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Peace Games & International Efforts

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Darfur Is Dying was the result. The founder and creator of game consulted people in Darfur. Darfur is Dying was created at last year's GFC. Hope is that game will give attention to ways of domestic food production, immigration, explotation. How can we take it into the digital world. 700,000 have played the game.

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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. serial activists???,

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Serious Games Initiative

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Darfur is Dying game probably caught your attention. Part of its overall charter is to help forge productive links between the electronic game industry and projects involving the use of games in education, training, health, and public policy.

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Best of Beth's Blog 2008: Finding The Top Ten Posts In Less Than Five MInutes!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What's the sweet spot between personal productivity and social productivity? Be A Voice for Darfur: Great Example of A Multi-Channel Campaign. Microblogging Reports Worth Your Attention. Online Community Engagement Strategies. Vote for All These Awesome Nonprofit Panels At SXSW. Measuring the Value of Your Blog.

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Notes from Google Earth Outreach at Net Tuesday

Have Fun - Do Good

Last week, at NetSquared's San Francisco Net Tuesday Meetup, Steve Miller, Product Manager, Google Earth Outreach spoke to a room of 50+ social changemakers and web innovators about how nonprofits can use Google Earth Outreach for their work. Videos in the balloons will only work on Windows.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Why do people give charity?

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percent of the country’s gross domestic product, up from about 1.8 Hollywood celebrities have become central players on deeply political issues like development aid, refugees and government-sponsored violence in Darfur. I thought I’d share the latest post on the site which grabbed my attention: Why do people give charity? [.]

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