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Send March out with a blast to Congress

Judi Sohn

Eric spent 2 weeks in South Africa, then we went right in to Call-on Congress, C3 ’s annual grassroots training and lobby day. We’re still getting pictures posted, but here’s a link to some of them from Flickr. This year, we had 65 advocates in DC for the training March 22-25, and it was a fabulous experience.

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Winning at Pinning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The majority of the boards we saw were very much about lifestyle: pictures of pretty stuff, hot style, and cool design. Camfed has over 13,000 images on Flickr. For example, in the villages of rural Africa where Camfed works, local community members play an essential role in helping girls succeed in school.

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Guest Post on Care2 Frogloop: Designing Campaigns for Impact

Amy Sample Ward

The story here is of how 1 child dies of Malaria in Africa every 45 seconds. Photo credit: Flickr leehaywood. But how does it help you move closer to your goal? Story – The action is aligned with the story of “kiss Malaria goodbye&# but that is, ultimately, just a slogan. The next example, is 350.org

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Interview with Jonathon Colman: Social Media Secrets from a Green Geek

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

m also a returned Peace Corps Volunteer (Burkina Faso, West Africa), and am even now preparing to move from Washington, DC to Seattle immediately following a two-month fellowship in Australia. s taken us a long time to build up credible, authoritative profiles and groups on sites like Care2 , Digg , Facebook , Flickr , and StumbleUpon. ???

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International Organizations and Social Media: News, Engagement, and Social Data for Policy Change

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Twiplomacy : This site summarizes a global study of world leaders on Twitter and links to each country of the world with statistics and highlights of users (here’s Africa for example). The governments of more than three-quarters (77.7%) of the 193 UN member countries have a presence on Twitter.

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