Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

Here's the information on the notecard: Please join us in solidarity for the monks in Burma who are beng killed and imprisoned.a Contact US Campaign for Burma to sign up to hold a march, vigil or any sort of event in your area- thelma@uscampaignforburma.org there is also a protest being held on Burning Life sim today.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 19, 2008

I joined the various Burma Facebook groups early on because my colleagues in Cambodia were involved from the beginning and documented some of the activism. I helped her track down the people behind the Support the monks Campaign and Facebook Burma Group, an unofficial representative in the UK named Imran Jamal, Burma Global Action Network.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Fenton creates issue campaigns that make change. One Million Bones is a collaborative art installation designed to recognize the millions of victims and survivors who have been killed or displaced by ongoing genocides and mass atrocities in Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Burma.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2008

The 15-page PDF includes the pros and cons of using Facebook for activism, a step-by-step guide to organizing an activism campaign on Facebook, and examples of campaigns from Burma, Morocco, and Egypt. He was one of 27 individuals to win the first Knight News Challenge. It is a quick read and very useful.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 20, 2007

Take part in campaigns that already exist. On September 28th you could have uploaded a photo of yourself wearing a red shirt to Flickr to show your solidarity with the monks in Burma as part of Red Shirt Day for Burma/Birma/ Myanmar. You can still add your own red photo to the Burma Free - Birmania Libera Flickr pool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

Flickr Photo by Villoks Many people around the world are supporting the Monks in Burma by wearing red t-shirts today or participating in vigils like this one in Cambodia outside the Burma embassy. So, while it may very difficult to find Internet content from Burma, it is getting onto the Internet.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 17, 2007

The 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing is providing leverage for Tibetan, Darfurian, Burmese and Chinese human rights campaigns: The International Campaign for Tibet created the Race for Tibet. The US Campaign for Burma is asking for a boycott of the Games: "China is paralyzing UN Security Council action on Burma.

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Steve Bridger

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Kudos to Simon Berry and the distributed Colalife team, for this one, and their intelligent and relentless campaign. Just this morning, Mark Charmer of Akvo alerted me to a United Nations University study , which says providing sanitation and safe water is the top route to reducing world poverty.

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 9, 2008

Post a Comment The Magic of Giving › about steve More about Steve Bridger RSS All posts All comments My blogging journey After Wilma Mexicanwave nfp 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

to support the monks in Burma. on my blog in support of Creative Commons Annual Campaign and gave some money too. " While technically, I'm probably way over the legal age limit to be included in the Facebook Generation, nonetheless I'm once again wearing one of my one of my favorite causes as fashion on my blog this month.

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 24, 2008

[link] Wednesday, July 9, 2008 at 8:48 pm | Permalink Post a Comment ‹ The Magic of Giving All 2gether now › about steve More about Steve Bridger RSS All posts All comments My blogging journey After Wilma Mexicanwave nfp 2.0

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 24, 2008

[link] Wednesday, July 9, 2008 at 8:48 pm | Permalink Post a Comment ‹ The Magic of Giving All 2gether now › about steve More about Steve Bridger RSS All posts All comments My blogging journey After Wilma Mexicanwave nfp 2.0

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

We've also had major efforts in Burma, Sri Lanka and Guatemala, to name a few; efforts we expect to continue this year. During our recent campaign to recruit new team members, Benetech has attracted qualified candidates by offering more than just good pay and a pleasant work environment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

The Fellows provide much needed energy, expertise and enthusiasm while being exposed to to the compelling, challenging, essential and often dangerous work done by campaigners for human rights and social justice. Help A Family of Five in Burma Stay Alive. More than just a gift, LiA is an experience that makes Africa feel closer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Ethan Zuckerman gives a summary of Pros/Cons of facebook Activism , a presentation by Imran Jamal and the Burma Global Action Network. Social Media A couple of really useful posts on Facebook and Nonprofits. If you're coming to NTEN's NTC Conference next month, you can experience this technology first-hand.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

He talked about his first personal fundraising campaign - for cancer research in his mother's memory. Disaster Relief: Described their efforts for Tsunami and Katrina and mentioned efforts for Burma and China. Bill Strathmann Opened with his personal story about he got started with Networked For Good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2008

The Burma: It Can't Wait Campaign launched not too long ago by the U.S. Campaign for Burma. They have put up a mini site that is tracking the latest news and information from Burma and how to help. That took me like 15-20 minutes.

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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. The power of the Obama campaign was translating online activity to real world impact. We’ve seen potential for those unsympathetic to the cause to use the technology too – a bit of an arms race created. It can be broad but shallow.

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 25, 2008

The reality that to consider social as just a part of a campaign is to critically misunderstand the audience expectations, and the opportunity. Tuesday, January 12, 2010 at 7:04 am | Permalink Mark Jennings wrote: Excellent post, as @joannejacobs said it could be an answer to my post today on [link] and the one previous!

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