Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

It is intended to inspire actions like contributing to charities, educating one’s children about giving, volunteering for a nonprofit, or to encourage people in their networks to do the same. This campaign provides resources, a theme, and asking all who participate to unleash their creativity to spread generosity. What about you?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2014

Is success of the Ice Bucket Challenge a happy accident for ALS and the people who suffer from the disease or is the first example of the power of crowd charity? Can other nonprofits reproduce it? My answer: yes and no. The Ice Bucket Challenge has raised over $88.5 What can or cannot be reproduced? (1)

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 5, 2010

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!

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2014

Instead of only sharing my website address, it''s nice to have something people can take with them and reference later on. Nathan : My primary target for my writing is people who have responsibility for managing other people or managing specific outcomes - as well as people who aspire for greater things.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 29, 2010

The WEF is all about having a critical mass of incredible people. Mousa and I talked about his dream of helping centers for blind people in Iraq get the tech equipment they need. This enables great conversations: the serendipity effect is huge.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 30, 2010

I ran into Brian Behlendorf, one of Benetech’s board members, and he gave some very constructive feedback on the city software idea, along with pointers to a couple of people I should talk to in the eGov software space. I also got to talk to Pablos because he knew Brian, and ask about ideas that might be worth licensing for social purposes.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 13, 2009

A: There are a lot of people these days who want to help other people out. People working with each other. Other people are good at other things. The administration is trying to scale up grassroots democracy, people in the White House like Vivek Kundra, [ two names I missed ], Brian Behlendorf. Simplicity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2007

Good Magazine as its tagline says is for "people who give a damn" and describes itself as a publishing platform to "change the world." Hands On Network brings people together to strengthen communities through meaningful volunteer action. people on where their food comes from and how our food choices affect.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

They whisk people away from their everyday lives and connect them with ideas that can revolutionize how they think. Many of the issues they champion have taken a backseat in people’s minds this year, as our nation’s attention has been captured by one shocking event after another. Stories are windows into new worlds.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

The Iraq War was raging. site in which people could interact and collaborate with each other to create a virtual community. What People Were Saying. In the beginning, TechSoup’s Marnie Webb, Daniel Ben-Horin, and Billy Bicket created NetSquared to "remix the web for social change." " The year was 2005.

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2014

to report on Tech for Good trends and also to find out how things are going in one of the most challenging areas of philanthropy: providing much needed help and support to people in the Muslim world. One of the things TechSoup does well is to bring relevant tools and resources to the needs that people have on the ground. Dara Westling.

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Forum One

MAY 17, 2010

One year later, April 26-27, 2010, more than 260 people from over 60 countries gathered in Washington, DC for an unprecedented two-day Entrepreneurship Summit hosted by President Obama and the U.S. In his speech, he pledged to "create a new corps of business volunteers to partner with counterparts in Muslim-majority countries."

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2008

Each blogger will lead an online community focusing on a different social, political, or environmental issue, maintain a daily blog covering news and offering commentary, convene leading nonprofits and activists working on the issue, and help people translate their interests and passions into concrete action. blogging job activism

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2014

When people know how they''re supposed to contribute, and what their contribution means, then they are much more likely to contribute effectively. Jake Wood is cofounder and CEO of Team Rubicon and a former Marine sniper with tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. My coach, Barry Alvarez, used to yell "know your role." It certainly did for me.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 24, 2007

Reem talks about how the company balances the triple bottom line of profits, people and planet. For a long time, in my family, we had discussed importing a dry desert line called "Numi", in Arabic, that we drank as kids in our native Iraq. In terms of people, we have about 17 SKUs that are fair-trade certified by TransFair.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

GamesThatGive is going to have a huge influence on the charitable giving space for a few reasons: 1) People are already playing casual games, in big numbers, and for long periods of time. Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans Association. GamesThatGive is simply seeking to tap into that existing behavior to help raise money for charity. -

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See3

MAY 25, 2007

Gore suggested that if the net was as powerful six years ago as it was today, that maybe we wouldn’t have had so many yes votes for the Iraq war because the press would have been pressured to tell the American people more directly that Iraq was not responsible for 9-11 (which 70% of Americans believed and 50% still believe.)

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

That’s the day Iraq invaded Kuwait, an event that would start a domino effect that has lasted more than 20 years. But most of all I met some of the most amazing people I will ever know like: Private Curtis Strange from Baltimore; Private Dana Gordon from New York; PFC Kurt Feurst from Illinois and the list goes on.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

We can gather information and reach people with a speed and frequency unimaginable even in the 1980s. But to make these connections, people need access. When it comes to destinations, Hitwise USA, which tracks online traffic, found horseracing sites to be the number one online category for people over 55. and other countries.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 7, 2007

The same people who produced "Going Within", 49th Parallel Productions , have also created Not Just a Number , a community journalism project for The Oakland Tribune which focuses on the topic of violence and violence prevention. Last year Oakland's homicide rate reached a five-year high of 148 people. Mother's Day peace

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2007

Last year I interviewed 12 people for the Big Vision Podcast and 4 of them were people of color. 2008 resolution New Year activist activism Photo of sign from 2003 Iraq war protest by me. Power is on my Big Vision Podcast dream interview wish list, if anyone knows her and can provide me with an introduction.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2011

This fall, POGO partnered with the Government Accountability Project (GAP) to launch an online campaign in support of Gayl after he lost his security clearance for exposing the need for some lifesaving equipment needed in Iraq. Nearly 4,000 people took action. What is the biggest "source" for people who wind up unsubscribing?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 28, 2006

Hamid, the Founder and Director of New Horizon for Woman, was particularly moving: "To all sisters and to all friends, What you hear from the media is little of the chaotic situation in Iraq. My people have lost hope and faith in everything. The reality is more tragic in Baghdad; killing and kidnapping take place day and night.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

A Guest Beneblog by Anita Gohdes, Jeff Klingner, Megan Price and Patrick Ball The recent release of almost 400,000 secret US military files on the war in Iraq through Wikileaks has attracted wide media coverage. Most of these previously-unknown deaths occurred in small incidents, in which 1-3 people were killed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2007

. - although the time frame is closer to 5 or 6 years from now (and I think it was Gartner who said that by 2010 or 2011 pretty much everyone is going to have a "Second Life" in a 3D Virtual World -I wrote about it in More people leading 3D virtual lives online ) due to hardware and platform restrictions that prevent a wider adoption now.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 27, 2008

But it’s very interesting to think about how the next administration (and governments in general) could use technology in ways to enlighten and educate people in ways that match our changing lifestyles. First of all, anytime I hear “pervasive” matched with “politics”, I’m happy. Session on Does web 2.0

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 20, 2021

People communicate in words, with expressions, and with gestures. Email is a distant third choice because people tend to respond more formally in writing. During her career, she’s produced for CNN International, served as a humanitarian spokesperson in Iraq, and led award-winning nonprofit and corporate communications teams.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2008

"I think that people have long associated feminism with older white women and the idea of bringing that back to women of color, and bringing it back to young women of color and asking them what it means is an exciting time for me." The baby boomers are retiring and young people are kind of coming up into that movement.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta). Facebook || Twitter || YouTube || LinkedIn || Flickr. It Gets Better Project. Because life begins after high school and it really does get better. Facebook || Twitter || YouTube || Google+ || LinkedIn. Facebook || Twitter.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

I love referring people to you. And I’m guessing people want me to pipe down. I mean, who doesn’t want more time and more money and more people and more skills and more expertise and more influence, right? So more than 80% of all this money that’s donated to charities comes from people, comes from people.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 20, 2011

Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta). Facebook || Twitter || YouTube || LinkedIn || Flickr. It Gets Better Project. Because life begins after high school and it really does get better. Facebook || Twitter || YouTube || Google+ || LinkedIn. Facebook || Twitter.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 13, 2009

Earlier this year, the New Museum and Creative Time commissioned a traveling piece by artist Jeremy Deller called "It Is What It Is: Conversations About Iraq." Both times, the central square in which it was situated was well-trafficked with people enjoying art, hanging out with friends, and working.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Serving as a geographical and cultural bridge between Europe and the Middle East, Turkey is a country that shares borders with both Syria and Iraq (not to mention another six * countries). In addition to Syria and Iraq, these are Bulgaria, Greece, Georgia, Armenia, Iran, and the Azerbaijani exclave: Nakhchivan. (If

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

How the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America is using the web to bring back together their band of brothers and sisters. The Tools Don’t Create Strong or Weak Ties, Stories and People Do. There are stories that people want to share and stories that people want to hear. The examples are there, too.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

The conference title makes most people think it deals with technology, servers, and computers, but the real buzz of the conference is using new social media tools for fundraising and publicity, in short, how to communicate effectively. " He noted how readers expect him to write things they agree with. Blogs Build Transparency.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

The arts are a wonderful way to make a difference in the world because they are fun, engaging, and oftentimes help you to tell stories, all key elements to attracting and keeping people involved in a cause. Just an fyi (: Photo taken by me at March 2003 Iraq War protest in Oakland, CA creativity activism art film craft photography music.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 13, 2009

We work in countries like Congo, Rwanda, Sudan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo, among others. Whatever all the metrics of success that people use to measure themselves; the day we lose our love, and our authenticity and sincerity towards the mission of the organization, we will lose much more than that. We will lose our success.

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