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Harry Potter Alliance Raises Awareness About Darfur

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On Saturday, July 14th, the Harry Potter Alliance, in conjunction with the Genocide Intervention Network, and other human rights groups, are encouraging Harry Potter lovers and human rights activists to hold house parties to learn more about the situation in Darfur, and to take action. Harry Potter Darfur

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Paul Rusesabagina & Bloggers for Darfur

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The talk was also sponsored by Facing History, Facing Ourselves , Human Rights Watch , the Museum of African Diaspora , Marines' Memorial Association , Bay Area Darfur Coalition , Amnesty International and Stacey's Independent Bookstore. People from the Bay Area Darfur Coalition were handing out info. darfur genocide rwanda bloggers

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Second Life and Alzheimer's Exhibit Coming to Second Life

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The images and the supporting text give visitors a sense of what it's like to be part of the Alzheimer's community. Mia Farrow and Darfur event scheduled for last week was cancelled due to a fire in the Cambridge, MA building. The amazing Wayne MacPhail has been helping the Alzheimer Society of Ontario and Second Life Library 2.0

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Pros and Cons of Facebook Activism

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Machinima Festival and NTC Video Contest

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In fact, there's an NTEN Affinity Group for video blogging where you can get advice, ask questions, or share what you know. 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.

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Nonprofits and MySpace Roundup Inspired By Solidariti

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. 3) Use your organization's logo for your default MySpace profile image. 8) Post comment images that are no larger than 600 pixels in width.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Oxfam America and HSUS: Not just Talking about Social Media, Using It

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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. If you need any images please let me know and I can send them to you.

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