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Second Life: Issue Awareness Raising Campaigns

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Today, I got a report via the TechSoup Second Life listserv about an awareness-raising campaign for homeless children in Second Life - reported here , here and here. Actress and activist Mia Farrow will discuss and answer questions about the worsening situation in Darfur and neighboring Chad at a virtual press event in Second Life.

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Great reads from around the web on April 8th

Amy Sample Ward

" The US will use Twitter and Facebook to issue terror alerts – "The U.S. government is working on a new warning system to replace their oft criticized five-color coded terror index, and according to a new document obtained by The Associated Press, they're turning to Facebook and Twitter."

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Discussion of Donor Data Retention

Robert Weiner

The same topic came up recently on the APRA''s listserve, PRSPCT-L. The only potential issue here is then you need to consider an additional record as part of the retention schedule, though if this were also 7 years, you would conceivably be able to access records of people who had been inactive for up to 14 years.

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Advice for Consultants - Part 3

Robert Weiner

develop templates for proposals and contracts (Nolo Press is a great resource for contracts). Browse the back issues of CharityChannel's Nonprofit Consultants Review: [link]. Sign up for CharityChannel’s CONSULTANTS listserve: [link]. Deal with legal and administrative stuff, such as: get a business license.

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Case Study: How Human Rights Watch Leverages Employee Personal Brands on Twitter

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In addition, they have an internal listserv for support where staff share suggested tweets for new reports or new features or techniques on Twitter. Many tweets lead to press calls.”. Twitter is also used as a complementary advocacy strategy when reaching out to policymakers on a human rights issue. There’s another benefit.

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Purpose Prize Awards $100K to Social Justice Innovators Over 60

Care2

Check out the Purpose Prize , which is looking to award up to $100K to social innovators who are creating new ways to solve pressing social issues, ranging from education to health care to poverty and global warming. Do you know someone over 60 who is changing the world? The deadline is March 5, 2009.

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Groundswell Book Club Part 4: Customer Support

Museum 2.0

Because this is fundamentally about connecting visitors with each other in discussion about the most pressing issues related to the institution. Many of us use listservs to get answers to our museum-related questions and find out what others are doing. Why should museums care about customer support?

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