Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2012

For example, a search for “ fallingwhistles ” (either in the Instagram app or on a 3rd party web viewer such as Statigram or Webstagram) user photos with the tag — typically featuring “whistleblowers” wearing the whistles sold by the nonprofit to raise funds for its campaign for peace in Congo .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

I want you, whether you’re in the Congo or Darfur or if you’re in Iran or if you’re in Tanzania, Kosovo…you shoot that story like it’s your mother, your brother, your sister, your father and your cousin and you tell that in that way because that’s actually the road, I think, to not only clarity and truth and understanding.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2007

He said he would more focus on the "death and destruction" in northern Uganda and Eastern Congo. He talked about Iraq, and said it was important, but there is enough media coverage of it all ready, and he feels nothing could be done in the short term.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

It's called Why Congo Matters. I think it is really cool that Tharum, a Cambodian Blogger, is mentoring a Danish blogger launching a climate change blog! Emily Troutman has just launched a new online art/journalism project with a social conscious. The Year That Changed the World from Michael Meyer was just published.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

In 2007, WildlifeDirect had 7 blogs in the Democratic Republic of Congo written written about a specific animal by a conservation professional. That donors in an age of social media, will come to your organization with the expectation of being full partners in your work, not just an ATM machine to be tapped when cash is needed. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

These blogs raised $350,000 to pay rangers salaries and help save mountain gorillas in the Virunga National Park. Says Paula, “Two years later, have over 70 blogs , donations have risen 4 fold, as has website visitation.

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