Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Be A Voice for Darfur is an excellent example of multi-channel campaign designed to bring attention to the appalling genocide in Darfur. The genocide in Darfur continues - now in its sixth year and at the price of nearly half a million lives. Most importantly, you can influence others to stand up and be a voice for Darfur.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2008

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. Want to create the premier online space for your issue and become a leading voice for social action? Positions are part-time and paid.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

There’s these kids sitting at the other lunch tables in our global cafeteria. Here’s what’s pissing me off: The reason I have to fight every time to do these stories [like Darfur] is because the truth is that it’s hard to get the majority of Americans…to care. ” (not in video). Doing good isn’t our job, it’s everyone’s.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2006

Rik wrote a great post this called Global Poverty Death Counter: good cause, @!#(*@() implementation (Rik used another word in the headline, but I don't any trackback spam). Educate about your cause. The event will also feature a virtual replica of "Our Walls Bear Witness - Darfur: Who Will Survive Today????,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 19, 2008

Several months ago my colleague Mary Joyce (who I met at the Global Voices Summit in London in 2005 ) and who is now at the Berkman Center pinged me and asked if I knew any digital activists in Southeast Asia. moving from Darfur to Burma to whatever cause is next. serial activists???,

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 21, 2008

Think about the last time you did something for a cause. You supported a cause because of how it made you feel." 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. *

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

Use a personal "ask" - start small with your ask, even if its as low as $10 - youll get more Video can be a great way to make your cause more personable to potential donors - you dont have to spend a fortune on them, either People love to talk about themselves - let them. Their creativity may inspire others. Is It Worth It?

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