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Support IPPF’s mobile health clinics and teams in Haiti!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

  These mobile health unit teams, consisting of medical doctors, nurses, and volunteer staff, have extensive experience in working with Haitian immigrants living in the Dominican Republic.   Yes, we have been using Face Book and Twitter to get the word out to contacts there.   How can people contribute?

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Lessons Learned From A Twitterthon

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So this year I DM’d and emailed my best contacts well ahead of time and asked if they would help retweet before the event and the day of the event. For 09/09/09, I spent a lot of time contacting digital media and got some excellent coverage including on Mashable.com. 6. People love information. 11. Major in media.

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