Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 21, 2008

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. Two of their staff members recently returned from Darfur and are putting together a video to raise awareness about it. Why did you do it?

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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." What I've done: Read What is the What by Dave Eggers. Interviewed Janessa Goldbeck of the Genocide Intervention Network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2008

We also don't know whether and how online giving marketplaces, social enterprise, social investing and other innovations born in good times will stand a downturn, short or prolonged, and how those changes will ripple across longer-standing practices." A recent post. So, what else can be done? Here's one for you.

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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. Tags: Case Studies Online Fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2009

How do we activate the online activists to take action offline?" I was not presenting, but decided to use Twitter crowd source some suggestions, screencapture them, and put those into my presentation later in the day. jeffshuck @ kanter I'm biased, but events are a powerful way to move online advocates offline. I suggest a tweetup.

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APRIL 29, 2008

Want to create the premier online space for your issue and become a leading voice for social action? 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. Positions are part-time and paid.

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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. A mix of wonkish policy speak, amazing knowledge of his subjects, and compelling stories of meeting people all over the world.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 1, 2007

George Irish of Shake the Pillars posts about Amnesty International's "Get in Bed with Darfur" -Putting the Fun Into Human Rights Campaigning. Isabella Mori of Alphablogs.net suggests 10 Reasons Why Arts Organizations Should Have Blogs including to be, "a virtual gallery, museum, concert hall or book store."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

I think he’s right…and, online and off, I’m beginning to make it a priority to hang out with folks outside our dogooder set. 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).

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APRIL 13, 2007

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Google Earth: "The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has joined with Google in an unprecedented online mapping initiative. Crisis in Darfur enables more than 200 million Google Earth users worldwide to visualize and better understand the genocide currently unfolding in Darfur, Sudan.

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OCTOBER 29, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 20, 2007

I already spend way too much time online, but then there started to be events that I wanted to check out. Like in January when Mia Farrow spoke in Second Life about Darfur at a virtual event sponsored by the U.S. Today I joined Second Life , a virtual 3-D world built by its residents. At first I really didn't want to.

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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. What we don’t know yet is whether it will work.

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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. What we don’t know yet is whether it will work.

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AUGUST 16, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Why or why not?

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JULY 14, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Why or why not?

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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. Stop the genocide in Darfur, that???d Big or small.it t matter???just d be foremost.

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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. Anya Achtenberg will be teaching an online workshop, Writing for Social Change: Re-Dream a Just World, later this year. You can order the CD-ROM, or read it for free online. You can subscribe to her blog here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2006

The online environment is capable of supporting hundreds or thousands of playters simultaneously over the Internet. 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 can games like Second Life be a useful tool for social change?

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DECEMBER 31, 2008

Online Fundraising Predictions From Around the World. Online Community Engagement Strategies. Be A Voice for Darfur: Great Example of A Multi-Channel Campaign. Transparency and Social Media: Dealing with Criticism. Interview with Jonathon Colman. The Intangible Benefits of Social Media. Harry: A Green Geek.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2007

She is the online campaign coordinator for a national grassroots organization, ANTar , that supports indigenous people. Save Darfur. The Solidariti Blog is written by Priscilla Brice-Weller who has worked for the not-for-profit sector in Melbourne, Austraila. Her recent blog post, called web2.0 goodness , caught my eye.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 16, 2007

Steve talked about how Google Earth can make the world a smaller place and add faces and places to statistics, like the USHMM's Crisis in Darfur layer does (pictured above). Videos in the balloons will only work on Windows.

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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. Jeska Linden , Community Manager for Linden Labs, has the mike in her hand, while her avatar is behind the podium in Second Life.

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MARCH 12, 2008

Home • About Us Mission Team News Partners Careers • Services Overview Interactive Marketing Video Web Design and Development • Clients Clients List Client Login • Resources Overview Events YouTube for Nonprofits Guide to Online Video Video FAQs Our Blog • Contact POSTED BY Michael Hoffman MAR 12, 2008 Why do people give charity?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

t spend much time online beyond checking their e-mail. The key difference between using SL and other online channels for marketing is that SL is so experiential. You can create or simulate an experience that can evoke an emotional response from a visitor, as they have done with Camp Darfur. Some sort of research ???

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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. The US Holocaust Memorial Museum includes a Committee on Conscience , which advocates and educates about acts of genocide around the world.

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NTEN

MAY 3, 2011

Colin Holtz helps M+R clients integrate powerful messaging, grassroots activism and online organizing into creative and effective campaigns. Joe Sestak’s 2006 congressional campaign, and then joined M+R's online advocacy and fundraising team.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Rumor is they heard our new spring collection is now available online at [link].&#. Comments flooded in – “I guess Groupon decided to do a funny commercial about Tibet because Darfur would be in bad taste? The tasteless ads bombed and the social media mob formed again.

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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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AUGUST 31, 2010

Imagine a Jewish girl, selling Challah bread on a college campus in America to help support black Muslims in Darfur. Online Collaboration. PT used technology from day one, says Simi Hinden, the director of the online community. Efrat Ben-Dor Erez, NPTech Israel. "Google was our first office", Simi explains.

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OCTOBER 22, 2007

Called “Web 2.0 – New Outreach and Fundraising Techniques,” the topic of this workshop is something every nonprofit marketing manager and online communications professional wants to talk about. Do you know about Oxfam America Unwrapped, Oxfam America’s online gift catalog? On Facebook : I think everyone agrees it’s very early.

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MAY 25, 2007

I can imagine almost any application that’s online going native with Facebook. Facebook is a hot social networking site and the open platform means that I can build an application and have members of Facebook spread this to all of their online friends. First a little background. This feels big.

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MAY 13, 2009

The first full session I was able to catch was “Tools Galore in Online Communications” moderated by Netsquared’s Amy Sample Ward with speakers Natalie Foster , Director of New Media for the Democratic National Committee , Rebecca Moore, Google Earth Outreach and Laura Quinn, Executive Director of Idealware.

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OCTOBER 22, 2015

For the first year ever, we’re hosting a social media lounge where the focus is going to be about taking all of the amazing conversations that are happening within the convention walls and sharing them online. He won his second Pulitzer in 2006 for his columns on Darfur.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

Personal Fundraising and Open Source Deductions Article in the Seattle Times about personal fundraising, Hoping To Help Darfur $1 at a Time that focuses on Darfurwall.org that has successfully raiased $30,000 in very small donations - $1 per person. Nonprofit Online News adds Gavin's Digital Dinner to its author network. Check it out.

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