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The Save Darfur Coalition’s "Be A Voice For Darfur" - A Stellar Example of A Multi-Channel Campaign

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Be A Voice for Darfur is an excellent example of multi-channel campaign designed to bring attention to the appalling genocide in Darfur. Geoff Livingston and Qui Diaz are behind this brilliant multi-channel campaign that is using social media for social good. .

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Use Social Media to Reel in Big Fish Donors

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Use Social Media to Reel in Big Fish Donors Guest Post By Geri Stengel, Ventureneer. Note from Beth: We know that social media can bring in the small dollar donors, but what about larger gifts? Many nonprofits already use social media, including mobile, to raise money among individual donors.

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24 Hours for Darfur User-Generated Video Campaign

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

24 Hours for Darfur , a grassroots video advocacy campaign dedicated to ending the conflict in Darfur and promoting peace and security for the people living there. The campaign video will explain, but take a look at some of the ones submitted by people all over the world.

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Activating the Activists with Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Just as Catrina has done with their new campaign! The Save Darfur Coalition asks to organize events, vigils. jaygoldman @ kanter Rewarding verified offline actions with online social credit. Ironically, one of my Twitter followers suggested asking them nicely and giving them schwag. Create something to attend! chloevdc @ kanter.

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Second Life: Issue Awareness Raising Campaigns

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What is ironic is that the WDM has not learned to apply what they presumably have learned from their other campaigns into virtual space. Today, I got a report via the TechSoup Second Life listserv about an awareness-raising campaign for homeless children in Second Life - reported here , here and here. And not just fundraise.

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Changing the Present, Give Meaning, and Personal Fundraising Campaigns

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've come across two personal fundraising campaigns that use the metaphor of wishes, pay it forward, or gift economy and are aggressively incorporating social media techniques into their strategies. His campaign video is here. Stop the genocide in Darfur, that???d And then goes on describe the features. t matter???just

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Social Networks for Social Change: Ivan Boothe Knows What He Is Talking About!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Ivan is one of a small number of nonprofit early adopters in social media and social networks - he has a couple of years of experience under his belt - so his wisdom is priceless. 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.