October 2010

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

Today’s Community Builder chat focused on examples and best practices for connecting on and offline community activities, events, and organizing. It was a really rich discussion – thank you to all those who joined in, shared, asked questions, and contributed! Recap: October Get the October Chat archive. Some of the examples and recommendations from this [...]

October 28, 2010 4 comments CONTINUE READING THIS ARTICLE…

NCVO Third Sector Foresight: Online Campaigning and Co-Creation

Date: October 28th, 2010 Location: London, UK (via video) Topic: Online Campaigning and Co-Creation Description:  This Third Sector Foresight seminar, run in collaboration with Campaigning Effectiveness, will focus on how charities and community groups will be campaigning in the future. We will also consider how changing expectations of participation might affect how organisations campaign in [...]

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NTEN Webinar: More than just a community

Date: October 26th, 2010 Location: Online Topic: More than just a community: Using communities to reach your program goals Description:  Your nonprofit has a presence on Facebook or maybe your own private online community.  Engaging your network to create deeper connections and get your message out is important, but have you thought about how you [...]

October 26, 2010 0 comments CONTINUE READING THIS ARTICLE…

October’s Community Builder Chat – #commbuild

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Are you working on building or supporting community beyond one geographic region? Maybe across multiple countries, or even continents. Or are you looking to move from online community to offline event coordination?  This month’s chat is for you! We’ll be talking about organizing events and supporting international/global communities. Really looking forward to it and hope [...]

October 26, 2010 2 comments CONTINUE READING THIS ARTICLE…

Guest Post: My tips to Have Fun * Do Good

My friend and engaging community leader for all those looking to have fun while improving the world, Britt Bravo, is doing a little experiment and asking a handful of bloggers to write short guest posts about how they have fun and do good.  I’m thrilled to be included in the line-up! Here’s my guest post: [...]

October 25, 2010 2 comments CONTINUE READING THIS ARTICLE…

Great reads from around the web on October 25th

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of October 25th). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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Better Together: Conference for Nonprofits from Blackbaud

Date: October 20-22nd, 2010 Location: Washington, DC, USA Topic: What’s the True Value of Social Media? Description:  Everywhere you turn there are tons of great stories about organizations doing wonderful things online to build communities and engage their supporters through Social Media. But what is it all for? We’ve all heard the sayings “If you [...]

October 21, 2010 0 comments CONTINUE READING THIS ARTICLE…

Join me for an NTEN Webinar! More than just a community: Using communities to reach your program goals

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Next Tuesday, I’m running a webinar with NTEN discussing “More than just a community: Using communities to reach your program goals.”  As always, I hope it’s a fun and informative session, but it’ll also have space for sharing and lots of questions.  I hope you’ll join me! Description:  Your nonprofit has a presence on Facebook [...]

October 21, 2010 0 comments CONTINUE READING THIS ARTICLE…

Unlocking the True Value of Social Media

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I have the fun opportunity to be a presenter at the 2010 Blackbaud Conference for Nonprofits! My session today focuses on the topic of “Unlocking the True Value of Social Media.” Slides Unlocking the True Value of Social Media View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. Helpful Links There were some great questions in the [...]

October 20, 2010 0 comments CONTINUE READING THIS ARTICLE…
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