Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2006

Combining aspects of animation, game development, puppetry, graffiti, fan fiction, and improvisational theater into a moving image art form, machinima represents the latest frontier of digital popular culture. AmaBe Cheeky stars in this one with Zeke Poutine, In Kenzo and the janjaweed of Camp Darfur. in kenzo, machinimatographer~

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JUNE 20, 2007

Like in January when Mia Farrow spoke in Second Life about Darfur at a virtual event sponsored by the U.S. At first I really didn't want to. I already spend way too much time online, but then there started to be events that I wanted to check out. Holocaust Memorial Museum's Committee on Conscience.

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OCTOBER 25, 2007

Here’s an example in the channel page: 24 Hours for Darfur Channel Here’s an example on the standard video page: 24 Hours for Darfur standard view If you are a 501(c)3 it’s a no-brainer to sign up. What we don’t know yet is whether it will work.

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OCTOBER 25, 2007

Here’s an example in the channel page: 24 Hours for Darfur Channel Here’s an example on the standard video page: 24 Hours for Darfur standard view If you are a 501(c)3 it’s a no-brainer to sign up. What we don’t know yet is whether it will work.

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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. We just sent this out a few hours ago, so things are still developing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2006

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. They will be developing virtual pledge cards, sponsorships, teams, and other features. But can games like Second Life be a useful tool for social change?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2006

The website helps networks of small-scale philanthropists develop and fund solutions to pressing social problems." Stop the genocide in Darfur, that???d " Peter gives us analysis of the landscape: Building a community of small-scale philanthropists sounds like a novel idea. Big or small.it t matter???just just plant one tree.

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MARCH 12, 2008

Home • About Us Mission Team News Partners Careers • Services Overview Interactive Marketing Video Web Design and Development • Clients Clients List Client Login • Resources Overview Events YouTube for Nonprofits Guide to Online Video Video FAQs Our Blog • Contact POSTED BY Michael Hoffman MAR 12, 2008 Why do people give charity?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

We've been developing Miradi for three years together with the Conservation Measures Partnership (which includes groups like The Nature Conservancy and the World Wildlife Fund), and began beta testing the software in 2007. People in developing countries will get further discounts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

I think to be successful, you also need to follow a systematic process for developing your social marketing strategy. You can create or simulate an experience that can evoke an emotional response from a visitor, as they have done with Camp Darfur. For example, rather than starting by saying ???We

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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. What advice do you have for nonprofits that are considering developing their own video content? Nonprofits should use YouTube to upload their content.

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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. What advice do you have for nonprofits that are considering developing their own video content? Nonprofits should use YouTube to upload their content.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 21, 2008

We also have a student division: STAND , which has more than 850 chapters around the world, and the students in those chapters actively organize and mobilize their communities and schools to pass legislation, to fundraise, and to really make more noise about genocide in Darfur and genocide in general.

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JUNE 25, 2007

The session, presented by Cultural Connections , focused on museums, exhibits, and programs specifically developed to inspire visitors to take action in their own lives to create social change. The US Holocaust Memorial Museum includes a Committee on Conscience , which advocates and educates about acts of genocide around the world.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2011

They worked with an agency to develop a series of ads that jived with the company’s sense of humor, their passion for raising awareness about Tibet and the Brazilian Rainforest coupled with discounts of Tibetan food in Chicago and Brazilian bikini waxes in NYC. Next in the line of fire – Groupon.

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JANUARY 5, 2007

The Exploratorium did the solar eclipse, and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum is doing all kinds of programs around Darfur. But if a museum really committed to developing a space in a virtual world, there are so many other physical things to explore. How do you measure success of a project like this in Second Life?

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MAY 3, 2011

Before coming to M+R, Steve served as the Managing Director for Internet Communications at Amnesty International USA, where he developed an email strategy that nearly tripled Amnesty’s list in less than three years and helped grow Amnesty’s online fundraising program, even in the midst of the September 2008 stock market crash.

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AUGUST 31, 2010

Imagine a Jewish girl, selling Challah bread on a college campus in America to help support black Muslims in Darfur. Efrat Ben-Dor Erez, NPTech Israel. This amazing project , initiated by Eli Winkelman, came to life with the help of PresenTense.

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OCTOBER 22, 2007

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. Developing custom Facebook apps may be the way to go, as already discussed on this blog. This shows the viral potential of raising awareness in the social networks.

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MAY 25, 2007

If you can make money you will spend a lot of time and effort developing really cool applications that can integrate into Facebook, which will keep people on our pages longer, which will attract more users and so on. So Facebook said go and develop. And they opened up their own development tools to the developers.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 23, 2006

Coming from a background in developing and implementing programs, it was a challenge to shift to the operations side of the non-profit world. On the other hand, some politicians may care a great deal about improving human rights abuses or ending the violence in Darfur, but don’t act because they don’t have constituent backing.

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