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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Internet Strategy Darfur United States 51

Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 21, 2006

While thousands of people board planes to visit family and friends during the holidays, Gabriel Stauring and Stacey Martino from Stop Genocide Now will be traveling to the Darfur/Chad border. You can see a video of stories they collected from refugees on the Darfur/Chad border during their last trip here. Darfur blog genocide video

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Darfur Challenge Chad Badge 40

Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 3, 2007

On Friday, I was on a "Darfur Activist" conference call produced by ENOUGH , the Genocide Intervention Network , STAND and the Save Darfur Coalition. Anyone could call in and hear an update about developments on the ground in Darfur and Congo, and upcoming legislation, events and campaigns. Photo Credit: Camp by Mark Knobil.

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Darfur Kiva Mobile Donor 40

Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 17, 2007

According to their site: "The International Olympic Committee (IOC) awarded Beijing the 2008 Olympic Games in 2001, disregarding international criticism of China's human rights record. They've organized an international Olympic Torch Relay which began on August 9 in Chad, near the Darfur border, and will finish in China in January.

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China Darfur Burma Rwanda 40

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. YouTube makes it easy to post and host your video on their site using their servers and then easily embed it into your web site with no additional server load.

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Fun Consultant Darfur YouTube 40

Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 27, 2007

Starting today, nonprofits who offer Google Checkout for Non-Profits as a donation option -- whether through YouTube or on their own sites -- will receive 100 percent of donated funds, as Google has committed to processing all donations for free through at least the end of 2008. •

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YouTube Program Darfur Asia 40

Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 21, 2008

Effective sites and campaigns provide space for people to express themselves. March for Women's Lives allowed people who couldn't march to post messages and stories on the March for Women's Lives' web site. Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation created a site for young people. It is the most popular part of the site.

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Darfur Online Children Photo 41

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

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). That is a huge mistake.” starts around 16:46). “I

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Change Haiti Music Darfur 88

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. I joined the various Burma Facebook groups early on because my colleagues in Cambodia were involved from the beginning and documented some of the activism. serial activists???,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2007

I'm also highlighting this because it is a terrific example of using social news sites like Digg and Reddit o promote a cause (the Reddit guys were among my first video blog interviewees back in Nov. 2005 ) I had (wrongly) assumed that getting to the top of social news sites was a matter of dumb luck or that if something went viral.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2006

I learned about it from the site Changing the Present , a donation portal that also lets you set up a wish list of causes to support in lieu of gifts for the holidays or other occassions. They are still building out the content on the site and there is a growing list of nonprofit recipients. Stop the genocide in Darfur, that???d

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Personal Campaign Change Giving 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

I recently read an article about fundraising on social networking sites. two came to mind and rhyme: Fashion and Passion. One particular quote jumped out at me, "The Facebook generation wears their causes like the way they wear their favorite fashion.

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Profile Causes Burma Darfur 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2007

I liked the audio welcome message at this site. Some sites are using the blog feature to write about their organizations, while others haven't set it up. Save Darfur. "But when you are sent a message on MySpace you can click on the site and check out who else is involved in that particular project. s Web site.

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Myspace Profile Darfur Nonprofit 50

Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 16, 2007

In the NAIL case study on the Google Earth Outreach site , she describes the experience: "At the packed-to-overflowing community meeting in September, 2005, I first presented this KML to about 300 residents. Two years ago, Rebecca presented a logging flyover at a Neighbors Against Responsible Logging (NAIL) meeting. Marketing.

Google 40

Google Case Study San Francisco Files 40

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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Charity People Giving New York 40

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. Everyone is on YouTube. Our Terms of Use explain it all.

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YouTube Video Social Media Advocacy 34

Care2

AUGUST 16, 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. Everyone is on YouTube. Our Terms of Use explain it all.

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YouTube Social Media Video Advocacy 34

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

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. Humanity United (founded by Pam Omidyar) funded this work.

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Darfur Liberia Sri Lanka Colombia 100

Have Fun - Do Good

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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Darfur Sudan Interview Student 40

Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 3, 2009

According to the Genocide Prevention Month's site , the genocide in Bosnia began April 6, in Rwanda April 7, in Cambodia April 17, in Darfur April 19, in Armenia April 24, and the Holocast began April 21st. Did you know that six genocides began in the month of April?

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Darfur Armenia Bosnia Rwanda 45

NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Imagine a Jewish girl, selling Challah bread on a college campus in America to help support black Muslims in Darfur. PT's web site is constantly updated, another way to keep in touch and inform people. . Efrat Ben-Dor Erez, NPTech Israel. This amazing project , initiated by Eli Winkelman, came to life with the help of PresenTense.

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Google North America Management 88

See3

MAY 25, 2007

Facebook is the second big social networking site behind MySpace. These sites are places where I can make my page, connect with friends, ect. 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.

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See3

OCTOBER 22, 2007

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. I hope you can include Oxfam America Unwrapped on your site. This shows the viral potential of raising awareness in the social networks.

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America Social Media Myspace Second Life 40

Connection Cafe

MAY 13, 2009

USHMM : Crisis in Darfur - Visualized destruction in Darfur that was being publicly refuted - 50% increase in traffic to site - International visits went from 23-52%. More examples can be found on the Google Earth Outreach page of nonprofit case studies.). Yet to be determined.

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Tech Communication Tools Online 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

NpTech Themes Nptech Tag News: The NpTech Community site can be found at: [link]. 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.

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