Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2011

Two recent advocacy victories this week by PETA and my former colleagues at Defenders of Wildlife are a great reminder of a little practiced truth: organizations are seeing greater (and often easier) success in leveraging online advocacy to change policy at the state and local level.

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Care2

MAY 8, 2009

All Care2 terms of service and privacy policies apply. Plus LinkedIn and Twitter are hugely popular and hugely utilized; why not take advantage of that instead of competing against it? May 11, 2009 | Caitlin Jennings Copyright © 2008, Care2.com All rights reserved.

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Social Media Studies Facebook Raise 41

Forum One

MAY 5, 2008

Chris Wolz manages this blog with the help of his colleagues at Forum One Communications, a web strategy/technology firm in the Washington DC area.

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Forum One

AUGUST 5, 2008

Chris Wolz manages this blog with the help of his colleagues at Forum One Communications, a web strategy/technology firm in the Washington DC area.

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Influence Social Media Internet Web 52

Care2

JUNE 13, 2009

Marlow’s study sheds even more light on the Washington Post article that said Facebook Causes are not raising much money for nonprofits. Less than 50 of the 179,000 groups on Causes have raised $10,000, and just two – The Nature Conservancy and Students for a Free Tibet -- have raised more then $100,000.

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Facebook Social Media Advocacy Online 50

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 22, 2009

Dr. McGonigal’s CFM lecture on “Gaming the Future of Museums” (given at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. We have also worked with James Chung and Susie Wilkening of Reach Advisors to create a somewhat more conservative forecast of the future of museums in twenty-five years: Museums and Society 2034: Threats and Potential Futures.

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M+R

AUGUST 25, 2021

The energized movement to address—and often remove— memorials to individuals who held slaves in bondage or committed treason in defense of slavery, led efforts to seize the land of Indigenous people, or advanced racist policies. This is particularly important to remember when creating messaging for “moderate” or “conservative” audiences.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 18, 2007

We have been doing this work for six years now, and we started with an open training for 20 friends of mine from Washington D.C., I think what he meant by that is that if we are to win some of the policy issues we are challenged by currently here in the beginning of the 21st century, there needs to be a new way of organizing ourselves.

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Care2

AUGUST 29, 2008

Perlmutter, who was a recent guest on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart , sat down in Washington in early August for an interview with Care2’s Clint O’Brien to talk about how blogging is reshaping media and changing the way citizens think about politics and social causes. All Care2 terms of service and privacy policies apply.

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Social Media Advocacy Saudi Arabia Journal 28

Care2

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

Perlmutter, who was a recent guest on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart , sat down in Washington in early August for an interview with Care2’s Clint O’Brien to talk about how blogging is reshaping media and changing the way citizens think about politics and social causes. All Care2 terms of service and privacy policies apply.

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Social Media Advocacy Saudi Arabia Online 28

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

The audience was also more male than female (60%, according to one estimate), certainly more liberal than conservative (at one point someone asked how many Republicans were in the audience and only 10 people raised their hands, out of 1000+!), and disconcertingly white.

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