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Social Networks for Social Change: Ivan Boothe Knows What He Is Talking About!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So he cautioned me that some of the information might not be entirely up to date that he shared on listserv including a pointer to his awesome slide show with audio. For instance, when we first started organizing on Facebook in 2005, we found many existing groups on campuses working to end the genocide in Darfur.

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Nonprofits and Second Life and Other Games

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A few organizations in the nonprofit sector are exploring the power of the this type of gaming medium for social justice - take Camp Darfur for example. At the Netsquared Conference, I discovered that there are few organizations in the experimenting with metaverse games -- the early adopters. Is it worth for nonprofits to invest?

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Nedra Weinreich: Social Marketing Guru

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Her articles are informative, well written, and provide good context. What are their core values that you can tap into to motivate them to adopt healthy or pro-social behaviors? whether formal, like focus groups and surveys, or informal is imperative in order to create an effective strategy. s new information that???s

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President's Update: Summer 2008

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Kristen has been helping the TRC staff to develop a process that converts the qualitative information, contained in thousands of victim and witness testimonies, into data that can be used for quantitative analysis. Our newest human rights project is looking closely at the human rights challenges in Darfur.

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(Not a) Game Friday: Virtual Worlds 101

Museum 2.0

That is its primary strength, whereas the web’s is efficiently communicating information. It seems that the primary reasons museums have websites are to convey basic information about the museum and as a marketing mechanism for content.

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