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New on SSIR: First and Foremost Know Your Community

Amy Sample Ward

The piece is reposted below: Have we replicated our offline social dynamics and barriers online? If we truly are reproducing our offline social divides online, then it’s further proof that the central part of your social media strategy needs to be focused on your audience. I believe we have, and so does Danah Boyd.

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Vote and Comment for ALL these Awesome Nonprofit Panels at SXSW!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In many towns, NPR and PBS stations are the only locally-owned media organizations, and their mission to serve the public demands that they develop new ways of engaging and strengthening those communities. Online numbers don’t always equate offline results. Crowdsourcing the Corporate/ Nonprofit Partnership. What are they good for?

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The Math Is Starting to Add Up: The Promise of Mobile

NTEN

This resulted in us creating a “sneaker-net” approach to providing basic asynchronous ICT services to rural villages: a complete offline Wikipedia that fit on a CD-ROM, and severely restricted bandwidth throttling to allow community radios to access the Internet (via prepaid RBGAN) for $2-3 a day. .

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Social Media for Good and Evil, Strong and Weak Ties, Online/Offline,and Orgs and Networks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Rather than comparing Woolworth sit-ins to the much-hyped Twitter Revolution, finding the latter coming up wanting, and stopping there, Gladwell might have given some space in the New Yorker to dig a little deeper to find examples of folks using technology to organize in intriguing, successful ways. She Jillian York’s critique.

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Top 10 SXSW Interactive Panels Your Nonprofit Should Attend - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

The Future Of Social Networks When : Saturday, March 14th from 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm: Room A Description: Social networks will be like air, in that they will permeate everything that we do online AND offline. Panel: Delicious Tech for Localism: Sustainable Food 2.0 The Mobile Web for Good: Hype or Reality? All rights reserved.

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Peer-to-Peer Crowdfunding Myths & How To Ensure Success

The Modern Nonprofit

You’re not going to over-hype a message to your mother or your very best friend. Your focus should be on trying to get your local television station, your local newspaper, your local radio station – or maybe you pitch the national news (depending on the nature of the story). It won’t hurt.

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