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How Are Your 2008 Activist Resolutions Going?

Have Fun - Do Good

Read Darfur Diaries by Aisha Bain, Jen Marlowe and Adam Shapiro. Watched Darfur Now. Made some changes in my work life to give me more space for creative projects and down time. Continue reading and learning about why genocide happens, and what I can do to encourage the United States to be a part of the solution.

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Best of Beth's Blog 2008: Finding The Top Ten Posts In Less Than Five MInutes!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I use a variety of tools for this analysis, including Google Analytics, Feedburner subscriber counts, and manually tracking comment to post ratios (typepad doesn't have a nifty plugin like wordpress to automate that grunge work) A tool that use to evlauate my content is PostRank. 10 will help a Cambodian Youngster Get A Better Life.

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Nedra Weinreich: Social Marketing Guru

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As you'll note from that article, Nedra has also been exploring Second Life and we bumped into each other at the TechSoup space there where we completed our interview. A wonderful side benefit is all of the new friends and colleagues I have met as a result of writing the blog and commenting on other blogs. Unfortunately, the term ???social

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(Not a) Game Friday: Virtual Worlds 101

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Today, an interview with Sibley Verbeck (Hathor's his virtual name), founder/CEO of the Electric Sheep Company , which does experience design for real-world companies in virtual worlds including Second Life. Why would they want a Second Life presence? It’s a little disjointed, but the key points are: 1.

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The Move On Model: Inciting Visitor Social Action

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Let’s start with some examples (many of which were also presented at AAM): The Monterey Bay Aquarium maintains an Ocean Action group that visitors can join to get involved in advocacy for marine life and conservation. Their website includes a clear, concise "What Can I Do?" They balance the rhetoric with the opportunity.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Oxfam America and HSUS: Not just Talking about Social Media, Using It

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84% of people comment, 82% message others, and 39% create content. Tim says MySpace is not good for fundraising, although we have seen some examples of orgs running successful fundraising campaigns, such as Dollars for Darfur. On Second Life : Tim and Carie both say stay away. Funny, another negative note on Second Life.

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Martin Luther King Day - Let Freedom Ring

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His comments for Martin Luther King Day are included below, and the link to his blog above will take you to the half dozen or so essays he does annually. Others might sacrifice their life for you; you must be prepared to do the same for them. Stan has years of commercial security expertise, and yet he turns out to be a gifted writer.