Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 3, 2007

On Friday, I was on a "Darfur Activist" conference call produced by ENOUGH , the Genocide Intervention Network , STAND and the Save Darfur Coalition. Anyone could call in and hear an update about developments on the ground in Darfur and Congo, and upcoming legislation, events and campaigns. million nonprofits in the U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2009

Just as Catrina has done with their new campaign! In your status updates, use the news feed to raise awareness. The Save Darfur Coalition asks to organize events, vigils. One of the questions that came up during a discussion of concerns at the beginning of the day, was "We have 5,000 friends on Facebook, now what?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2007

My colleague, Ivan Boothe, who works with the Genocide Intervention Network and who is incredible smart about integrating social media into cause-related campaigns, pinged me about this reddit campaign. So in that case, we got a two-for-one -- both raising awareness of the issue and flooding a decisionmaker with an important column.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 21, 2008

Workshop leaders, Katya Andresen of Network for Good and the Non-profit Marketing Blog , and Mark Rovner of Sea Change Strategies and the Sea Change Strategies Blog believe that there are 7 Deep Human Needs that you need to remember when you are creating nonprofit campaigns. Effective campaigns always keep their audience's needs in mind.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 16, 2007

He began the talk by telling the story of the first time Google Earth was used for awareness raising by Rebecca Moore, Program Manager, Google Earth Outreach. Steve talked about how Google Earth can make the world a smaller place and add faces and places to statistics, like the USHMM's Crisis in Darfur layer does (pictured above).

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Care2

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

But when their campaigns offend, watch out for the mobs. Two recent viral campaign failures demonstrate the dangers of appearing callous to your target audiences and how quickly things can spin out of control if you don’t listen and respond quickly. When startups and corporations do good in the world, everyone loves them.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 21, 2008

Perhaps it is because my generation was raised reading The Diary of Anne Frank and watching dozens of movies about the Holocaust. As part of the anti-genocide moment, we raise both money and political will for civilian protection initiatives around the world. His campaign was successful. Someone should have done something.

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See3

OCTOBER 22, 2007

This shows the viral potential of raising awareness in the social networks. Tim says MySpace is not good for fundraising, although we have seen some examples of orgs running successful fundraising campaigns, such as Dollars for Darfur. Regardless, very few orgs (though some) have raised real cash via the Causes app.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 13, 2009

USHMM : Crisis in Darfur - Visualized destruction in Darfur that was being publicly refuted - 50% increase in traffic to site - International visits went from 23-52%. The tools and points she covered included: Social Networks. More examples can be found on the Google Earth Outreach page of nonprofit case studies.).

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