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Social Networks for Social Change: Ivan Boothe Knows What He Is Talking About!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So he cautioned me that some of the information might not be entirely up to date that he shared on listserv including a pointer to his awesome slide show with audio. For instance, when we first started organizing on Facebook in 2005, we found many existing groups on campuses working to end the genocide in Darfur.

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Peace Games & International Efforts

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Darfur Is Dying was the result. The founder and creator of game consulted people in Darfur. Darfur is Dying was created at last year's GFC. How can we take it into the digital world. We announced a contest to create a game to address issue in Sudan. More than the addictive nature of game, the action it can take.

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Vote for the First Anti-Genocide Hotline on Reddit

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

net/OneMinute Prior to this action, we used Collactive twice to promote particular op-eds (one in the Boston Globe and one in the LA Times) that aligned with our positions on how to stop genocide in Darfur. now off to integrate it into my slides show for my session at the Bridge Conference on Tuesday. Thanks Ivan.

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Best of Beth's Blog 2008: Finding The Top Ten Posts In Less Than Five MInutes!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Graphing Social Patterns: My Slides. Be A Voice for Darfur: Great Example of A Multi-Channel Campaign. How To Share the Social Media Workload in Your Organization. Twitter on Paper Icebreaker. Nonprofit Blogging Policies. The Kids in Cambodia Say Thank You. Giving Good Poke. America's Giving Challenge: We Came In First!

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Reflections on Mixed Reality Events in Second Life

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Facebook Platform – Opening Up

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Embedding a YouTube video is a widget, as are fundraising widgets , Flickr photostream, Photobucket, Slide and many others. Their application is called Causes, and when you sign up you can pick from many causes, such as Save Darfur or One.org. My Google home page has a weather widget, clock widget and of course RSS feed widget.