Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

In February 19th, Joel Comm has organized an event called " Tweetathon " on Twitter to promote and sell copies of his new book, Twitter Power: How to Dominate Your Market One Tweet at a Time and help a nonprofit that supports children in Africa, China, and India. The Water is Life project got underway to help children in Kenya last November.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

ChristinasWorld : building a network of awareness is different from campaigning: 1) campaigning is about mobilizing action toward specific objectives . Good campaigns move away from awareness 2 spur action. Good campaigns move away from awareness 2 spur action. network building (awareness, trust) and campaigning (action).

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 1, 2006

When Oxfam contacted Rowse they said that Blogging for Chickens was, "one of the more interesting fundraisers that they’ve seen." View the National Memorial for the Mountains on Google Earth. Watch a movie about mountaintop removal on YouTube. Each flag represents a mountain that has been destroyed.

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Care2

JUNE 1, 2009

I work for a well-established non-profit (organization has been around over 100 years) and we dont have "online contacts" for most of our donor base and still received a lot of checks in the mail. Even if you think your past is safe from change, ask yourself how soon Google will be replaced? My 2 cents.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 3, 2022

Google’s use of microwork for a US Department of Defense initiative, Project Maven, is a case in point. Partly to keep costs low, but also to keep the project private, Google contracted the services of Figure Eight (now Appen), a microwork site that specialises in data annotation.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

When Sophia contacted me and asked if I would talk here, my first thought was, "You know, I could talk here, but I just know so many amazing women who have stories that I want to share." The homicide rate, as people are probably aware of, has just really increased in the last few years in Oakland, where I live.

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