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Virtual Platforms for Good: Empowering Individuals

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Photo UgoTrade Blog. The Second Thoughts blog, in a post called " We Need A New Kind of Philanthropy " outlines ten ways a new kind of philanthropy could get started with the combination of social media and virtuality in worlds and games. I predict the same fate for Second Life and other 3D-Virtual Words.

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How They Did It: LWB Wins Facebook Causes Giving Challenge - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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The last two weeks of the contest, Amy and 10 others worked 8-10 hours a day blogging, emailing supporters, making phone calls, and recruiting teens and college students to help them towards gathering donations for the Cause. We also utilized our blog to get more people informed about Facebook Causes. Sometimes more!

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How They Did It: LWB Wins Facebook Causes Giving Challenge - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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The last two weeks of the contest, Amy and 10 others worked 8-10 hours a day blogging, emailing supporters, making phone calls, and recruiting teens and college students to help them towards gathering donations for the Cause. We also utilized our blog to get more people informed about Facebook Causes. Sometimes more!

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Cleaning Off My Desk for the New Year

Have Fun - Do Good

Teens as Good Samaritans The November/December issue of Psychology Today has a brief article called, "The Making of a Good Samaritan", about the benefits of community service requirements in schools. It was a huge success and it's now become an international drive , with toys and books going to children's hospitals all over.

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Groundswell Book Club Part 1: Listening

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It means seeking out people in their "natural habitat" of the social Web and paying attention to what they are blogging, writing, and saying about your institution. The majority of blog traffic mentioning the Exploratorium in the last month has focused on their coverage of the eclipse and a variety of Second Life initiatives.

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How DoSomething Transformed A Mistake Into Learning: Creating A Culture of Impact

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

million teen activists who had opted in to giving the organization their cell phone numbers and emails. The message was intended for Jewish teens who volunteering to collect canned goods during Thanksgiving for a Jewish organization. In this blog post by staff, they describe what they did to remedy the mistake.

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Book Club Part 3b: Talking Institutional Change with Elaine Gurian

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How can you change or adopt aspects of other types without losing your focus or mission? There are press releases from their reopening last year here.] Let’s say there's someone—a reader of this blog—an educator or designer or director or whoever—who wants to and is ready to change their museum. It did that more than once.

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