Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2006

LIve blogging from the Serious Games Conference - usual disclaimers apply to typos, etc. Darfur Is Dying was the result. The founder and creator of game consulted people in Darfur. Darfur is Dying was created at last year's GFC. Will clean up later. How can we take it into the digital world. 700,000 have played the game.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 19, 2008

She was looking for presenters for a conference and she just pointed me over to Ethan Zuckerman's insightful analysis of Facebook activism. moving from Darfur to Burma to whatever cause is next. Ethan's notes points to the long-term benefits (and challenges) of converting some of the people involved into long term supporters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2006

Susan Tenby from TechSoup demos the virtual TechSoup Office during the Netsquared Conference while Ruby Sinreich and Deborah Finn (Cyber-Yenta) blogged about it. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2006

The Darfur is Dying game probably caught your attention. There is a also conference taking place called " Digital Games for Social Change " in June in NYC. It caught mine as I'm interested in the role of play in problem-solving, what ever the scope of the problem. promote awareness. educate their audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2007

net/OneMinute Prior to this action, we used Collactive twice to promote particular op-eds (one in the Boston Globe and one in the LA Times) that aligned with our positions on how to stop genocide in Darfur. now off to integrate it into my slides show for my session at the Bridge Conference on Tuesday. Thanks Ivan.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 21, 2008

That's the question the Nonprofit Technology Conference session, "The Seven Things Everyone Wants: What Freud and Buddha Understood (and We're Forgetting) about Online Outreach," tried to answer. Two of their staff members recently returned from Darfur and are putting together a video to raise awareness about it. Maybe you did a walk.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 4, 2007

She also won the 2005 National Magazine Award for Reporting for her article, " Dying in Darfur ," in The New Yorker. Achtenberg and Demetria Martinez co-taught Writing for Social Change at the Taos Summer Writers Conference last year. It was co-founded by two literary agents, Elizabeth Pomada and Michael Larsen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2006

In-world speakers from nonprofits who spoke about their work included Evonne Heyning from Camp Darfur, Barry Joseph from Global Kids , Lori Bell from the Library Alliance , and Marc Sirkin from LLS. Jeska Linden , Community Manager for Linden Labs, has the mike in her hand, while her avatar is behind the podium in Second Life.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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Care2

OCTOBER 29, 2007

Voters are encouraged to vote for as many groups as they can in order to generate a comprehensive peace platform that encompasses the issues that are most important to each person, whether it’s the war in Iraq, nuclear weapons, Darfur or global conflict.

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MARCH 12, 2008

… …Last year, Princeton University held a conference at which List, Croson, Andreoni and others who study charitable giving got together with fund-raisers from Africare, the National MS Society and elsewhere. Matching gifts were another good example. People figured that they worked, because — well, how could they not?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

You can create or simulate an experience that can evoke an emotional response from a visitor, as they have done with Camp Darfur. Other in-world possibilities include things like virtual one-on-one counseling, conferences, protests, benefit concerts, education centers, contests ??? you name it and I bet it will eventually be done.

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AUGUST 16, 2008

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. There are some great examples of nonprofits that are doing an excellent job with online video.

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Care2

JULY 14, 2008

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. There are some great examples of nonprofits that are doing an excellent job with online video.

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JUNE 25, 2007

I spent Saturday in beautiful Monterey, ocean pounding outside the window of a conference room, where about 40 museum folks were pondering a question more elusive than the origin of the waves: can museums change the world? Their website includes a clear, concise "What Can I Do?"

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 22, 2015

I don’t know about you, but I’m more excited for this year’s conference than I have been for any in years past. Maybe it’s because there’s a heightened focus this year on making it a conference for the entire philanthropic industry. He won his second Pulitzer in 2006 for his columns on Darfur.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

Marnie Webb offers more post conference call reflections. DEMO 07 NpTech Bytes: DEMO 07 is a conference focused on cutting edge and emerging technology, mostly for the business sector. Some blog posts about the conference tagged with nptech can be found here , here , here , and here. Check it out.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 23, 2006

I came across her work while researching examples of nonprofits using the social web for social change for NetSquared and am looking forward to meeting her in person when she speaks at the NetSquared Conference next week. After reading the interview, Heddy has asked that I modify some of her answers.

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