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

Nonprofit Tech for Good

What the best piece of advice you could offer nonprofits about social media, and online communications in general? 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).

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How to Create, Manage and Evolve Your Nonprofit Blog

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For example, one day I woke up and checked my email to find a proposed blog entry from a colleague in South Sudan — he'd written a poem, a very personal reflection about looking at the sunrise and farmers going out to their fields as he headed to work. Did I ever anticipate a poem? Certainly not.

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Doctors without Borders Podcast Creates Connection

Have Fun - Do Good

It was a little over 10 minutes long and talked about medical needs in Sudan, the ongoing challenges in Colombia and how people with HIV/AIDS in the developing world are being denied access to new "second-line" AIDS medicine. (My I just listened to the first podcast. It is the direct connection that is key.

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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

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One of those individuals is Paul Ohisa, and he's a refugee from Sudan. His dream was to go back to Sudan, and to contribute and help rebuild. And he's come up with his plan, his social entrepreneurship plan, to bring attention to the refugee plight and also to contribute to rebuilding in Sudan. What advice do you have for them?

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How They Did It: LWB Wins Facebook Causes Giving Challenge - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

We featured the Facebook Challenge in two issues of that. What advice would you give to other nonprofits interested in using Facebook or other social networks for donations? I think our main advice to other nonprofits on using Facebook for donations would be to have a definite strategy in place. How many afterwards?

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How They Did It: LWB Wins Facebook Causes Giving Challenge - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

We featured the Facebook Challenge in two issues of that. What advice would you give to other nonprofits interested in using Facebook or other social networks for donations? I think our main advice to other nonprofits on using Facebook for donations would be to have a definite strategy in place. How many afterwards?

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Bringing Women a Global Voice: Jensine Larsen, World Pulse

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I felt an emptiness inside, as a woman, that I wasn't hearing from the teachers that I wanted to about world issues. What advice do you have for people to navigate those growing pains? They came from Sudan, from Saudi Arabia, from all over, some of the most unheard places of the world. I'm a complete magazine and media addict.

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