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November Net2 ThinkTank Time: Examples from politics?

Whether your candidate won or not on Tuesday, we can all be happy to be rid of campaign commercials, right?  Since the campaigns are still so fresh in our memory, I wanted to use it for this month's Net2 Think Tank question.

Topic:

What was the best example or lesson learned about leveraging social media from the political campaigns this year?  We saw candidates speaking to citizens through various mechanisms, but we also know that candidates have a lot more money than most of our nonprofit organizations (even if the tools are free, staffing and strategy development isn't).  What social media tools, tricks, and strategies were employed that could be used successfully with nonprofits?

Here are a couple links from the applications themselves in case you didn't see them:

Deadline:

Saturday, November 22nd
(The round-up will be posted on Monday the 24th.)

How to contribute:

  1. Blog your answer to the question either on your blog or the NetSquared blog. (For directions on contributing to the NetSquared blog, click here)
  2. Tag your blog with net2thinktank
  3. Send me the link to your post! (You can leave a comment here, email me, etc.)

Thanks again to everyone who participated last month.  I'm really looking forward to your ideas and insights this month and think we have a lot of examples to choose from.  Be sure to send me the link to your post by Saturday, the 22nd!

The Net2 ThinkTank roundup will be posted on the NetSquared site on Monday, November 24th.

 

Submitted by Amy Sample Ward on November 6, 2008 - 7:43am
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Thank you!

Hi Duane-

Thanks for your contributions- linking to them now!

Submitted by Amy Sample Ward on November 25, 2008 - 5:10am.

Thanks!

Thanks, Brian - your post is up.

Submitted by Amy Sample Ward on November 25, 2008 - 5:09am.

Best Innovations Are Still To Come

 Amy -

Great questions - about what nonprofits can learn from the campaign.  But I think the better question is actually what can/should nonprofits do to be a larger part of the discussion about key issues, participate more closely in work with the new Administration and similar... and what options for social media and technology are available for that.

I tried to sum that up in this blog post: http://thinkingaboutmedia.com/2008/11/best-innovation-of-campaign-is-sti...

Maybe that can be part of your think tank question next month?  

Would love to discuss further.

 

Submitted by Brian Reich (not verified) on November 7, 2008 - 8:24am.

Learning from Obama's Campaign

Hi,

I Imade two posts (so far) on aspects of Obama's Campaign that advocacy (aka campaigning outside the USA) organisations can lear from. See

1) Obama's Win and the Power of Networking

2) Planning for Success: Change.gov

I look forward to reading your final list!

Cheers,

Duane

 

Submitted by Duane Raymond (not verified) on November 17, 2008 - 4:42am.

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