Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Be A Voice for Darfur is an excellent example of multi-channel campaign designed to bring attention to the appalling genocide in Darfur. Here's the call to action from the web site. The genocide in Darfur continues - now in its sixth year and at the price of nearly half a million lives. Darfur Voices. Team Darfur.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 24, 2013

With all the new tools out there to experiment with, why would individuals and brands want to start over on site with a bad brand name and tainted history? Once again, Myspace old and new, misunderstood and underestimated the affection that Myspacers once had for this site. So, does your nonprofit need to be on the new Myspace?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 12, 2007

In May 2005, Andrew Slack and his friend Justin Oberman started a MySpace site to discuss the connections between the Harry Potter series and social justice. When the site took off, 27-year-old Slack created the Harry Potter Alliance. Go to DarfurScores.org , and find out how your elected leaders have been graded regarding Darfur.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

When you hear about what is going in Darfur, do you feel like you want to do something, but you don't know what to do? You can find out when the next call is by signing up for alerts on the ENOUGH site. Key Points: The violence in Darfur is part of a history of violence in all of the Sudan. All the time.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

At Forum One, this kind of list illustrates the core concept of an internet strategy as distinct from a web site strategy -- not just how to design or build a smart web site, but how to use the entirety of the internet in a very powerful way to help achieve your mission. See the Darfur scores for example.

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See3

MARCH 12, 2008

Hollywood celebrities have become central players on deeply political issues like development aid, refugees and government-sponsored violence in Darfur. Michael Hoffman ’s site is fantastic! I thought I’d share the latest post on the site which grabbed my attention: Why do people give charity? [.]

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Care2

JULY 14, 2008

Were currently the sixth largest website in the country - every minute, 13 hours of video are uploaded to the site. 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. All Care2 terms of service and privacy policies apply.

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