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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: Women for Women International

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Following that, Women for Women International moved on WordPress, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter throughout 2008-2010. I developed a full-scale social media campaign that required daily posting for summer 2010 and didn’t even come close to posting every day. The first social networking tool the organization utilized was MySpace is 2007.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

Since then, the platform (which is open source ) has been modified for use in South Africa (mapping xenophobic violence), DR Congo , Vote Report India (to monitor the recent local elections) and more. http ://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/world/americas/21text.html?_r= Costs & Benefits. link] Hurricane_Katrina_disaster_relief.

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Virtual Platforms for Good: Empowering Individuals

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

although the time frame is closer to 5 or 6 years from now (and I think it was Gartner who said that by 2010 or 2011 pretty much everyone is going to have a "Second Life" in a 3D Virtual World -I wrote about it in More people leading 3D virtual lives online ) due to hardware and platform restrictions that prevent a wider adoption now.

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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: WITNESS

Nonprofit Tech for Good

An example was the opportunity to feature a video about the lack of treatment available for those living with HIV in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on YouTube’s homepage. Since mid-2010, WITNESS has been investing resources in mobile marketing and communications. Are you currently investing resources in mobile marketing i.e,

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13 Women Changing the World

Have Fun - Do Good

Listen: Big Vision Podcast interview (April 20, 2010) Read: Transcript on Have Fun, Do Good 3. Listen: Big Vision Podcast interview (May 18, 2010) Read: Transcript on Have Fun, Do Good 4. Listen: Big Vision Podcast interview (November 1, 2010) Read: Transcript on Have Fun, Do Good 8. Jensine Larsen Founder, World Pulse.

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Arts Activist Naomi Natale and The One Million Bones Project

Have Fun - Do Good

." - Naomi Natale, One Million Bones Naomi Natale is the founding artist behind One Million Bones , a collaborative art installation designed to recognize the millions of victims and survivors who have been killed or displaced by ongoing genocides and mass atrocities in Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Burma.

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Five Social Media Fundraising Trends for 2009

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So for this post, I'd like to share 5 fundraising trends that we saw emerging in 2009 related to fundraising and social media and that will most definitely continue to have impact in 2010. As we march into 2010, might we see the invention of Real Time Web fundraising events? What is important to take into 2010?