Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Several years ago I created the Cute Dog Theory, a node to a Nicolas Kristof quote about how puppies get more attention than dry statistics about Darfur. View more presentations from Beth Kanter. I even did a series of interviews of nonprofit social media professionals and their dogs and its all available on a fun wiki.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2009

See the Darfur scores for example. Identify strategic constituencies: Use geographical research tools such as Google Maps to find citizen groups who might be concerned with underperforming politicians, such as identifying ethnic or university groups within a particular congressional district.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2007

On Friday, I was on a "Darfur Activist" conference call produced by ENOUGH , the Genocide Intervention Network , STAND and the Save Darfur Coalition. Anyone could call in and hear an update about developments on the ground in Darfur and Congo, and upcoming legislation, events and campaigns. Make it simple.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2006

Amoration tackles a wide variety of creative ventures for corporations, like Telus and for a host of activist and nonprofit groups like Betterworld Island, a group which has created the powerful Camp Darfur simulation you'll hear Evonne mention in the interview. Machinima are movies filmed inside virtual worlds like Second Life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

Here’s what’s pissing me off: The reason I have to fight every time to do these stories [like Darfur] is because the truth is that it’s hard to get the majority of Americans…to care. ” (not in video). How can we reach out in creative, compelling ways to bring a diverse group of people together around important causes and ideas?

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

This week in NTEN 's Nonprofit Blogging Affinity Group , a new member asked for a list of nonprofit blogs. Nonprofit Blogs" can actually be divided into two categories: blogs written by nonprofits, and blogs about nonprofit-related topics that are written by individuals who aren't necessarily affiliated with a specific organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2008

In the nonprofit and philanthropy world, like the economy in general, the outlook for 2009 is rather bleak. A group of nonprofit and philanthropy pundits have offered their views on the impact of the economy on the nonprofit sector. Lucy Bernholz says: "Two areas of potential impact of the crisis concern me. Here's one for you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 19, 2008

I joined the various Burma Facebook groups early on because my colleagues in Cambodia were involved from the beginning and documented some of the activism. I helped her track down the people behind the Support the monks Campaign and Facebook Burma Group, an unofficial representative in the UK named Imran Jamal, Burma Global Action Network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2009

The Save Darfur Coalition asks to organize events, vigils. paulcip @ kanter let everyone propose and lead their own fave activity related to group objectives via mail list, bbs, etc. EMcD @ kanter At @ carepages we enabled members to share their stories offline (local media, support groups, religious organizations) MandyGRS @ kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

For instance, when we first started organizing on Facebook in 2005, we found many existing groups on campuses working to end the genocide in Darfur. We use it to go where people are already organizing against genocide, and give them tools to do so effectively.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2006

We go to WOW server and get a group together. Darfur Is Dying was the result. The founder and creator of game consulted people in Darfur. Darfur is Dying was created at last year's GFC. Peacemaker was the first place winner. We created an Island in Second Life to forward this agenda. To get gamers to hook up and play.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2006

In fact, there's an NTEN Affinity Group for video blogging where you can get advice, ask questions, or share what you know. AmaBe Cheeky stars in this one with Zeke Poutine, In Kenzo and the janjaweed of Camp Darfur. I'd also like to point out a video genre that has been used for social change: machimina.

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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. But what about nonprofits using games for training, role playing, support groups, education, fundraising, or outreach? Is it worth for nonprofits to invest?

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MARCH 21, 2008

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2006

Peter Dietz has written another article on his micro-philthantrophy site, First-of-Its-Kind, about a service called GiveMeaning , as described by Peter, "another online community that provide a platform for group fundraising over the internet. The world of group fundraising websites has already witnessed its first round of consolidation.

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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. Based on the TechSoup Second Life Group stats). A Museum group is also forming to discuss and explore what museum's can do in SL.

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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. In her post, Diary of Writing for Social Change Research Project , Kris writes about a project she'll be doing with a group of teachers who will conduct research projects in their classrooms about writing for social change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2007

Save Darfur. OrphFund organizers credit their work on MySpace: "While we still use group emails and SMS to advertise our events, they are quite random and faceless," she said. Jobs With Justice. Katrina Stories. National Farmers Union. National Wildlife Federation. Medecins Sans Frontieres. Mothers Acting Up.

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Care2

OCTOBER 29, 2007

Thus, we were delighted when our favorite former President, Jed Bartlet – Martin Sheen, that is -- agreed to join the Peace Primary as the head of the panel that selected the twelve groups, and our chief spokesman. ” Each vote costs $1, with a ten vote minimum and 1,000 vote maximum per group.

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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. We work with human rights groups all over the world. The feedback has been amazing.

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MARCH 12, 2008

Most philanthropy still comes in the form of small gifts, but there is also a growing group of donors, like Bill and Melinda Gates, who are interested in bringing some of the quantitative rigor of big business to philanthropy. Americans gave $295 billion to charity in 2006, equal to 2.2

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

whether formal, like focus groups and surveys, or informal is imperative in order to create an effective strategy. You can create or simulate an experience that can evoke an emotional response from a visitor, as they have done with Camp Darfur. Perhaps most of your target audience members are not technologically savvy and don???t

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JUNE 25, 2007

Let’s start with some examples (many of which were also presented at AAM): The Monterey Bay Aquarium maintains an Ocean Action group that visitors can join to get involved in advocacy for marine life and conservation. Their website includes a clear, concise "What Can I Do?"

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Care2

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. There are some great examples of nonprofits that are doing an excellent job with online video.

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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. There are some great examples of nonprofits that are doing an excellent job with online video.

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APRIL 22, 2009

Almost two years after Facebook Causes was launched, the tool still does not seem to be working for fundraising, except for a tiny group of nonprofits. It seemed too early to tell, but then, when we checked back about a year later, we found this interesting and profound story about the nonprofit group "Save Darfur."

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NTEN

MAY 3, 2011

Our shared stories define our social group. We created two random 300K groups and pitted two versions against each other: Version 1 : Written using a more general, institutional approach that outlined the organization's accomplishments and need. Stories shape our identities. The stories we tell about ourselves shape who we are.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 5, 2007

The Exploratorium did the solar eclipse, and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum is doing all kinds of programs around Darfur. It seems like the real world museums that are starting to work in Second Life are pursuing the social interaction element of the platform through events.

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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. So far, the only real strategy to analyze besides creating groups is the Causes application. On Facebook : I think everyone agrees it’s very early.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 22, 2015

He won his second Pulitzer in 2006 for his columns on Darfur. Because you can’t have bbcon in ATX without getting to hear “one of the best groups working in Austin today.” They were awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1990 for their coverage of China and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Lifetime Achievement in 2009.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

The Network-Centric Advocacy blog says thank you to the Integration Proclamation that might help progressive organizations reach the Holy Grail: getting the technology groups use to work together! A list of tools and resources for Democracy Building and Civic Engagement from the Berkman-Sunlight workshop. Have you signed the petition yet?

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MAY 23, 2006

It was founded in 2001 by a group of college students from all over the world who wanted to ensure that “Never Again” became a reality rather than a rhetorical sound bite. Describe the work you do with Never Again and maybe a bit about the project.

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