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E-Mediat Day 3: Digital Activism

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The learning objectives: To provide participants with a formula for training digital campaign strategy. The session provided strategy theory and a simulation exercise based on creating a digital activism campaign for the Story of Electronics film (that now has Arabic sub-titles ). Mary Joyce, Digital Campaigns.

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My Facebook Birthday Cause: Thank You (and Some Unsolicited Feedback To Causes)

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Every year I do a fundraising campaign using social media. For my 50th birthday, I held a 50th Birthday Card Flickr Photo Remix Party Well, a few weeks ago, I read a blog post by Amy Sample Ward about Birthday Causes, This new feature lets individuals on Facebook create a birthday fundraising campaign as part of a Cause.

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Vote for the First Anti-Genocide Hotline on Reddit

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My colleague, Ivan Boothe, who works with the Genocide Intervention Network and who is incredible smart about integrating social media into cause-related campaigns, pinged me about this reddit campaign. I wanted to help him out, so follow that link above and then follow the instructions. Then come back here.

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NpTech Tag: Socially Responsible Idol, Nptech Meebo Chat at PDF Conference, and Personal Fundraising

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Peter Dietz has started a personal fundraising campaign. If you were not lucky enough to get to Australia to attend the Connecting Up 2007 Conference (the nonprofit technology conference for Aussies!), to raise an extra $500 for each of the 21 Netsquared Featured Projects. without leaving the virtual world!

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NpTech Tag Summary: Voting Deadline at Netsquared Extended, NTC Pipe, and More

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Peter Deitz, from FOIK, also a nominated project, offers volunteer assistance to the other 149 projects in implementing personal fundraising campaigns. The are many projects are out campaigning for votes -- for example - here , here , here , here , here , here , here , here ,and here. NTC 2007 Pipe. Google Blog Search.

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How I'm Celebrating My 53rd Birthday: Cambodia, Chocolate, and Class

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User-Generated Flickr Birthday Card Contest: For my 50th birthday, held a contest where friends got to remix embarrassing photos of me into a 50th Birthday Card on Flickr. Beth's 52nd Birthday : This was campaign that used Facebook Causes and the Birthday wish feature and a matching donation. I donated $50 to the winner's charity.

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How To: Putting Technology to Use (July 2009)

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As Holly said , smart phone usage grew 80% between June 2007 and June 2008. Consider this particularly hilarious YouTube remix video. All you need to make a similar remix that -- oh, we don't know -- matches the words of a certain former VP with " Every Breath You Take ", you just need some video footage.