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Offline-to-Online-to-Offline: Lessons Learned in Building a Custom Community Platform

Care2

The ambition of the online organizing platform never matched the success of the offline organizing community and strategy. The goal was to create a unified online community for the climate movement to reflect and spur more of the movement’s offline collaboration. After 12 months, it folded. What happened?

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New on SSIR: #4Change Examines Social Media for the Climate Change Movement

Amy Sample Ward

How can we and how are we using social media tools for social change? So, what are the biggest lessons for using social media in a global movement? There were three main lessons or focus areas that emerged in the discussion. Lesson #1: Voice. Lesson #2: Action.

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5 Assumptions Every Community Manager Should Make Daily

Amy Sample Ward

Wherever you are, and whatever the kind of community you are wrangling, there are some general lessons that I recommend. I hope you’ll share your lessons, too! You know more about the tools. You don’t [really] know your community members. I don’t say this to offend you, but just as a good reminder.

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Getting meta: Why the #CommBuild chats have evolved for three years and counting

NTEN

The hour usually flies by; the facilitator creates a Storify of the chat for our archives; and we take our lessons learned back to our respective workplaces. Sometimes we even put voices and faces to names (er, Twitter handles), whether through a phone call about the group’s evolution or an in-person meetup at the NTC.

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Getting meta: Why the #CommBuild chats have evolved for three years and counting

NTEN

The hour usually flies by; the facilitator creates a Storify of the chat for our archives; and we take our lessons learned back to our respective workplaces. Sometimes we even put voices and faces to names (er, Twitter handles), whether through a phone call about the group’s evolution or an in-person meetup at the NTC.

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Guest Post on Tactical Philanthropy: Causes, MySpace and ideablob

Amy Sample Ward

We can see (and learn a valuable lesson about) the way current ecosystem of social media works in regards to transparency, data, and community. There are many who approach the online landscape with very different views than their offline business decisions. The more voices the better! Well, it means a lot. What’s Next.

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Networked Capacity Building: Finish Line Grantees Social Media Training

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This blog post is a roundup of the face-to-face we had last week in Houston to share some of the amazing lessons learned and some reflections. So, for these organizations, their content pyramid also includes integrating offline w/online channels. On the Ground Engagement: What will you ask people to do offline? and storify.