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9 Tips for Creating a Social Media Advocacy Campaign

Media Cause

Amidst the constant stream of news updates, social media advocacy campaigns offer people a relevant way to make a difference on the issues they care about. Tag the campaign target—and influencers, journalists, and partner orgs. Social media is one of the most powerful tools for activating people to take action.

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October Community Builder Chat – Connecting On and Offline Communities #commbuild

Amy Sample Ward

Some of the examples and recommendations from this month’s chat included: UN Food&Ag Org (FAO) has done a great job with their Share Fairs – sharing the discussions and training on and offline. Tags: Monthly Chats 4change commbuild community community building monthly chat. It works really well.

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Blog Action Day 2010: Water

Amy Sample Ward

This means that sewage spills into rivers and streams, contaminating drinking water and causing disease. org and others. org – share with others to get them thinking, too – at: [link]. Tags: blogging campaigns. More people have access to a cell phone than to a toilet. billion people lack access to toilets.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Party Metaphors, Conversations, and A Few Good Links

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Susie's Blog asks readers for examples of showing the need for ICT support in the VCS, "perhaps in the mould of terrible - things - we - have - witnessed - by - orgs - who - were - wildly - going - off - on - their - own - without - money - or - guidance." lolnptech.org includes photos of people, who could be tagged as "nptech."

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Wiring the Green Movement for Earth Day

Amy Sample Ward

I wanted to use today to focus in on a question recently posed by my good friend Joe Solomon on Twitter : What are the nonprofit/orgs that are working 2 wire the green movement, like what @ netsquared does 4 nonprofits, @ sunfoundation for politics; which orgs are working to expose data, leverage soc media, connect the orgs together?

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Campaigning #4Change Recap

Amy Sample Ward

I’ve tried to pull out some of the relevant tweets from the Twitter stream to help follow the flow of the conversation in case you missed it. rootwork : Key element for success, to me, is allowing ppl to speak in own voice, e.g. [link] was abt ppl, not an org. realize_ink : camp strat brings u closer 2 achieving org strat.

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Unlocking Data for Philanthropy: Notes from Global Philanthropy Forum Session

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

3) Social Network Analysis of the #GPF13 tag during the discussion created by Marc Smith. How do we protect data streams that in the public interest? The data streams through nonprofit activities are not just by-products – they are important. Notes from Session. IssueLabs is a great start.