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Influencing Public Policy in the Digital Age: Legal Rules and Regulations for Social Media

Can a c3 lose its tax status over a careless Tweet? What happens when a politician “likes” your organization’s Facebook page?

As we gear up for Netroots Nation 2013, we’re taking a closer look at some of the convention’s hottest training sessions. Today’s post focuses on a session designed to clarify the rules for using social media, blogs and email as part of an advocacy toolkit.

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ShareProgress: An interview with analytics expert Jim Pugh

As we gear up for Netroots Nation 2013, today we’re interviewing analytics expert, Jim Pugh, who has developed an exciting new tool called Share Progress, which optimizes social sharing.

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10 Secret Ways To Make Your Stuff Maybe Go Viral If You Are Really Lucky

You can’t make everything go viral. We both know that. You’re boss doesn’t though.

As we gear up for Netroots Nation 2013, we’re taking a closer look at some of the convention’s hottest training sessions. Today’s post focuses on a session led by the self-proclaimed hacks from Upworthy. In this session they’ll teach attendees how to win on the social web, thereby growing traffic on their own sites and making their bosses understand that what they do matters, and that while they aren’t magicians, they got the skills to pay the bills.

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Graphic Design Hacks for Non-Designers

Do you wish you could make that killer graphic you envisioned? Are you jealous of your friends who are proficient with Adobe Creative Suite? Do you feel like the internet is a giant pool of visually appealing content, but you’re stuck on deck because you don’t know the tools?

As we gear up for Netroots Nation 2013, we’re taking a closer look at some of the convention’s hottest training sessions. Today’s post explores a session designed for everyone that answered “yes” to one of the above questions. This session is for anyone who is looking to gain basic design skills to enhance their (or their organization’s) online presence.

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Up Up, Down Down: Cheat Codes for the Internet

Did you know there are cheat codes that can help you win the internet?

As we gear up for Netroots Nation 2013, we’re taking a closer look at some of the convention’s hottest training sessions. Today’s post focuses on a session designed to teach attendees how to game the two big bad bosses of the internet—Google and Facebook—and position content to win.

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Make It Pop: Using Data Visualisation To Understand What You’ve Done, are Doing and Should Do

We understand the importance of data-driven work in organizing, but how do we properly understand the data to be driven by them?

As we gear up for Netroots Nation 2013, we’re taking a closer look at some of the convention’s hottest training sessions. This post focuses on a session designed to teach attendees techniques for visualizing and tabling data so they can properly understand what they’ve done, what they’re doing and where to go, as well as to show open source software that can do it all.

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