Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

I placed the photo of me wearing my newest Creative Commons T-Shirt on blog - and of course added it to my Facebook profile and on Twitter , you'll see the Creative Commons Logo with a donate message. two came to mind and rhyme: Fashion and Passion. to support the monks in Burma. But that's not all.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 19, 2008

taking place across various social media sites, including Facebook. moving from Darfur to Burma to whatever cause is next. Several months ago my colleague Mary Joyce (who I met at the Global Voices Summit in London in 2005 ) and who is now at the Berkman Center pinged me and asked if I knew any digital activists in Southeast Asia.

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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. There is a also conference taking place called " Digital Games for Social Change " in June in NYC. It caught mine as I'm interested in the role of play in problem-solving, what ever the scope of the problem. promote awareness. educate their audience.

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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. * . * Oxfam has used Flickr petitions successfully in several campaigns.

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JUNE 28, 2006

That's an excerpt from a speech given by Muadi Mukenge the Global Fund for Women's Program Officer for Africa, at the Darfur Day of Conscience. The reality is more tragic in Baghdad; killing and kidnapping take place day and night. I guess it is no further than a few hundred meters of my place. No one feels safe anywhere.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2006

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. Techsoup, a project from CompuMentor, is the technology place for nonprofits on the Web) So it makes sense that they should open a virtual office on Second Life.

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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). You'll need to install Google Earth (it's free) to view the file, and it is best viewed in the newest version of Google Earth (4.2).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2007

It looks like a good place to start if you want to find examples of nonprofits with a presence in MySpace and get ideas. Save Darfur. She writes about a nonprofit portal in Myspace called Nonprofit Organizations MySpace. It offers tips on how not-for-profits can effectively use MySpace for fundraising and/or campaigning.

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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. Susan Tenby has written up her observations about the event and places to improve. I can wait to see what comes out of these experiments.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2007

MySpace.com: A Place for Donors? Care2 OneWorld.net Interaction Here are the articles that were featured during todays presentation: Procastinators Guide to Year-End Fundraising by Mark Rovner, Sea Change Strategies, and Care2. Is It Worth It?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Regular Beneblog readers will know most of this, but it's always handy to pull it together all in one place. Our newest human rights project is looking closely at the human rights challenges in Darfur. We are nearing completion of our assessment of Darfur-related NGOs and their qualitative documentation on human rights abuses.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

third place??? You can create or simulate an experience that can evoke an emotional response from a visitor, as they have done with Camp Darfur. I think the technology needs to improve before it becomes more widespread, but when it does I think it may well become the ???third that people hang out in that???s s not home or work.

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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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AUGUST 16, 2008

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. A nonprofit partner has the opportunity to place a large banner at the top of its channel page, which can link back to the nonprofits website or campaign page.

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JULY 14, 2008

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. A nonprofit partner has the opportunity to place a large banner at the top of its channel page, which can link back to the nonprofits website or campaign page.

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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. There are 500 volunteers working for PresenTense each year, mainly from North America and Israel, but also from other places around the globe. Efrat Ben-Dor Erez, NPTech Israel. Managing Events .

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OCTOBER 22, 2007

On MySpace : Both Oxfam and HSUS prove what we already know from Greenpeace and others – MySpace is a great place to get new advocates. 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. How did they get so many friends?

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MAY 25, 2007

These sites are places where I can make my page, connect with friends, ect. All the data in these widgets come from different places and are assembled for my convenience. Their application is called Causes, and when you sign up you can pick from many causes, such as Save Darfur or One.org. And they aren’t all kids.

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VisionLink

JANUARY 18, 2010

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. As the world grows smaller, as we get to know each other, our 50,000 year old fear and hatred of others is bumping up against 50,000 years of the Golden Rule.

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OCTOBER 22, 2015

He won his second Pulitzer in 2006 for his columns on Darfur. I cannot wait to celebrate the winners of these awards and all the ways they’re helping make this world a better place. They were awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1990 for their coverage of China and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Lifetime Achievement in 2009.

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MAY 23, 2006

On a deeper level, it is satisfying to work with organizations whose work resonates with my personal beliefs: Amnesty and Never Again place equal emphasis on the power of the ordinary individual as well as experts or powerful people. It is terrific working with people who are like-minded and passionate about improving the world.

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