Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 29, 2010

That shortchanges Larry’s background: he was the key leader in the campaign to eliminate smallpox in India, cofounded the Seva Foundation and a couple of high tech companies, and was most recently running Google.org. Mousa and I talked about his dream of helping centers for blind people in Iraq get the tech equipment they need.

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The Verge

MARCH 8, 2021

The game, which takes place during the Iraq War’s Second Battle of Fallujah, has come under scrutiny for seemingly portraying a US-centric focus on a campaign in which an estimated 800 Iraqi civilians were killed, according to the Red Cross. “We

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

The Obama campaign, for one. How the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America is using the web to bring back together their band of brothers and sisters. My co-author, Allison Fine and I found many great examples of successful activism using these tools as part of multi-channel campaigns in our book The Networked Nonprofit.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 19, 2009

In some cases, the information is intended for use in court cases or international prosecution, to support a human rights report, or advocacy campaign. Other times it is collected to record the human rights environment in a given context, perhaps a conflict or post-conflict situation.

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The Verge

APRIL 12, 2021

Facebook moves swiftly to deal with coordinated campaigns to sway politics in wealthy countries like the US, South Korea, and Taiwan, while it de-prioritizes or simply ignores reports of similar activity in poorer nations like Afghanistan, Iraq, Mexico, and much of Latin America.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 8, 2007

According to UNIFEM's, "Gender Profile-Iraq-Women, War & Peace," : "[M]ore than 90 women become widows each day due to continuing violence countrywide. March 20th is the 4th anniversary of the Iraq War. March 20th is the 4th anniversary of the Iraq War. Today, March 8th, is International Women's Day. What is CODEPINK?

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 3, 2005

Most weeks his podcast is a direct chat with his listeners, but this week he posted a recent speech, "Moving Forward in Iraq" that he gave at the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations. Moving Forward in Iraq Tuesday, November 22, 2005 Senator Barack Obama Chicago Council on Foreign Relations Chicago, IL Good afternoon.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 7, 2007

Friday, May 11th will be the 3rd annual Mother's Day "Peace of the Pie" National Action Day as part of The Peace Alliance's campaign for a U.S. Campaign supporters are asked to bring pies to their local Congressional offices and let their Congresspeople know that "Peace wants a Piece of the Pie" (the federal budget).

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See3

MAY 25, 2007

Gore suggested that if the net was as powerful six years ago as it was today, that maybe we wouldn’t have had so many yes votes for the Iraq war because the press would have been pressured to tell the American people more directly that Iraq was not responsible for 9-11 (which 70% of Americans believed and 50% still believe.)

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2011

Convio makes it pretty easy to whip up campaigns that empower constituents, expand our network of supporters, and most importantly, catalyze change. EG for CC: Share an anecdote about a project or specific campaign you worked on through Convio that was particularly exciting, interesting, or productive. BR for POGO: Action alerts!

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Care2

JUNE 28, 2009

The study analyzed 79 nonprofit organizations and their fundraising campaigns via direct mail, online fundraising, telemarketing, and canvassing. According to the latest Target Analytics Index of National Fundraising Performance , the number of new donors dropped by almost 13%, as compared to 2008.

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See3

DECEMBER 17, 2007

This is the first year I am seeing this idea used by a political campaign. I received an email just now from the Iowa State Director of the Obama campaign. In his email he tells me that they have opened up their budgets and now I can sponsor a specific aspect of their Iowa campaign.

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Care2

JUNE 29, 2009

The study analyzed 79 nonprofit organizations and their fundraising campaigns via direct mail, online fundraising, telemarketing and canvassing. According to the latest Target Analytics Index of National Fundraising Performance , the number of new donors dropped by almost 13%, as compared to 2008.

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Care2

OCTOBER 29, 2007

Also in the running and campaigning hard are (in alphabetical order) Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation; Citizens for Global Solutions, Faithful Security; Genocide Intervention Network; Global Green USA; National Religious Campaign Against Torture; and Women’s Action for New Directions.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 27, 2008

I suspect that we’ll know a lot more about the answer to this question after 2008 and the folks who have been doing some of the amazing work in campaigns can share what they’ve learned. We’ve done a lot of work in these early phases of social networking and web 2.0 Online Political Advertising in the 2008 Elections.

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Care2

AUGUST 29, 2008

In 1996 a friend and I did a study of presidential campaign websites. In 2003, I started paying attention to the nascent campaign for president of an obscure ex-governor of Vermont named Howard Dean. I am surprised at how open to innovation so many campaigns and consultants are. No real interactivity.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

In 1996 a friend and I did a study of presidential campaign websites. In 2003, I started paying attention to the nascent campaign for president of an obscure ex-governor of Vermont named Howard Dean. I am surprised at how open to innovation so many campaigns and consultants are. No real interactivity.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

And here’s Anthony, he was in one of my wounded veteran programs that these young men and women who’ve lost their legs and arms in Iraq and Afghanistan. Make sure that you’re connecting the donor to whatever it is, the campaign, and the item, or the sponsorship, or whatever it is, the programming. What do I say?”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2013

As you can see, the design is a bit edgy – and its part of new multi-channel campaign that hopes to activate activists and ignite conversations. Of course, the infographic alone is not enough – it’s part of a multi-channel campaign. This infographic is part of a multi-channel campaign. Seems a little edgy?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2014

One has to step back and marvel at the most successful networked fundraising campaigns in the history of social or crowd fundraising. 2) Playing on Memes: The campaign took advantage of social media narcissism for a good cause. 2) Playing on Memes: The campaign took advantage of social media narcissism for a good cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2014

Participants do a video of themselves dumping the water on their heads or donating, and tagging other people in their network to do the same. This was not a campaign started by the ALS Association, but young people who wanted to support the cause. But the evidence is to the contrary. Fundraising'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2007

" So, it comes as no surprise that every holiday season the magazine chooses nonprofit partners and runs a fundraising/subscription campaign. Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America , founded in June 2004, is the nation's first and largest group dedicated to the Troops and Veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2007

What is interesting to me about this concept of a platform for change that is very different from say - campaigns on social networking sites like Facebook or the use of widgets and charity badges on blogs for personal fundraising campaigns -- is that while Virtual Worlds are empowering individuals -- we are empowering collective action.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

The Iraq War was raging. Billy was formerly director of partnerships at Meetup.com and had shown the power of it during the 2004 presidential campaign. In the beginning, TechSoup’s Marnie Webb, Daniel Ben-Horin, and Billy Bicket created NetSquared to "remix the web for social change." " The year was 2005.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 18, 2007

Journal of a Young Activist write about her travels and human rights work in Palestine, Israel, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and Afghanistan, and her life as a Chicago Seminary Student. She writes for Our Bodies, Our Blog (about women's health and feminism) and manages the web site, Women's Voices for Change.

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See3

DECEMBER 19, 2007

The video debates—which received one comment, two stars, and was favorited by no one—featured candidates answering a variety of viewer-generated questions ranging from health care to the Iraq war, and racked up 4,881,990 fewer views than a 56-second video of a sleepy cat posted the same day. “Don’t tase me, bro!&# “Oww!

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

But those projects are just the most public face of our portfolio that includes print, web and strategy materials for the planet's most influential non-profits, political campaigns and socially responsible businesses." Participant Media "Participant believes that a good story well told can truly make a difference in how one sees the world.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

The local radio, TV and internet awareness campaign has a slightly more generous timeline of May 15 to be actioned.) based company to stop processing locals’ data. The DPA has given OpenAI a deadline — of April 30 — to get the regulator’s compliance demands done.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

The speakers were Alli Chagi-Starr, who is the Co-Founder of Art in Action ; Ilyse Hogue, the Campaign Director for MoveOn.org ; Melinda Kramer, the Founder and Director of Women's Earth Alliance ; and Reem Rahim, the Co-Founder and Vice President of Marketing for Numi Tea. I am the Campaign Director at MoveOn.org. We are a 3.5

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Human Rights Campaign. Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. National Campaign to Prevent Teenage Pregnancy. Because factory farming, fur farming, puppy mills, and lab research on animals is cruel. Facebook || Twitter || Google+ || LinkedIn || YouTube || Flickr. Because all American men (and women!)

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 20, 2011

Human Rights Campaign. Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. National Campaign to Prevent Teenage Pregnancy. Because factory farming, fur farming, puppy mills, and lab research on animals is cruel. Facebook || Twitter || Google+ || LinkedIn || YouTube || Flickr. Because all American men (and women!)

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NTEN

DECEMBER 1, 2013

Global Fund for Women GlobalGiving Good360 Goodwill Industries International Goodwill Industries of Akron GRACE Greater Twin Cities United Way Healthy Schools Campaign Healthy Teen Network Helen Keller International Immigration Equality Interfaith Worker Justice Ipas Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America IREX Irving Cares LeadingAge League of Women (..)

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Earlier this month I spoke with MECA’s Development Director, Deborah Agre, to talk about some recent campaigns as well as year-end strategy! Over the 30 years of our organization, we’ve sent over 25 million dollars in direct aid consisting of food, medical supplies, books, and toys to Palestine, Iraq, and Lebanon.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

The special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction, as another example, identified nearly $2 billion in financial benefits, including nearly $645 million in direct savings and more than $192 million in court-ordered recoveries.

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The Verge

AUGUST 18, 2020

FuckJerry-style aggregation meets campaigning The anti-Trump Lincoln Project has a reputation for goofy memes attacking the Trump administration online, so when they posted a whimsical fancam in support of the United States Postal Service on Twitter over the weekend, it seemed par for the course. It’s a large part of the reason Sen.

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The Verge

JULY 27, 2021

Is he president of the United States without having a demonstrable speech where he came out against the Iraq War? And I’m like, well, the Iraq War in hindsight. I would argue, I mean, the Iraq War to me is a formative political moment. This has been a 45-year campaign. And it’s been a sustained campaign.

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The Verge

JUNE 9, 2020

Instead of banning all “political” discussions, for example, moderators who want to avoid politics are encouraged to prohibit “discussions on legislation, political candidates, or specific campaigns.” Facebook and Twitter removed a Trump campaign video tribute to George Floyd after a copyright complaint. Governing. ?

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