Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 8, 2006

According to SaveDarfur.org , "Later today the House of Representatives will vote on whether or not to provide critical funding for humanitarian aid in Darfur." They are asking that you call your Representative today and ask that he or she vote for the Obey/Hyde/Lantos amendment which would add $50 million in humanitarin aid in Darfur.

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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. tools from outside the United States that help digital activists evade Internet censorship and promote human rights issues to a wider audience.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

At Forum One, this kind of list illustrates the core concept of an internet strategy as distinct from a web site strategy -- not just how to design or build a smart web site, but how to use the entirety of the internet in a very powerful way to help achieve your mission. See the Darfur scores for example.

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Have Fun - Do Good

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. Create a username and password.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2006

The amazing Wayne MacPhail has been helping the Alzheimer Society of Ontario and Second Life Library 2.0 Mia Farrow and Darfur event scheduled for last week was cancelled due to a fire in the Cambridge, MA building. curator Shadow Fugazi put together a photo exhibition in Second Life.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 2, 2008

Read Darfur Diaries by Aisha Bain, Jen Marlowe and Adam Shapiro. Watched Darfur Now. We'll help empower kids in upbeat, social/media forms of fun, to make a difference in communities online and off." We'll help empower kids in upbeat, social/media forms of fun, to make a difference in communities online and off."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

They’re jocks, geeks, artists, musicians and cheerleaders…and we need their help. 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). And it helps. Generic license ).

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Care2

MARCH 17, 2009

M+R Strategic Services released a new study this week showing promising fundraising results for four nonprofits (Easter Seals, Human Rights Campaign, the Save Darfur Coalition, and The Wilderness Society) that tested premium offers to prospective donors. Net revenue grew by 51%.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2008

Change.org is launching a social action blog network this summer and is currently hiring a team of blogger/editors to help create a movement for change around the major causes of our time. Want to create the premier online space for your issue and become a leading voice for social action? Positions are part-time and paid.

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See3

JUNE 15, 2007

After Clinton spoke we heard from Ann Curry from NBC news who was honored for her coverage of Darfur. Unlike 99% of her news colleagues, Ann has actually gone to Darfur, and more than once. The program ended with a South African woman named Mama G, who thanked AJWS and its supporters for helping fight HIV/AIDS in Africa.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

Ivan Boothe helped start the Genocide Intervention Network in 2004, and was responsible for communications, web development and social networking strategy. 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.

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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. ghennipher @ kanter TweetUps and other events to help them feel involved with the cause. Deepen relationship through custom apps that improve on org activites (event fundraising, petitions). Create something to attend! easibey @ kanter actions that r easy/doable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 19, 2008

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. moving from Darfur to Burma to whatever cause is next. taking place across various social media sites, including Facebook. serial activists???,

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 23, 2009

Waiting a few weeks until your "real life" is in full swing can help you craft more realistic goals. Continue learning about why genocide happens and how I can take action by following blogs like the Genocide Intervention Network , ENOUGH , Stop Genocide on Change.org , Darfur: An Unforgivable Hell on Earth , and Human Rights Now.

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Have Fun - Do Good

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. * The Environmental Defense Fund asked supporters to help them write a Declaration of New Patriotism.

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See3

OCTOBER 25, 2007

Here’s an example in the channel page: 24 Hours for Darfur Channel Here’s an example on the standard video page: 24 Hours for Darfur standard view If you are a 501(c)3 it’s a no-brainer to sign up. Can anyone help me. What we don’t know yet is whether it will work.

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See3

OCTOBER 25, 2007

Here’s an example in the channel page: 24 Hours for Darfur Channel Here’s an example on the standard video page: 24 Hours for Darfur standard view If you are a 501(c)3 it’s a no-brainer to sign up. Can anyone help me. What we don’t know yet is whether it will work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2007

I wanted to help him out, so follow that link above and then follow the instructions. But there's strategy involved and a tool to help you execute it. Then come back here. 2005 ) I had (wrongly) assumed that getting to the top of social news sites was a matter of dumb luck or that if something went viral.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2006

The Darfur is Dying game probably caught your attention. Part of its overall charter is to help forge productive links between the electronic game industry and projects involving the use of games in education, training, health, and public policy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

As an activist and evangelist for Creative Commons' values and tools, I want to do my part in helping to ensure that our culture remains as free and accessible as possible. two came to mind and rhyme: Fashion and Passion. I have a strong interest in the future of my work and participatory culture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Help Me Send Leng Sopharath To College in Good Health! Thanks Teresa Crawford For Helping Us Swim Upstream. 10 will help a Cambodian Youngster Get A Better Life. Be A Voice for Darfur: Great Example of A Multi-Channel Campaign. Social Media Breakfast: Help Leverage A Tyson Foods Donation. Harry: A Green Geek.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2006

The website helps networks of small-scale philanthropists develop and fund solutions to pressing social problems." Stop the genocide in Darfur, that???d " Peter gives us analysis of the landscape: Building a community of small-scale philanthropists sounds like a novel idea. Big or small.it t matter???just just plant one tree.

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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. And, it helps to be guided or you will ask what's the point ? Here's a few reflections from people in the room.

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Care2

OCTOBER 29, 2007

Voters are encouraged to vote for as many groups as they can in order to generate a comprehensive peace platform that encompasses the issues that are most important to each person, whether it’s the war in Iraq, nuclear weapons, Darfur or global conflict. The polls close at midnight on Halloween.

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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. This response is a measure of how eager the environmental field is for a tool that helps better manage projects.

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Care2

AUGUST 16, 2008

That said, there are some basic things that might be helpful to think about. we just want to help you get your message out to the worlds largest online video community. I will continue to follow your expertise on this subject to help me with my non-profit. Sometimes its the most surprising content that sparks the most interest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

My background is in public health, with an interest in using the mass media to help bring about healthy behavior change. You can create or simulate an experience that can evoke an emotional response from a visitor, as they have done with Camp Darfur. And I have my blog, Spare Change, which I just started in January.

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Have Fun - Do Good

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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Care2

JULY 14, 2008

That said, there are some basic things that might be helpful to think about. we just want to help you get your message out to the worlds largest online video community. I will continue to follow your expertise on this subject to help me with my non-profit. Sometimes its the most surprising content that sparks the most interest.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2007

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. This amounts to messageless activism, which doesn't help anyone. Their website includes a clear, concise "What Can I Do?"

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NTEN

MAY 3, 2011

In "The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty" , Princeton University professor Peter Singer famously highlights one study in which individuals who were shown a picture of a girl named Rokia and told her story were willing to give far more than when asked to help three million hungry children in Malawi. Don't panic.

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Care2

APRIL 22, 2009

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." But it took Save Darfur over a year to raise about $28,000 from those Facebook Cause "friends," -- and almost two years to raise their current total of $78,000.

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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. Even if you rely on volunteers and users to help create and assemble the content, you have to manage that process. How do you measure success of a project like this in Second Life?

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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. This amazing project , initiated by Eli Winkelman, came to life with the help of PresenTense. They used Google docs to help share documents with the volunteers worldwide as they worked on the magazine.

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See3

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. This shows the viral potential of raising awareness in the social networks. On Facebook : I think everyone agrees it’s very early.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 22, 2015

Nicholas and Ashley will be helping us open and close this year’s #bbcon with a major bang. He won his second Pulitzer in 2006 for his columns on Darfur. The Blackbaud Impact Awards recognize nonprofit professionals using technology to power their passions and help good take over. Talk about a stellar line-up, am I right?

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Connection Cafe

MAY 13, 2009

The panelists each described a handful of tools to help with online communication, specifically for nonprofit causes and social activism. 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%.

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