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JUNE 20, 2008

Today, June 20th, is World Refugee Day , a day to raise awareness about refugees' rights, and to honor their experiences. That's a statistic you don't often see in the news. Finally, World Refugee Day is also a day of celebration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

We've found the best approach is to recognize that motivation is not something you can create - it's something there based on personal experience. two came to mind and rhyme: Fashion and Passion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2006

That's my metaphor for embracing a topic that grabs my attention and is related to my work (nonprofits and technology) but I have no prior knowledge or experience. 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.

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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. You can see our action in the message below, or by going to: [link].net/OneMinute

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 11, 2008

On March 19th, 2008, after spending 8 days in the hospital related to her multiple sclerosis, Cami Walker decided to give away one thing each day for 29 days : "I decided to do the 29-Day Giving Challenge as an experiment. One of my spiritual teachers, Mbali Creazzo, suggested that I try to give away 29 things in 29 days.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2006

That's question the " Gifter Site , a series of experiments in social giving to change the world, is asking. Stop the genocide in Darfur, that???d His deadline is Jan 10th, so check it out! His campaign video is here. If you could make one wish for the world, what would it be? So, here is how it works. Big or small.it t matter???just

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JULY 4, 2007

She also won the 2005 National Magazine Award for Reporting for her article, " Dying in Darfur ," in The New Yorker. Should be a really valuable learning experience. See how theory actually works. Everyone is a teacher and a learner. Engage in the world. Learn to think critically. That whole bit. Whoop whoop!

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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. You're not going to have perfection when it is a experiment! I can wait to see what comes out of these experiments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Gnomedex Real Time Fundraising Experiment. Be A Voice for Darfur: Great Example of A Multi-Channel Campaign. Prioritizing Your Web Strategy Budget: What Slice of the Pie for Social Media? Social Media In An Economic Downturn. Microblogging in a Museum Context. The What, Why, and How of Facebook Fan Pages.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 16, 2007

In the NAIL case study on the Google Earth Outreach site , she describes the experience: "At the packed-to-overflowing community meeting in September, 2005, I first presented this KML to about 300 residents. Two years ago, Rebecca presented a logging flyover at a Neighbors Against Responsible Logging (NAIL) meeting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

ve been teaching a course on social marketing at the UCLA School of Public Health, which has been a fun experience for me. I think blogs are a great way to draw people in to an issue by connecting with a real person who writes about their day-to-day experience. And I have my blog, Spare Change, which I just started in January. (I

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

It is open source software, but we're experimenting with a revenue model to sustain the project over the long term. Our newest human rights project is looking closely at the human rights challenges in Darfur. We are nearing completion of our assessment of Darfur-related NGOs and their qualitative documentation on human rights abuses.

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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. How would you answer that?

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JANUARY 5, 2007

Today, an interview with Sibley Verbeck (Hathor's his virtual name), founder/CEO of the Electric Sheep Company , which does experience design for real-world companies in virtual worlds including Second Life. And while a website can increase interest in the museum, it’s not a way for people to have a museum experience.

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AUGUST 16, 2008

Many right now are just starting to get their feet wet and experiment so I would say that the best is yet to come. 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. Everyone is on YouTube.

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JULY 14, 2008

Many right now are just starting to get their feet wet and experiment so I would say that the best is yet to come. 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. Everyone is on YouTube.

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JUNE 25, 2007

The exhibition is a fairly standard zoo introduction to the Congo, its inhabitants, and conservation efforst, with a twist: at the end of the Congo experience, in the Conservation Choices area, visitors are able to select, via a touchscreen, which animals/areas/projects they want their $3 entry fee to fund.

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NTEN

MAY 3, 2011

Steve Daigneault puts his 15 years of experience as a grassroots organizer, communications specialist and online strategist to work for M+R clients like PBS, the Legacy Foundation and the U.S. Steve has also been a consultant and strategist for the Save Darfur Coalition, American Cancer Society, U.S. Fund for UNICEF.

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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. They talk about Oxfam and the HUmaneSociety’s experiences on Facebook, MySpace, YouTube and blogging and blogger outreach. Funny, another negative note on Second Life.

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MAY 13, 2009

USHMM : Crisis in Darfur - Visualized destruction in Darfur that was being publicly refuted - 50% increase in traffic to site - International visits went from 23-52%. My experience at Women Who Tech (Via Web Teacher). More examples can be found on the Google Earth Outreach page of nonprofit case studies.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

Unthinkingly experiments with visualizing NpTech Tag data with Many Eyes. Personal Fundraising and Open Source Deductions Article in the Seattle Times about personal fundraising, Hoping To Help Darfur $1 at a Time that focuses on Darfurwall.org that has successfully raiased $30,000 in very small donations - $1 per person. Check it out.

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