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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: Women for Women International

Nonprofit Tech for Good

We currently have nearly 50,000 Facebook fans and posting there helps us reach the most people, though the focus of how we’re using Facebook is changing (more on that below). Who maintains your social media campaigns? Are they paid, full-time, part-time? That would be me! What is on your To Do List for 2011?

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Traveling Postcards: Interview with Founder, Caroline Lovell

Have Fun - Do Good

In Uganda, a group of young people made incredible, heartfelt postcards filled with glitter and cut up magazine pictures to send to women in the Congo. Education, healthcare, violence, lack of economic resources, trafficking, to name just a few. The more people who know about Traveling Postcards the better! Learn more!

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Guest Post by Stacey Monk: Dogooders Won’t Change the World (Alone)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Now don’t get me wrong, I love you people. An ecosystem where its members connect, interact, and support not just the people in their circles but people they ‘bump into’ based on some ‘random’ interest and connection. I hate it…It’s not the music that’s the best, it’s the music that the most people can stand.

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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

Have Fun - Do Good

Kjerstin Erickson is one of those people "shiny" people who lights up a room. Saturday, June 20th is World Refugee Day , and this year's theme is "Real People, Real Needs." We like to refer to it as a "people-powered" development process. Obviously, what's good about it is that you're empowering people.

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The Move On Model: Inciting Visitor Social Action

Museum 2.0

The Congo Gorilla Forest , is a special exhibition produced by the Wildlife Conservation Society at the Bronx Zoo. The US Holocaust Memorial Museum includes a Committee on Conscience , which advocates and educates about acts of genocide around the world. People don't need empowerment to make a difference; they need vehicles for action.

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Empowering Women Citizen Journalists: An Interview with Cristi Hegranes

Have Fun - Do Good

She went from being somebody's servant to somebody who when she walks down the street of her community, people stop her and shake her hand and thank her for the stories that she is telling, or ask, 'When are you going to interview me? The secondary goal is to provide better free, or fair information to people in these countries.

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Online Fundraising Site: How To Create A High-Performing Fundraising Website

CauseVox

These days, you don’t have to be tech-savvy to have a professional-looking campaign but you want to be sure that it makes a lasting impression and is effective at getting people to take action. Our brains are wired for visual information; people process images 60,000 times faster than words. to attract people to your campaign.