Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Evaluating Next-Gen Volunteer Opportunity Platforms: Forget about the high school community service club : The next generation of volunteering platforms is here -- from Google's All for Good to the President's Serve.gov. Twitterstorm, anyone? Carie Lewis. But can they also combat apathy? Submitted by Jacob Colker. By Skylar Woodward.

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

Evaluating Next-Gen Volunteer Opportunity Platforms: Forget about the high school community service club : The next generation of volunteering platforms is here -- from Google's All for Good to the President's Serve.gov. Twitterstorm, anyone? Carie Lewis. But can they also combat apathy? Submitted by Jacob Colker. By Skylar Woodward.

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Forum One

MAY 27, 2009

In this case. Read More » Entrepreneurship and Internet Diplomacy in the Muslim and Arab World Sarah Hassaine in Influence 17 May 2010 When President Obama took the stage in Cairo, Egypt last year, millions tuned in to hear his approach for improved U.S.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 27, 2007

Yes, much was generated by the game masters, but there are now 143,000 google hits for "world without oil," the majority of which are player-generated blogs, livejournals, photo pages, videos, you name it. There are also "threads" on the right column that present a variety of player-created tours of the archives.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

That ethos continued until the last three years or so with issues in Burma, Iran, and China. In Iran we’ve seen it used to get out information and resist censorship but have also seen it used by the government to alter a mobile phone system and monitoring calls. Technology is amoral – it doesn’t care.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 18, 2011

The blog has been the key standardized staple that helps to regularly generate content for readers, which then is further shared via Twitter and Facebook. Our most useful social media tool is our blog site, especially for discussing WITNESS’ campaigns and sharing many of our and others videos. This helps to amplify discussions and messaging.

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Care2

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Women in Iran and protestors on Wall Street think so. During the Iran protests in February of 2011, a woman who was raped, sexually assaulted and beaten once she was identified as a "rioter" simply for voting, had no voice and little way to speak out about her experience. Social media may be changing that across the globe.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 6, 2007

When you go to bed at night and you are thinking, "Oh my God where am I going to come up with the money to do this next project," and you have to hustle and go out there and do it, or you have to develop a business model that can generate its own money to do that. There are people in positions of power in places like Iran and Washington, D.C.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

. · A breakout panel on how demographics are driving politics, where Simon Rosenberg, Morley Winograd (of NDN.org ), and Jose Vargas of the Washington Post shared research on how the Millennial generation, and Hispanic voters are critical groups to cultivate for both parties. Currently both lean heavily Democratic and voted for Obama in ‘08.

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