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APRIL 29, 2008

Want to blog on an issue you are passionate about for an audience of hundreds of thousands of activists and nonprofit leaders? Change.org is launching a social action blog network this summer and is currently hiring a team of blogger/editors to help create a movement for change around the major causes of our time.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Several years ago I created the Cute Dog Theory, a node to a Nicolas Kristof quote about how puppies get more attention than dry statistics about Darfur. Ethan points out that the Web was invented so physicists could share research papers, but Web2.0 was invented because people want to share cute pictures of their cats.

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OCTOBER 17, 2008

October 15th was Blog Action Day , a day for bloggers, podcasters and vloggers to write about and raise awareness about an issue. Blog Action Day is a wonderful idea, but it feels too short to make a real impact. For the month of September, Natasha Maw read and blogged in an effort to create awareness, and raise funds for Darfur.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2007

" While technically, I'm probably way over the legal age limit to be included in the Facebook Generation, nonetheless I'm once again wearing one of my one of my favorite causes as fashion on my blog this month. Last month, I turned my blog pink in support of Breast Cancer and in September, I put on a red t-shirt.

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JUNE 15, 2007

After Clinton spoke we heard from Ann Curry from NBC news who was honored for her coverage of Darfur. Unlike 99% of her news colleagues, Ann has actually gone to Darfur, and more than once. A mix of wonkish policy speak, amazing knowledge of his subjects, and compelling stories of meeting people all over the world.

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DECEMBER 31, 2008

One of the things I've been wanting to do for a while is review my blog content for the year and select the "Top 10" posts or the "best of" posts. Once a year in June, I do an overall benchmarking and ROI analysis of my blog using particular metrics. Blogging Behind the Nonprofit Firewall: ROI Approach.

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OCTOBER 17, 2007

They've organized an international Olympic Torch Relay which began on August 9 in Chad, near the Darfur border, and will finish in China in January. They've organized an international Olympic Torch Relay which began on August 9 in Chad, near the Darfur border, and will finish in China in January. Claire of Free Aung San Suu Kyi!

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DECEMBER 21, 2006

While thousands of people board planes to visit family and friends during the holidays, Gabriel Stauring and Stacey Martino from Stop Genocide Now will be traveling to the Darfur/Chad border. Starting today, December 21st, they will share stories through daily blog entries and videos. via Beth's blog.

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JUNE 28, 2006

That's an excerpt from a speech given by Muadi Mukenge the Global Fund for Women's Program Officer for Africa, at the Darfur Day of Conscience. It was turned into a post for the Global Fund for Women's blog. Their blog includes excerpts from speeches, messages from their Executive Director, Kavita Ramdas, and letters from grantees.

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DECEMBER 12, 2006

Read more over at Wayne's blog. Amoration tackles a wide variety of creative ventures for corporations, like Telus and for a host of activist and nonprofit groups like Betterworld Island, a group which has created the powerful Camp Darfur simulation you'll hear Evonne mention in the interview. The opening is Thursday evening.

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AUGUST 1, 2012

An organization dedicated to “never again” a genocide — such as those in Europe, Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, and Darfur — must raise awareness and advocate with as much energy as it raises money. All departments of the organization need to know what the other departments are doing.

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DECEMBER 20, 2006

I just got an email from Stop Genocide Now alerting me that they're sending two citizen journalists back to the Chad/Darfur border for 14 consecutive days of reports starting Dec 21, 2006. You can follow the reports on their blog. They will file text, video, and photographic reports.

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OCTOBER 25, 2007

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. What we don’t know yet is whether it will work. Case Soup: Nonprofit Video Secrets Revealed!

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OCTOBER 25, 2007

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. What we don’t know yet is whether it will work. Case Soup: Nonprofit Video Secrets Revealed!

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JUNE 6, 2007

You can read my answer to the first question in my post on BlogHer, " BlogHers Act: We Need to Be A Witness for Darfur ". To have your ideas included in the BlogHer selection process, write a blog post about it, tag it Bloghers Act and Bloghersact , and put a link in the comments of this post by June 15th.

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JULY 2, 2008

Read Darfur Diaries by Aisha Bain, Jen Marlowe and Adam Shapiro. Watched Darfur Now. Continue reading and learning about why genocide happens, and what I can do to encourage the United States to be a part of the solution. What I've done: Read What is the What by Dave Eggers.

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JULY 7, 2009

Here’s what’s pissing me off: The reason I have to fight every time to do these stories [like Darfur] is because the truth is that it’s hard to get the majority of Americans…to care. ” (not in video). Tags: guest blogging. That is a huge mistake.” starts around 16:46). “I

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DECEMBER 9, 2008

There are many blog posts on the theme of 10 Ways for Nonprofits to Cut Costs and The Nonprofit Hard Times Survival Guide. Okay, if I start to round up and summarize everything else that's out there on the economy and nonprofits, I'm going to get so horribly depressed I won't finish this blog post. I'm not in denial. A recent post.

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OCTOBER 1, 2007

George Irish of Shake the Pillars posts about Amnesty International's "Get in Bed with Darfur" -Putting the Fun Into Human Rights Campaigning. Isabella Mori of Alphablogs.net suggests 10 Reasons Why Arts Organizations Should Have Blogs including to be, "a virtual gallery, museum, concert hall or book store."

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DECEMBER 5, 2006

Actress and activist Mia Farrow will discuss and answer questions about the worsening situation in Darfur and neighboring Chad at a virtual press event in Second Life. The event will also feature a virtual replica of "Our Walls Bear Witness - Darfur: Who Will Survive Today????,

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APRIL 10, 2009

The Save Darfur Coalition asks to organize events, vigils. Promote cross-platform: FB, LI, Twitter, email>blog>online poll/petition >offline events. Have a blog post on this topic? Deepen relationship through custom apps that improve on org activites (event fundraising, petitions). Create something to attend!

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JUNE 27, 2006

LIve blogging from the Serious Games Conference - usual disclaimers apply to typos, etc. 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. Will clean up later. How can we take it into the digital world. 700,000 have played the game.

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MARCH 12, 2008

Home • About Us Mission Team News Partners Careers • Services Overview Interactive Marketing Video Web Design and Development • Clients Clients List Client Login • Resources Overview Events YouTube for Nonprofits Guide to Online Video Video FAQs Our Blog • Contact POSTED BY Michael Hoffman MAR 12, 2008 Why do people give charity?

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JUNE 20, 2008

Amnesty International has a World Refugee Day Tool Kit that you can download, and provides recommendations for small events that you can organize at your home like a letter writing meeting, or a film screening of Chasing Freedom , Darfur Diaries , or Well-Founded Fear. Finally, World Refugee Day is also a day of celebration.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2006

In fact, there's an NTEN Affinity Group for video blogging where you can get advice, ask questions, or share what you know. AmaBe Cheeky stars in this one with Zeke Poutine, In Kenzo and the janjaweed of Camp Darfur. I'd also like to point out a video genre that has been used for social change: machimina.

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JANUARY 23, 2009

Continue learning about why genocide happens and how I can take action by following blogs like the Genocide Intervention Network , ENOUGH , Stop Genocide on Change.org , Darfur: An Unforgivable Hell on Earth , and Human Rights Now. My six 2008 Activist Resolutions went so-so: I did.

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JULY 8, 2007

I'm also highlighting this because it is a terrific example of using social news sites like Digg and Reddit o promote a cause (the Reddit guys were among my first video blog interviewees back in Nov. Then come back here. But there's strategy involved and a tool to help you execute it.

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JUNE 20, 2007

Like in January when Mia Farrow spoke in Second Life about Darfur at a virtual event sponsored by the U.S. At first I really didn't want to. I already spend way too much time online, but then there started to be events that I wanted to check out. Holocaust Memorial Museum's Committee on Conscience.

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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.

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JUNE 14, 2006

Susan Tenby from TechSoup demos the virtual TechSoup Office during the Netsquared Conference while Ruby Sinreich and Deborah Finn (Cyber-Yenta) blogged about it. A few organizations in the nonprofit sector are exploring the power of the this type of gaming medium for social justice - take Camp Darfur for example.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2008

For instance, when we first started organizing on Facebook in 2005, we found many existing groups on campuses working to end the genocide in Darfur. We use it to go where people are already organizing against genocide, and give them tools to do so effectively.

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MARCH 11, 2007

The Solidariti Blog is written by Priscilla Brice-Weller who has worked for the not-for-profit sector in Melbourne, Austraila. Her recent blog post, called web2.0 Some sites are using the blog feature to write about their organizations, while others haven't set it up. Save Darfur. goodness , caught my eye. happy browsing.

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APRIL 13, 2007

Crisis in Darfur enables more than 200 million Google Earth users worldwide to visualize and better understand the genocide currently unfolding in Darfur, Sudan. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Google Earth: "The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has joined with Google in an unprecedented online mapping initiative.

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DECEMBER 19, 2006

Last week I blogged about an Ipod/Toilet paper holder over at Netsquared. According to Liz Strauss, of the Successful Blog , in the week since his launch, he has received 15,000 hits and raised over $3,000 towards his goal from 123 contributors. They are challenging people to make it a million dollar blog post, with 1 million comments.

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APRIL 11, 2008

She started out writing about what she gave away on her blog, Manifesto , but after a week or so, decided to set up a 29-Day Giving Challenge social network so that other people could share the Challenge with her. One of my spiritual teachers, Mbali Creazzo, suggested that I try to give away 29 things in 29 days.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2008

moving from Darfur to Burma to whatever cause is next. The hope is that some percentage of the people involved with these groups could turn into long-term advocates, but Jamal characterizes many of the users as ???serial serial activists???,

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JULY 4, 2007

She also won the 2005 National Magazine Award for Reporting for her article, " Dying in Darfur ," in The New Yorker. You can subscribe to her blog here. You can check out Gayle's blog, Fruitful , here. It was co-founded by two literary agents, Elizabeth Pomada and Michael Larsen.

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