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Great reads from around the web on April 8th

Amy Sample Ward

Today, Wikipedia is the most widely used reference work in the world. These fall into two types: crises that originate in social media, and crises that originate offline. Rapid advances in digital media and technology are changing how we connect to information and each other.

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7 Ways You Can Connect at #16NTC

Tech Soup

Bridging the Divide: Online and Offline Community Managers — Thursday, March 24 — 10:30 a.m. The nonprofit sector has long struggled with the best way to refer people to services, but new technologies can change that. Want to know if NetSquared is right for you? Want to know if NetSquared is right for you?

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Social Media Tips from the TechSoup Global Network

Tech Soup

The guide also includes a handy, downloadable cheat sheet for reference. Read an account of how Canteen , an Australian nonprofit dedicated to supporting teenagers with cancer, used social media to raise awareness for an online and offline campaign. NetSquared. Want to get started on Twitter but don't know where to start?

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Social Media Tips from the TechSoup Global Network

Tech Soup

The guide also includes a handy, downloadable cheat sheet for reference. Read an account of how Canteen , an Australian nonprofit dedicated to supporting teenagers with cancer, used social media to raise awareness for an online and offline campaign. NetSquared. Want to get started on Twitter but don't know where to start?

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How to Engage Your Supporters and Find Super Fans

Tech Soup

NetSquared DC organized a panel discussion on Engagement Strategy: Empowering Champions* and Influencers* on November 3, 2015, to delve into this question. NetSquared DC Engagement Strategies Panelists — Maddie Grant, Andrew Nachison, and Dale Pfeifer (left to right). Engage Offline. The panelists included. Definitions.

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What's Your Best Live Blogging Advice?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm honored to be on the team of live blogging (that is, blogging about an event during an event) for the NetSquared Conference. So, our live blogging assignment is also an important reporting task because conference participants may need to refer to these notes to cast their votes. We aren't just taking notes for ourself.

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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

Submitted by Ivan Boothe, publisher of the Rootwork Blog Over at the NetSquared blog, Joe Solomon provided a great roundup of reasons people might be "jaded about social media for change" and ways they overcome it. Sometimes that's all you need - making a donation, sending petitions, affecting website ratings, flooding online polls, etc.