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Cool App Roundup: Election Edition

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app offers polling location information, sample ballots, and election. polling place, review voting rules, and contact Election Protection if. Philly Votes is an Ushahidi -powered poll monitoring initiative that gathers and maps voting incident reports, such as voter intimidation and long lines. The VoterHub. Instead of.

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How to Engage Your Supporters and Find Super Fans

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It's not enough to just share stories about your impact — how do you mobilize and engage people who are passionate about issues you're working on? NetSquared DC organized a panel discussion on Engagement Strategy: Empowering Champions* and Influencers* on November 3, 2015, to delve into this question.

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My NTC Schedule in New Orleans Next Week and My Giant Insect Goal

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One of the reflections to come out of this week SXSW Conference was for moderators of panels to use Twitter (or back channel tool) to poll the audience upfront and monitor it real time. Bernard leaves hotel 12:30 Training Team works on site from 12-2 Jay Dedman Video Blogging Workshop -2-5. Netsquared Meet up 5:00 PM.

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#11NPD: Rethinking Movement Buildling

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Moderated by NTEN membership director, former NetSquared organizer, and friend of TechSoup Amy Sample Ward , "Rethinking Movement Buildling" brought together three luminaries from organizations whose stock-in-trade are movements to promote social change. It didn't really work (according to Flower). The result?

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Google + for Social Change Activists: Dive in Early or Wait?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Two grantees that work on Children’s Healthcare at the national level and have experience using social media as part of an integrated campaign were co-presenters. During the Webinar, I polled the group’s general approach. The focus is how to effectively integrate social media channels and measure and learn.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Five Hot Conversations!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Screenshot of a poll from Philanthropy 2173 Still time to register your opinion! " Lucy Bernholz offers some commentary here and is taking a poll on the topic here. Comment, Blog it, tag it NpTech, and/or start a blog over at the Netsquared site. Cross posted at Netsquared Five Hot Conversations. Change the World!

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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.