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Notes from The Seven Things Everyone Wants: What Freud and Buddha Understood (and We're Forgetting) about Online Outreach

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Two of their staff members recently returned from Darfur and are putting together a video to raise awareness about it. They are collecting questions from supporters about Darfur to include in the video. * . * Oxfam has used Flickr petitions successfully in several campaigns.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Why do people give charity?

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It’s easy to imagine that the academic research may eventually serve as the building blocks for a unified theory of how to raise money. Hollywood celebrities have become central players on deeply political issues like development aid, refugees and government-sponsored violence in Darfur.

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President's Update: Summer 2008

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The project has been so successful at raising student reading skills that they hope to provide similar services to their non-disabled students as well. Our dream is to raise the floor for every person with a disability, to ensure access to the material needed for education, employment and social participation.

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The Move On Model: Inciting Visitor Social Action

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section about the genocide in Darfur, which includes information about direct action, as well as connection to a variety of social networks, blogs, and content about the situation. 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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(Not a) Game Friday: Virtual Worlds 101

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Virtual worlds are a communication medium in which people use avatars (animated characters) to interact and have shared experiences in a 3D environment. The Exploratorium did the solar eclipse, and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum is doing all kinds of programs around Darfur. How would you define virtual worlds? Use the phone?

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Facebook Platform – Opening Up

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Go and develop not a simple embeddable widget, but go and development in a native environment that makes use of all the tools we have, the connections between people, for example. Their application is called Causes, and when you sign up you can pick from many causes, such as Save Darfur or One.org. So Facebook said go and develop.