – it may be ideas for specific groups or the whole network and it may be supporting an effort another group is already spearheading or starting something new.