Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

social marketing,??? which has been used since the early 1970s to refer to a specific marketing discipline, is being hijacked to mean something else entirely with the rise of things like social network marketing. the same tools that companies like Apple or Nike would use.

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Museum 2.0

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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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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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 5, 2007

It seems like the real world museums that are starting to work in Second Life are pursuing the social interaction element of the platform through events. The Exploratorium did the solar eclipse, and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum is doing all kinds of programs around Darfur. I think we’re right on the cusp of a lot of that happening.

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See3

OCTOBER 22, 2007

Carie opened with an intro to social media. She says social networks are “not just a bunch of lonely teenage boys.” She notes that people really rely on social networks for influence on decision-making. They recommend spending an hour per day building your network.

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See3

MAY 25, 2007

Facebook is the second big social networking site behind MySpace. The big news in social networking and tech is the new open platform of Facebook. 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.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 13, 2009

The tools and points she covered included: Social Networks. A few key examples she gave on advocacy and nonprofit success in social networks included: MyBarackObama.com , a good example of this in action. Greenpeace building up 90,000+ friends on MySpace and communicating with this audience in that space.

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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 Network-Centric Advocacy blog says thank you to the Integration Proclamation that might help progressive organizations reach the Holy Grail: getting the technology groups use to work together! Check it out.

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