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Second Life Joins Worldwide Effort to End Child Hunger

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

On Sunday, 13 May 2007, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and partners are teaming up to call for an end to child hunger. Fight Hunger: Walk the World??? This year, for the first time, Walk the World will also take place in Second Life. to raise awareness and funds to assist the world's poorest children.

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World Vision in Second Life

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We are also one of the largest, presently helping more than 100 million people in nearly 100 countries in their struggle against poverty, hunger and injustice, irrespective of their religious beliefs. You can to it in Second Life here. There is a chicken animation where your avatar can move around like a chicken.

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Fight Hunger's Click To Feed A Child Campaign Facebook App

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Today I discovered the Fight Hunger's Click to Feed a Child. I also discovered a group called " I will donate $1 for every person that joins this group to Fight Hunger " which is being organized by some super activists high school kids.). (I 19 cents to the program. My click was 1,292,019. Let's do the math on that one.

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Meet Connie Reece: Using Social Media to Strike Back At Ike

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Recently we set up an office in Second Life, on the Nonprofit Commons Plush island, and we just purchased our own island in Second Life. This month we organized a HAM-up Tweetup (HAM because September is Hunger Awareness Month) to benefit the Capital Area Food Bank. d never seen so many first-time blood donors.

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Social Media 101 TweetChat Recap: Tagging

Tech Soup

Check out TechSoup's Nonprofits in Second Life Delicious group page for an example of how multiple users can collaborate with social bookmarking. " UNICEF used mobile tagging technology to raise awareness of the childhood hunger and raise money. The campaign.

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NpTech Tag: Socially Responsible Idol, Nptech Meebo Chat at PDF Conference, and Personal Fundraising

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Fight Hunger shares the results and learnings from its Second Life fundraising event "Walk the World." " And now, you can bookmark Second Life locations (called slurls) into del.icio.us Peter Dietz has an article explaining why we need group fundraising RSS feeds. without leaving the virtual world!

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NpTech Tag Summary: Chimp Personality, Convio Open API, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Help with world hunger by providing rice to hungry people for free. A screencapture from a recent weekly meeting for TechSoup's Nonprofit Commons project in Second Life. Want to get started in Second Life, check out. Want to get started in Second Life, check out. blog thought it was cool too.

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