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). Are there tools we can create that help people tell their own stories in fun, personal, engaging ways that change the world?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2009

The Save Darfur Coalition asks to organize events, vigils. remind them that the tools they use can only go so far. Create something to attend! easibey @ kanter actions that r easy/doable. They are quite successful - [link] jonratliff @ kanter face to face meetings deepen the enthusiasm for activism. I suggest a tweetup.

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JUNE 20, 2008

Amnesty International has a World Refugee Day Tool Kit that you can download, and provides recommendations for small events that you can organize at your home like a letter writing meeting, or a film screening of Chasing Freedom , Darfur Diaries , or Well-Founded Fear. Finally, World Refugee Day is also a day of celebration.

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JUNE 20, 2007

Like in January when Mia Farrow spoke in Second Life about Darfur at a virtual event sponsored by the U.S. The barriers to entry need to be a lot lower for it to be the collaboration tool that it has the potential to be. At first I really didn't want to. Holocaust Memorial Museum's Committee on Conscience. How often do you get to fly?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 19, 2008

moving from Darfur to Burma to whatever cause is next. s not neccesarily the tool for building an activist base.??? The hope is that some percentage of the people involved with these groups could turn into long-term advocates, but Jamal characterizes many of the users as ???serial serial activists???,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

As an activist and evangelist for Creative Commons' values and tools, I want to do my part in helping to ensure that our culture remains as free and accessible as possible. two came to mind and rhyme: Fashion and Passion. I have a strong interest in the future of my work and participatory culture.

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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. of game-based tools to public policy and management issues? It caught mine as I'm interested in the role of play in problem-solving, what ever the scope of the problem. From inspiring young cancer patients to fighting poverty to peaceful resistance of oppressive regimes.

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MARCH 21, 2008

Andresen noted, "No one here said, 'I gave or volunteered because of a tool,' like email or Twitter. 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. *

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2007

But there's strategy involved and a tool to help you execute it. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

I use a variety of tools for this analysis, including Google Analytics, Feedburner subscriber counts, and manually tracking comment to post ratios (typepad doesn't have a nifty plugin like wordpress to automate that grunge work) A tool that use to evlauate my content is PostRank. BackType: Another Listening Tool.

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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. But can games like Second Life be a useful tool for social change? Is it worth for nonprofits to invest?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2007

Save Darfur. Jobs With Justice. Katrina Stories. National Farmers Union. National Wildlife Federation. Medecins Sans Frontieres. Mothers Acting Up. Planned Parenthood. Rafiki's Children. Saving Pets and Shelters. School of America's Watch. Priscilla describes her own organization's activity on MySpace.

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OCTOBER 16, 2007

Then I used the Ruler tool in Google Earth to measure the distance from the logging zone to the preschool and daycare center: ~200 yards. 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).

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

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OCTOBER 29, 2007

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Benetech's newest project is a software tool called Miradi that helps environmental practitioners design, manage, monitor and learn from their projects to more effectively meet the needs of global biodiversity. This response is a measure of how eager the environmental field is for a tool that helps better manage projects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

the same tools that companies like Apple or Nike would use. You can create or simulate an experience that can evoke an emotional response from a visitor, as they have done with Camp Darfur. A successful social marketer is someone who really gets to know their audience ???

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MAY 21, 2008

The mission of the Genocide Intervention Network, or GI-Net, is to empower individuals and communities with the tools to prevent and stop genocide. My friend and colleague, Adam Sterling, was a 21-year-old student at UCLA when he first heard about the genocide in Darfur, and then he was outraged and decided he had to act.

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AUGUST 16, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" There are some great examples of nonprofits that are doing an excellent job with online video.

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JULY 14, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" There are some great examples of nonprofits that are doing an excellent job with online video.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2007

section about the genocide in Darfur, which includes information about direct action, as well as connection to a variety of social networks, blogs, and content about the situation. The Levine Museum model comes closer to the more nebulous "get engaged" empowerment goal of some museums, but does so by providing a practical tool for engagement.

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Care2

APRIL 22, 2009

Almost two years after Facebook Causes was launched, the tool still does not seem to be working for fundraising, except for a tiny group of nonprofits. It seemed too early to tell, but then, when we checked back about a year later, we found this interesting and profound story about the nonprofit group "Save Darfur."

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JANUARY 5, 2007

The Exploratorium did the solar eclipse, and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum is doing all kinds of programs around Darfur. And it’s worth pointing out that while Second Life can be used in an escapist way as a fantasy land, it’s also a communication tool. Are we escaping reality when we use the web? Use the phone?

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AUGUST 31, 2010

Imagine a Jewish girl, selling Challah bread on a college campus in America to help support black Muslims in Darfur. At the seminars, the fellows participate in an intensive tech treating session, and are provided with tech tools to enhance their projects, like weebly.com , which provides a free tool for building basic web-sites. . .

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MAY 25, 2007

And they opened up their own development tools to the developers. Go and develop not a simple embeddable widget, but go and development in a native environment that makes use of all the tools we have, the connections between people, for example. So Facebook said go and develop.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 13, 2009

The first full session I was able to catch was “Tools Galore in Online Communications” moderated by Netsquared’s Amy Sample Ward with speakers Natalie Foster , Director of New Media for the Democratic National Committee , Rebecca Moore, Google Earth Outreach and Laura Quinn, Executive Director of Idealware.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

Vendor and Tool Talk: Personal Democracy Forum tells all on CRM Vendors according to the nonprofittechhelp blog. A list of tools and resources for Democracy Building and Civic Engagement from the Berkman-Sunlight workshop. The e-Campaigning Tool for plone can do petitions, letters to targets, and other campaign related activities.

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