Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Ivan says their organization's social networking initiatives have been successful in building the "brand" of an anti-genocide constituency.

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JUNE 15, 2007

The Time Warner building and the big glass windows overlooking Columbus Circle are super classy. 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. It was an amazing event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2006

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. A game on how to build a movement and be strategically planned. While you are trying to build your movement, the AI of the machine is looking for your weaknesses.

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OCTOBER 1, 2007

LOLnptech: Comic Relief for the Nonprofit Technology Community said I could pick my favorite one of their posts for the Carnival so I picked the image above from They Want Me to Build Them a Facebook Widget.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2008

Some are focusing on capacity building and providing last minute advice on getting the most out of the current giving season. Be A Voice for Darfur is a petition and awareness campaign designed to bring attention to the appalling genocide in Darfur. Here's one for you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 19, 2008

moving from Darfur to Burma to whatever cause is next. s not neccesarily the tool for building an activist base.??? 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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MARCH 21, 2008

Two of their staff members recently returned from Darfur and are putting together a video to raise awareness about it. They are collecting questions from supporters about Darfur to include in the video. * . * Oxfam has used Flickr petitions successfully in several campaigns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2006

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. Right now the office is just a cool place to hang out, but the group members are meeting to brainstorm ideas and build informaiton kiosks. Is it worth for nonprofits to invest?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2006

They are still building out the content on the site and there is a growing list of nonprofit recipients. " Peter gives us analysis of the landscape: Building a community of small-scale philanthropists sounds like a novel idea. Stop the genocide in Darfur, that???d Big or small.it t matter???just just plant one tree.

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OCTOBER 29, 2007

Voters are encouraged to vote for as many groups as they can in order to generate a comprehensive peace platform that encompasses the issues that are most important to each person, whether it’s the war in Iraq, nuclear weapons, Darfur or global conflict. The polls close at midnight on Halloween. What’s in your peace platform?

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MARCH 12, 2008

It’s easy to imagine that the academic research may eventually serve as the building blocks for a unified theory of how to raise money. Hollywood celebrities have become central players on deeply political issues like development aid, refugees and government-sponsored violence in Darfur.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

So, for example, while a rational reason for breastfeeding might be that it provides beneficial nutrients and antibodies, a campaign to promote the practice might be more effective if it builds on a woman???s You can create or simulate an experience that can evoke an emotional response from a visitor, as they have done with Camp Darfur.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 21, 2008

We also have a student division: STAND , which has more than 850 chapters around the world, and the students in those chapters actively organize and mobilize their communities and schools to pass legislation, to fundraise, and to really make more noise about genocide in Darfur and genocide in general.

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JUNE 25, 2007

section about the genocide in Darfur, which includes information about direct action, as well as connection to a variety of social networks, blogs, and content about the situation. I've been in many museums with informational labels about the ways they are conserving water, electricity, building sustainably, etc.

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JANUARY 5, 2007

The Exploratorium did the solar eclipse, and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum is doing all kinds of programs around Darfur. And exhibit designers, who are used to building in physical spaces, could do that—forget the restrictions and create something really hot. You could deconstruct objects.

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AUGUST 31, 2010

Imagine a Jewish girl, selling Challah bread on a college campus in America to help support black Muslims in Darfur. At the seminars, the fellows participate in an intensive tech treating session, and are provided with tech tools to enhance their projects, like weebly.com , which provides a free tool for building basic web-sites. . .

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OCTOBER 22, 2007

They recommend spending an hour per day building your network. 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. When she started the MySpace page , Carie literally requested friends one by one.

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MAY 25, 2007

Facebook is a hot social networking site and the open platform means that I can build an application and have members of Facebook spread this to all of their online friends. Their application is called Causes, and when you sign up you can pick from many causes, such as Save Darfur or One.org.

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JANUARY 18, 2010

Amazingly powerful insights on America and our role building this nation. -- Martin Luther King Day, 2010 Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. Martin Luther King, Jr. I remember when I discovered my own racism.

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OCTOBER 22, 2015

He won his second Pulitzer in 2006 for his columns on Darfur. Fundraising Dynamo: Awarded to a professional who understands the value of cultivating meaningful, long lasting relationships with supporters, and is adept at using his or her toolkit to understand what constituents need and how to build relationships with them.

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MAY 13, 2009

Greenpeace building up 90,000+ friends on MySpace and communicating with this audience in that space. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

A list of tools and resources for Democracy Building and Civic Engagement from the Berkman-Sunlight workshop. The nonprofit curmudgeon points to a new blog, a kindred spirt, the 501(c) Suck And, on the theme of being cranky, " Then There Was The Time: The People Who Build Our Websites Are Garbage People " blog. Check it out.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 23, 2006

In the US context, we are focused on building an awareness of issues involved in genocide and post-conflict peacebuilding as well as connecting American youth to our partners in other parts of the globe to plug them into cross-national, cross-cultural collaboration.

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