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Second Life: Issue Awareness Raising Campaigns

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But wanted to capture some quick thoughts related to a couple of recent awareness raising activities taking place in Second Life or recently launched. What is ironic is that the WDM has not learned to apply what they presumably have learned from their other campaigns into virtual space. It's been crazy busy last week and this week too.

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Changing the Present, Give Meaning, and Personal Fundraising Campaigns

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've come across two personal fundraising campaigns that use the metaphor of wishes, pay it forward, or gift economy and are aggressively incorporating social media techniques into their strategies. His campaign video is here. Stop the genocide in Darfur, that???d And then goes on describe the features. Big or small.it

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Notes from The Seven Things Everyone Wants: What Freud and Buddha Understood (and We're Forgetting) about Online Outreach

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Workshop leaders, Katya Andresen of Network for Good and the Non-profit Marketing Blog , and Mark Rovner of Sea Change Strategies and the Sea Change Strategies Blog believe that there are 7 Deep Human Needs that you need to remember when you are creating nonprofit campaigns. Effective campaigns always keep their audience's needs in mind.

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Nonprofits and MySpace Roundup Inspired By Solidariti

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

She is the online campaign coordinator for a national grassroots organization, ANTar , that supports indigenous people. It offers tips on how not-for-profits can effectively use MySpace for fundraising and/or campaigning. Human Rights Campaign. Rafiki's Children. Save Darfur. Her recent blog post, called web2.0

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Notes from Google Earth Outreach at Net Tuesday

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He began the talk by telling the story of the first time Google Earth was used for awareness raising by Rebecca Moore, Program Manager, Google Earth Outreach. Steve talked about how Google Earth can make the world a smaller place and add faces and places to statistics, like the USHMM's Crisis in Darfur layer does (pictured above).

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Making Stories Work for Your Org: What the Data Says

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In "The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty" , Princeton University professor Peter Singer famously highlights one study in which individuals who were shown a picture of a girl named Rokia and told her story were willing to give far more than when asked to help three million hungry children in Malawi. You'd be wrong.

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