Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2008

Want to create the premier online space for your issue and become a leading voice for social action? Change.org is launching a social action blog network this summer and is currently hiring a team of blogger/editors to help create a movement for change around the major causes of our time. Positions are part-time and paid.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

As I sat there, I was reminded again that societal change is not the domain of nonprofits or social entrepreneurs; it’s created by musicians, politicians, journalists, technologists and so many others. Are there tools we can create that help people tell their own stories in fun, personal, engaging ways that change the world?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

Last month, I turned my blog pink in support of Breast Cancer and in September, I put on a red t-shirt. between causes and people, both create an interesting strategic question for organizations that seems like a fruitful place for future investigation: how do you get those people involved? to support the monks in Burma.

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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. I created an avitar and did some exploring. But can games like Second Life be a useful tool for social change? Is it worth for nonprofits to invest?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2007

Breast Cancer Action. Save Darfur. It creates more of a community. Concern Worldwide UK. Corazon de Vida. Electronic Frontier Foundation. Handicap International. Human Rights Campaign. Impact Awards. Jobs With Justice. Katrina Stories. National Farmers Union. National Wildlife Federation. Medecins Sans Frontieres.

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Care2

AUGUST 16, 2008

You can create a video to explain your position on an issue thats currently in the news, or bring attention to an issue that perhaps should be, but isnt. One example is 24HoursforDarfur who has collected over 800 videos from celebrities, elected officials, and citizens urging Congress to do more about the genocide in Darfur.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

whether formal, like focus groups and surveys, or informal is imperative in order to create an effective strategy. When nonprofits and government agencies want to create change on a large scale, they???ve 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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