Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2009

The Save Darfur Coalition asks to organize events, vigils. Promote cross-platform: FB, LI, Twitter, email>blog>online poll/petition >offline events. 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

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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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. Marketing.

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Care2

OCTOBER 29, 2007

The Peace Primary is a campaign we devised – unique, as far as we know – to promote a “peace platform” for the election season, and to commemorate two major milestones at Ploughshares Fund – our 25th anniversary, and the fifty millionth dollar awarded to organizations and individuals around the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

I think everyone wants to be heard and have their experience validated, and we can provide a platform for this to happen, connected with a broader social marketing program. You can create or simulate an experience that can evoke an emotional response from a visitor, as they have done with Camp Darfur. Of course, we can also have an ???official???

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 5, 2007

Second Life is the virtual world to take off as an open platform where anyone can create content and own intellectual property for what they create. It’s not a game—there’s no goal or restrictions on how you use it—instead, it’s a technology platform for immersion and interaction, like the web. Most museums already have websites.

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Care2

AUGUST 16, 2008

We arent an exclusive platform - you can post here and anywhere else. 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. I think the better question is, why not be on YouTube?

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