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How Save the Children Is Using An Edgy Infographic As Part of A Multi-Channel Campaign for Children in Syria

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Save the Children’s Ettoré Rossetti, Director of Digital Marketing & Social Media for Save the Children USA, emailed me an infographic on the impact of the Syria crisis on children. The crisis in Syria is now entering year three and the situation is getting worse for children not better. Seems a little edgy?

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Mission Possible: Tell Us Your Symantec Story and Win Prizes!

Tech Soup

Now is the time to send in your nonprofit's story! Share your story. The 2016 TechSoup Symantec Success Story Challenge (the "Challenge"). Visit the Success Stories landing page at [link] to enter your submission. (a) b) Story Submission. We'll announce the winners the week of September 26, 2016.

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Facebook Radically Changed the News Feed – Here’s What Your Nonprofit Needs to Know

Connection Cafe

Public content from businesses, brands and media has “crowded out the personal moments that lead us to connect more with each other.” How will the News Feed rank public content? But now Facebook is putting an end to almost all organic public content that doesn’t “encourage meaningful interactions between people.”.

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The Nonprofit Weekly Roundup: Culture, Microsites, and The Kiss of Death

Connection Cafe

President Obama publicly addressed the situation surrounding Syria. Tell stories. As you write your three letters (as he suggests), focus on connecting and telling stories. There were some pretty huge moments this week. Fashion Week came to a close in NYC. I purchased a blue wig. (I’ll I’ll explain at a later date.

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The Best Nonprofit Social Media Campaigns of 2017

NonProfit Hub

Volunteers interviewed nine Syrian refugees who crossed the Mediterranean to Greece about their lives before they left Syria. Each of their stories was then illustrated on used life jackets, taken from the beaches of Greece where refugees arrive. Ask people to tell their stories.

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International Organizations and Social Media: News, Engagement, and Social Data for Policy Change

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The study’s author, Matthias Lufkens , says that the most successful organisations are those that use Twitter to make connections and tell stories, not just broadcast news. Social Media Data and Public Policy. It has value for government, the policy community and public service delivery organisations.

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Silicon Valley Human Rights Conference

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

She recalled that when Yemen decided to ban Al-Jazeera, activists there bridged the gap by recording videos on their phones, posting the footage to YouTube and Facebook, linking content directly to the Al-Jazeera stream and then tweeting the story. When you restrict me from doing this, you violate my human rights."