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Fashion and Passion for Your Cause: Wear it on Your Blog or Profile!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One particular quote jumped out at me, "The Facebook generation wears their causes like the way they wear their favorite fashion." to support the monks in Burma. to support the monks in Burma. If your an organization, how will you inspire evangelists for your cause? But that's not all. How do we inspire?

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Using SlideShare for Good: Examples

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Storytelling is a best practice for fundraising pitches and that's why I think SlideShare is a great tool for causes. The strategy is use positive photos. Other examples of using SlideShare for disaster relief or donations: Burma Cyclone Relief Effort It comes from the Web Strategist Blog, Jeremiah Owyang.

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Doing the Right Stuff Right for Human Rights

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

In many cases, Martus also helped users turn those first-hand accounts into evidence of abuse in order to advance their causes. You can read more about the many faces of the Martus user community and the impact that Martus has had on human rights groups , from Africa to Burma to Guatemala.

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Four Steps to Ease You Into Social Web Activism

Have Fun - Do Good

Some other do-good social networks you might want to try out are: Care2 , Change.org , Flickr (photos), Future5000 (youth), Meetup (events), Just Cause , myBLOC.net (young people of color), Razoo , TakingITGlobal (youth), Upcoming (events) and WiserEarth. Check out the photo "comments" on this Free Burma photo.

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Steve Bridger › Woodland walk

Steve Bridger

Filed under photos , unplugged. Tagged photos , walk. Redesigning Charity for the Digital Age Skip to content Home More about Steve Bridger UK Charities Twitter 100 Woodland walk Took the family on a magical walk yesterday afternoon in Clevedon Court Woods. There’s nothing that compares to the majesty of trees.

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NpTech Summary: Red T-Shirt Day - Supporting Monks, YouTube Nonprofit Channel, and Web2forDev Conference Reports

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by Villoks Many people around the world are supporting the Monks in Burma by wearing red t-shirts today or participating in vigils like this one in Cambodia outside the Burma embassy. So, while it may very difficult to find Internet content from Burma, it is getting onto the Internet. It isn't dumb dumb.

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Steve Bridger › Colalife: make it real

Steve Bridger

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