Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Be A Voice for Darfur is an excellent example of multi-channel campaign designed to bring attention to the appalling genocide in Darfur. The genocide in Darfur continues - now in its sixth year and at the price of nearly half a million lives. Most importantly, you can influence others to stand up and be a voice for Darfur.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 19, 2008

Several months ago my colleague Mary Joyce (who I met at the Global Voices Summit in London in 2005 ) and who is now at the Berkman Center pinged me and asked if I knew any digital activists in Southeast Asia. moving from Darfur to Burma to whatever cause is next. taking place across various social media sites, including Facebook.

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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

Use mini celebs - a columnist in a local newspaper or magazine may not be a global sensation, but he or she does have a large, captive audience. To download todays documents, please click on the links below: Care2 Brown-Bag.pdf Holiday Fundraising-Care2 & ForumOne Thanks to todays sponsors and speakers!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Benetech's newest project is a software tool called Miradi that helps environmental practitioners design, manage, monitor and learn from their projects to more effectively meet the needs of global biodiversity. Our newest human rights project is looking closely at the human rights challenges in Darfur.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Imagine a Jewish girl, selling Challah bread on a college campus in America to help support black Muslims in Darfur. One of PresenTense's core activities is the Global Summer Institute , held in Jerusalem. They used Google docs to help share documents with the volunteers worldwide as they worked on the magazine.

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