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Open Community Case Study – Food Bank

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Nurture small niche groups. On their Facebook page and Twitter account they aim to increase awareness of what they’re doing and what others are doing on their behalf. Jen says, “I think our approach of focusing efforts on the two platforms with the highest engagement factor, Twitter and Facebook, has paid off.

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Think Open Community Doesn’t Really Exist? Read This.

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It’s one thing to hear them talk about the concept of open community, or to hear me or other Kool-Aid drinkers echo it; it’s another to see an example of it coming from a group of people who probably have never given a second’s thought to open community in the context that we social media people do.

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Online & mobile disaster relief efforts for Japan

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Google has a good page on resources for aid to Japan – as you know, they have just launched a Google for Nonprofits program so they are very focused right now on how to mobilize people in various ways for both disaster relief and other social good causes ( more info here ). . More analysis and info from Beth Harte here ).

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A Tale of Two Communities Part II – Salesforce.com

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Here’s the quick overview of Salesforce.com’s community “outposts&# : Twitter: Salesforce has an active Twitter community. User Groups: Salesforce sponsors several hundred user groups across the USA. 56,689 posts (user to user, user to group, and user to session. 30,995 comments to other posts.

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Top SocialFish posts of 2010

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Thank you to you for making this blog as amazing a resource as it is! Facebook Groups And Facebook Pages – Everything You Need To Know. Community Management Resources. How do I “move” people over from our Facebook Group to our Facebook Page? Everything you ever needed to get started with Twitter. Make No Mistake.

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Quora? Verdict: Awesome.

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From the question guidelines , the goal is to: &# Make the site a great resource for people who want to learn. You can follow people (initially based on your connecting the site with your Facebook or Twitter accounts) and they can follow you; but this is NOT a social network. You can dig right into topics without connecting to anyone.

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Preparing for the Next Disaster: The Future of #crisisdata

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I’ve always evangelized the potential of tools like Facebook and Twitter to create meaningful communities and collaborations, but now realize the true opportunity for all of us who spend our days mixing up cocktails of mission and technology: social tools + people = lives saved. Please send someone to get her out.&#.

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