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Serious Games Initiative

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Fashion and Passion for Your Cause: Wear it on Your Blog or Profile!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

two came to mind and rhyme: Fashion and Passion. between causes and people, both create an interesting strategic question for organizations that seems like a fruitful place for future investigation: how do you get those people involved? I recently read an article about fundraising on social networking sites.

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Notes from The Seven Things Everyone Wants: What Freud and Buddha Understood (and We're Forgetting) about Online Outreach

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That's the question the Nonprofit Technology Conference session, "The Seven Things Everyone Wants: What Freud and Buddha Understood (and We're Forgetting) about Online Outreach," tried to answer. Effective campaigns always keep their audience's needs in mind. Think about the last time you did something for a cause. Why did you do it?

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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. There was a question from the audience on blogger outreach, from someone who got no traffic from buying an ad on a relevant blog, and got no love from the blogger either.

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Martin Luther King Day - Let Freedom Ring

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By holding a mirror to the ideals of America, King forced America to confront the question who do we mean by all men ? We see the tragic consequences when fear and hatred win out over the Golden Rule in places like the Middle East, Iran, North Korea, Darfur, Zimbabwe, and Myanmar. I still believe that We Shall Overcome!

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NpTechTag Summary: NpTech Blog Buzz, NGOS at Demo 07, and Moulin

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants: The most recent is a roundup of posts addressing the question of how nonprofit communicators can cut through the clutter to engage overloaded audiences. A new blog platform for fair-minded bloggers. Check out this splashcast channel with a nonprofit theme created by Netsquared Blogger, Britt Bravo.

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Solutionary Women: Heddy Nam

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This project will tackle big questions such as: What are the most pressing human rights problems in our world? That’s when they decided that youth, who are idealistic, energetic and open-minded, would be the engine to peacebuilding to ensure that genocide does not go unchallenged.

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