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GivingTuesday Prep: Everything You Need for 2023

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A tiered ad campaign can help hype your donors and get them into a giving mindset. By offering recurring giving plans on GivingTuesday, you’ll keep new donors in frequent contact with your organization, keeping you top of mind when they’re feeling generous.

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Guest Post by Michaela Hackner: Community Matters Even At SXSW

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But beyond all of the hype and noise, the most dominant theme I keep coming back to is that community is and always will be King. Both online and offline, communities are not only the way we identify ourselves, but more importantly, they are the most authentic and powerful vehicle for change. Some may exist solely online.

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Spotlight on Social Media, Crowdsourced Translation, Egyptian Protests and Diplomacy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My colleagues at SMEX Beirut had in mind when they posted this request, “ Free World: Speak Up For A Free Egypt ,&# a call to action to the world from Egyptian activists – originally posted here from @manal and @alaa.

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Community Matters, Even at SxSW

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But beyond all of the hype and noise, the most dominant theme I keep coming back to is that community is and always will be King. Both online and offline, communities are not only the way we identify ourselves, but more importantly, they are the most authentic and powerful vehicle for change. Some may exist solely online.

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Guest Post by Ivan Boothe: Social change takes more than social media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But in the long run, these tools also do a good job of hoovering up potential participants for offline actions that will make a difference. I thought the author made some good points, and ones "social change techies" would do well to keep in mind. Most change, unfortunately, doesn't happen at the end of a mouse-click.

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

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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. . Please keep in mind .

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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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