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The Save Darfur Coalition’s "Be A Voice For Darfur" - A Stellar Example of A Multi-Channel Campaign

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Be A Voice for Darfur is an excellent example of multi-channel campaign designed to bring attention to the appalling genocide in Darfur. The genocide in Darfur continues - now in its sixth year and at the price of nearly half a million lives. That's how it came to my attention). Darfur Voices. Team Darfur.

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Pros and Cons of Facebook Activism

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

moving from Darfur to Burma to whatever cause is next. I've written about this here ) It also makes me curious about the concept of "serial activists" and whether this is a by-product of rapid attention shifting. How do Facebook applications incorporate the ladder of engagement? serial activists???,

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Serious Games Initiative

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The Darfur is Dying game probably caught your attention. How can we quickly expand the application of computer-based. How do we identify and proactively deal with any social, ethical, and/or legal issues that might arise through the application. What existing and emerging game technologies (such as.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » YouTube for Nonprofits – Donations are Nice, but What About List Building?

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Here’s an example in the channel page: 24 Hours for Darfur Channel Here’s an example on the standard video page: 24 Hours for Darfur standard view If you are a 501(c)3 it’s a no-brainer to sign up. You can see the evidence in the mostly small donation totals in the Causes application. What do you think Holly?

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » YouTube for Nonprofits – Donations are Nice, but What About List Building?

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Here’s an example in the channel page: 24 Hours for Darfur Channel Here’s an example on the standard video page: 24 Hours for Darfur standard view If you are a 501(c)3 it’s a no-brainer to sign up. You can see the evidence in the mostly small donation totals in the Causes application. What do you think Holly?

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Washington Post: Fundraising Via Email Is Way More Effective than via Social Networks

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This same phenomenon caught our attention when Frogloop published the Long, Long Tail of Facebook Causes two years ago, analyzing the results of the (at that time) newly launched Facebook Causes application. In only 10 days, Save Darfur raised more than $415,000 through an email series.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Facebook Platform – Opening Up

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Widgets are little applications that live on some other page on the web, where the info in the widget comes from some server somewhere else. So, Amazon says, OK, we will create an application that allows people to publish book reviews right on their own Facebook profiles, fully integrated into Facebook, but also back into Amazon.