Nonprofit Tech for Good
FEBRUARY 24, 2013
With all the new tools out there to experiment with, why would individuals and brands want to start over on site with a bad brand name and tainted history? To me, this a colossal, baffling mistake on the part of Myspace.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
APRIL 10, 2009
How do we activate the online activists to take action offline?" I was not presenting, but decided to use Twitter crowd source some suggestions, screencapture them, and put those into my presentation later in the day. The Save Darfur Coalition asks to organize events, vigils. remind them that the tools they use can only go so far.
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
FEBRUARY 19, 2008
I joined the various Burma Facebook groups early on because my colleagues in Cambodia were involved from the beginning and documented some of the activism. She was looking for presenters for a conference and she just pointed me over to Ethan Zuckerman's insightful analysis of Facebook activism. The people who got involved weren???t
Have Fun - Do Good
JUNE 9, 2007
It isn't often that you can't wait to keep reading a book about genocide, but that is how it was while I was reading Not On Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond by Don Cheadle and John Prendergast. Darfur activism book Don Cheadle John Prendergast
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
SEPTEMBER 15, 2011
Several years ago I created the Cute Dog Theory, a node to a Nicolas Kristof quote about how puppies get more attention than dry statistics about Darfur. These same tools become very powerful in the hands of activists. Ethan points out that the Web was invented so physicists could share research papers, but Web2.0
Forum One
FEBRUARY 2, 2009
See the Darfur scores for example. Identify strategic constituencies: Use geographical research tools such as Google Maps to find citizen groups who might be concerned with underperforming politicians, such as identifying ethnic or university groups within a particular congressional district.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
NOVEMBER 12, 2008
We use it to go where people are already organizing against genocide, and give them tools to do so effectively. For instance, when we first started organizing on Facebook in 2005, we found many existing groups on campuses working to end the genocide in Darfur. So, what is the right fit to use a social networking strategy?
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