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Nonprofits, School Groups Pick up Fight Against Cyberbullying

Associations Now

A recent report finds that cyberbullying is on the rise, particularly among young girls. That’s according to recent research from the National Center for Education Statistics, which reported recently that three times as many girls (21 percent) reported being harassed using text messages or in online mediums as boys (7 percent).

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Monday Buzz: When It Comes to Salaries, How High Is Too High?

Associations Now

The debate continues after a Seattle company raises its minimum salary sky-high. Last week, Seattle-based credit-card-processing company Gravity Payments suddenly announced that it would raise its minimum salary to $70,000. Fast Company reporter Lydia Dishman asked several experts for their perspective. Other Good Reads.

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5 Meetings Industry Trends Defining 2017

Associations Now

Sure, we can be in constant contact with those near and far through email, social media, videoconference, and more, but the benefits of face-to-face interaction are still clear. Vancouver, coastal neighbor to Silicon Valley and Seattle, is one such city. 1 in Canada—and 15th in the world—for business and technology innovation.

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Three Analytics Tools to Gauge Your Social Audience’s Pulse

Beth Kanter

Three Analytics Tools to Gauge Your Social Audience’s PulseGuest Blog by Ritu Sharma, Co-Founder & Executive Director, Social Media for Nonprofits. In particular, their free reports give you your social audience’s pulse on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Google+, and other platforms. Then check out Simply Measured.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 5.18.18

Reid All About it

Some quick hits before we get to the list of free webinars: Good advice: how to make your social media feed more interesting. ( How to Use Social Media and Event Technology to Grow your Event Community. Explore the best social media channels that resonate with your community. In a three-part series, rasa.io

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What Gets Measured Gets Better

Beth Kanter

I spoke to a group of nonprofit in Seattle a few weeks ago at Pyramid Communications who found the advice for taking incremental steps towards improvement very useful. The model was also used for advanced practitioners as a benchmarking framework at Social Media Week in DC last week. Work intervened.

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The Internet Gets Charitable

Beth Kanter

Note from Beth: I hosted a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who attended the GeoFunders National Conference that took place last week in Seattle. In many ways, however, the KONY2012 episode is an old story about the power of social capital and strong narratives. Flickr Photo by Mburpee. Fulton’s talk was timely.

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