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3 Things Every Board Member Should Know About Social Media

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That’s just one of the great pieces of advice we got from this week’s terrific guest blogger Anthony Pisapia of Philadelphia nonprofit Tech Impact. If that’s the case for your organization, here are some realities you should be aware of before you ask them to take on that new social media channel.

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Beijing 2008 Olympics Potential Catalyst for Human Rights

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The 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing is providing leverage for Tibetan, Darfurian, Burmese and Chinese human rights campaigns: The International Campaign for Tibet created the Race for Tibet. We believe China and the IOC should be held accountable to the promises they made during Beijing's bid for the 2008 Olympics."

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20th Anniversary of World AIDS Day

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This year is the 20th anniversary of World AIDS Day , which takes place every year on December 1 to raise awareness about AIDS pandemic. This awareness day can help bring much-needed global attention to the disease, particularly via the Internet. Over the years, web awareness raising campaign have gotten more sophisticated.

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How Can Changebloggers Make a Greater Impact Online and Offline?

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October 15th was Blog Action Day , a day for bloggers, podcasters and vloggers to write about and raise awareness about an issue. For the month of September, Natasha Maw read and blogged in an effort to create awareness, and raise funds for Darfur. The theme for this year was poverty. She read 31 books and raised $1,1136.60.

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How Can We Make Charitable Giving A Year-Round Habit?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Beth's Birthday Cause I was listening to a story on Marketplace on NPR this afternoon with Tess Vigeland and Chris Farrell who reviewed their 2008 financial goals and graded themselves on their accomplishments. Chris Farrell set a 2008 goal to make his charitable giving a monthly activity, not a mad rush in December.

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Changebloggers: Using Social Media to Create Social Change

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If you have a favorite blog (or podcast or vlog) that uses its platform to raise awareness, build community and/or facilitate readers/listeners/viewers' taking action to make the world a better place, will you post the blogs/podcasts/vlogs' name and URL in the comments? It's time to expand my Changeblogger reading/listening/viewing list.

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Twitter As Charitable Giving Spreader: A Meta Analysis

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you know of campaigns and lessons learned that haven't been included, please leave a comment: August 2007 I launched a campaign to raise money and get t-shirts donated for the Cambodian Bloggers Summit. January 2008 As the first place winner in the America's Giving Challenge for Global Causes, I use several twitter strategies.