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Best of Beth's Blog 2008: Finding The Top Ten Posts In Less Than Five MInutes!

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Scored 10 How Much Time Does It Take To Do Social Media? Thinking Strategically About Social Media. Transparency and Social Media: Dealing with Criticism. The Intangible Benefits of Social Media. Social Media ROI: Compare With Paper. Social Media ROI: Compare With Paper. Social Media In An Economic Downturn.

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Vote for the First Anti-Genocide Hotline on Reddit

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My colleague, Ivan Boothe, who works with the Genocide Intervention Network and who is incredible smart about integrating social media into cause-related campaigns, pinged me about this reddit campaign. See the full alert here. I wanted to help him out, so follow that link above and then follow the instructions. Then come back here.

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Serious Games Initiative

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The Darfur is Dying game probably caught your attention. Founded at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, it explores these intriguing questions: What public policy and management issues or challenges are most amenable to computer-based gaming techniques? What existing and emerging game technologies (such as.

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Changing the Present, Give Meaning, and Personal Fundraising Campaigns

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've come across two personal fundraising campaigns that use the metaphor of wishes, pay it forward, or gift economy and are aggressively incorporating social media techniques into their strategies. Stop the genocide in Darfur, that???d And then goes on describe the features. Big or small.it t matter???just just plant one tree.

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Insiders Guide to Video and YouTube for Nonprofits - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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YouTube provides content and a community, so it straddles the line between a media outlet and a social networking site and gives nonprofits the best of both worlds. 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.

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Insiders Guide to Video and YouTube for Nonprofits - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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YouTube provides content and a community, so it straddles the line between a media outlet and a social networking site and gives nonprofits the best of both worlds. 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.

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Reflections on Mixed Reality Events in Second Life

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. The next event I attended was a poster session at the New Media Consortium where you view project posters in the virtual world.