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Online Community Organizing: Start small, think big!

Amy Sample Ward

The other interviews include Sylwia Presley from Gobal Voices , and Claire Sale from NetSquared. Or even the networked influence from news coverage and stories from one group or city to the next. We should approach offline action as one of many channels available to us to reach our mission. I definitely recommend them both!

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How Your Organization’s CEO Can Use Social Media for Thought Leadership

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Thought leaders drive conversations – online and off, influence others, and shape perceptions in their field. They are the respected voices who others turn to understand sector social change issues. If they are an inspiring leader offline, they’ve incorporated this into their social stream and they understand their style and tone.

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Run a Productive, Fun Nonprofit Board Meeting

Get Fully Funded

If your by-laws do NOT include these things, you and your Board need to make this a priority to create these policies and amend your by-laws as soon as possible. I’d like to hear from our other members, though, so they can speak without being influenced by your knowledge or experience.” Don’t influence him. Just be patient.

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Increasing User Value / Moving to Influence

Forum One

A lot of the organizations we work with and others we see in the policy-issue, advocacy, "intellectual-commerce" realm, are interested in their work being more influential. These are all things that can be done amazingly well online, and at a scale that cannot easily be replicated offline. Don't we all !).

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You Can Stand Up for Health Care on Twitter and Facebook, What About On Google +?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

At minimum, this application lets people air their concerns to legislators and policy makers easily through Twitter and can amplify more traditional tactics such as email campaigns and signing online/offline petitions. In this example of using grassroots organizing to influence grass tops debates, how do we measure it?

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Networked Capacity Building: Finish Line Grantees Social Media Training

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We started with key results and worked backwards to technical assistance goals: Kids get health care coverage Policies are adopted More attention from policymakers. More and better partners, more and better relationships with reporters and more or better policy maker relationships. Member Voice Proxy: How will you make it memorable?

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Reflections from Stanford Nonprofit Management Institute: New Skills for a Complex World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

” There are also governance implications with new expectations for transparency and new norms of accountability given the growing influence of rating intermediaries like Great Nonprofits and Charity Navigator. If you want to dig into more of this thinking, I suggest you get a copy of Lucy’s toolkits for nonprofit leaders.

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