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What’s the Secret to Social Media Success? Cute Animal Theory

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

grist.org has discovered what social media folks who work for zoos, aquariums, and animal welfare organizations already know. Cute animals rule the social web! The example below is from the Monterrey Bay Aquarium and one of their most popular videos. Time to Update The Cute Dog Theory of Social Media: Cute Animal Theory.

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How Are Your 2008 Activist Resolutions Going?

Have Fun - Do Good

We're half way through 2008, so I thought I'd share how mine are going, and check in on yours. Read Darfur Diaries by Aisha Bain, Jen Marlowe and Adam Shapiro. Read Darfur Diaries by Aisha Bain, Jen Marlowe and Adam Shapiro. Watched Darfur Now. Challenge for rest of 2008: I only have 6 more interviews for 2008.

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Harry Potter Alliance Raises Awareness About Darfur

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In May 2005, Andrew Slack and his friend Justin Oberman started a MySpace site to discuss the connections between the Harry Potter series and social justice. Sign the AsktheCandidates petition asking all of the 2008 Presidential candidates to commit to ending the genocide in Darfur. Harry Potter Darfur

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Best of Beth's Blog 2008: Finding The Top Ten Posts In Less Than Five MInutes!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Scored 10 How Much Time Does It Take To Do Social Media? Should There Be A Social Actions Category on Digg? Where Are The Gen-Y Bloggers Who Write About Nonprofits and Social Change? Thinking Strategically About Social Media. Social Change Behind the Firewall. Transparency and Social Media: Dealing with Criticism.

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The Drumbeat of Bad News in the Nonprofit and Philanthropy Sector and A Couple of Glimmers of Hope

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We also don't know whether and how online giving marketplaces, social enterprise, social investing and other innovations born in good times will stand a downturn, short or prolonged, and how those changes will ripple across longer-standing practices." Here's one for you.

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President's Update: Summer 2008

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Well, I just got my first one out in 2008! Benetech Update: Summer 2008 I'm thrilled to be writing you this update, because this year is unusually exciting even by Benetech standards. You can imagine the impact of Bookshare.org going from a $1 million per year enterprise in 2006 to over $7 million in 2008.

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What Are Your 2009 Have Fun Do Good Resolutions?

Have Fun - Do Good

My six 2008 Activist Resolutions went so-so: I did. Continue learning about why genocide happens and how I can take action by following blogs like the Genocide Intervention Network , ENOUGH , Stop Genocide on Change.org , Darfur: An Unforgivable Hell on Earth , and Human Rights Now. Each month they'll have a theme (i.e.

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