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Blogger Uses Petition Site to Create Better Transportation for NY - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

I was busy starting my green communications consulting company, Aequus Green Communications , and working with clients to pay the bills and increase the portfolio. Six months later, and despite being delayed again by work, a new template for GBK, and eventually several additional green sites, is almost done.

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A Fresh Perspective—What NPOs Can Learn from a Makers Culture

NonProfit Hub

Obviously that’s not the case anymore, but they say history repeats itself. From bloggers and designers to excel gurus and website coders, every nonprofit has its own makers right within their walls. I spent my childhood building fortresses from K’nex, spaceships from Legos and sculpting blue and green snowmen from Play-Doh.

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Lisa Sonora Beam, The Creative Entrepreneur: How I Have Fun, Do Good

Have Fun - Do Good

The eleventh guest blogger in my have fun do good series is Lisa Sonora Beam. In 2000, she realized that she could use her marketing and advertising superpowers for good, and founded Digital Hive EcoLogical Design , the first communications firm to specialize in promoting green and social products and enterprises.

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Extra-organizational Activists & Nonprofits Using the Social Web for Their Cause

Have Fun - Do Good

As I mentioned last week, I am talking with a marketing class at New College's Green MBA program on Sunday about how nonprofits can use social media for marketing. Green LA Girl and City Hippy raise awareness about Fair Trade coffee by launching the Starbucks Challenge in October 2005. Goal: Make poverty history.

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Online Community Meetup: The Five Steps to Growing an Engaged Online Community

Tech Soup

Care2 provides visitors to their site green-living advice and the opportunity to act on behalf of the causes they care most about. Meanwhile, Care2’s blogging network is comprised of 80 bloggers writing compellingly about a multitude of causes that matter to its membership.

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I Like To Watch Feed

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The I LIKE TO WATCH tag (and feed) identifies provocative, proactive, or practical videos that feature sustainability leaders talking about solutions or what she describes as "Viral video and the bright green future." Mostly people who run green blogs I suspect. For me to see where my own true interests lie.

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How Much Time Does Web 2.0 Take?

Museum 2.0

When David explained that each of the Holocaust Museum’s myriad comment boards, blogs, and online forums is moderated by a staff member, the audience turned a little green. You can also have an extremely strange representation of yourself, as does the American Museum of Natural History. Absolutely.

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