Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2006

You can post your wish as a comment. over The Million Dollar Blog - the Internet Wishing Well, and for each comment they donate $1 to charity. They are challenging people to make it a million dollar blog post, with 1 million comments. Stop the genocide in Darfur, that???d So, here is how it works. Big or small.it

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2007

Through the channel, people can connect with a nonprofit via messages, subscriptions, comments and more. YouTube Nonprofit Program participants will receive: • A premium channel on YouTube that serves as a nonprofit’s hub for their uploaded videos. Nonprofits will also receive enhanced channel branding features and increased upload capacity.

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OCTOBER 25, 2007

Here’s an example in the channel page: 24 Hours for Darfur Channel Here’s an example on the standard video page: 24 Hours for Darfur standard view If you are a 501(c)3 it’s a no-brainer to sign up. Like with comments, the system could tell a non-registered user that they needed to register.)

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OCTOBER 25, 2007

Here’s an example in the channel page: 24 Hours for Darfur Channel Here’s an example on the standard video page: 24 Hours for Darfur standard view If you are a 501(c)3 it’s a no-brainer to sign up. Like with comments, the system could tell a non-registered user that they needed to register.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2007

net/OneMinute Prior to this action, we used Collactive twice to promote particular op-eds (one in the Boston Globe and one in the LA Times) that aligned with our positions on how to stop genocide in Darfur. You can see our action in the message below, or by going to: [link].net/OneMinute

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

Katya Andresen , Network for Good, offers some insights in the comments : We, too, are working on understanding how to find more superactivists and how to make the long tail of less active evangelists more engaged. two came to mind and rhyme: Fashion and Passion. And given that the network is increasingly going to be the point of contact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2007

Save Darfur. 1) Center your "Friends" and "Comments" section. 8) Post comment images that are no larger than 600 pixels in width. 8) Post comment images that are no larger than 600 pixels in width. Jobs With Justice. Katrina Stories. National Farmers Union. National Wildlife Federation. s Web site.

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MARCH 21, 2008

Two of their staff members recently returned from Darfur and are putting together a video to raise awareness about it. They are collecting questions from supporters about Darfur to include in the video. * One commenter wrote, "I hate these commercials." . * Oxfam has used Flickr petitions successfully in several campaigns.

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OCTOBER 22, 2007

84% of people comment, 82% message others, and 39% create content. Tim says MySpace is not good for fundraising, although we have seen some examples of orgs running successful fundraising campaigns, such as Dollars for Darfur. Share and Enjoy: 5 Comments comment UN Foundation Web Team Blog [.]

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

My social marketing colleague Craig Lefebvre, who has a blog ( On Social Marketing and Social Change ), asked me to expand some comments I had made on the Social Marketing Listserve as a guest blogger. A wonderful side benefit is all of the new friends and colleagues I have met as a result of writing the blog and commenting on other blogs.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2007

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OCTOBER 29, 2007

Voters are encouraged to vote for as many groups as they can in order to generate a comprehensive peace platform that encompasses the issues that are most important to each person, whether it’s the war in Iraq, nuclear weapons, Darfur or global conflict. To create a new comment, use the form below. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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MARCH 12, 2008

Hollywood celebrities have become central players on deeply political issues like development aid, refugees and government-sponsored violence in Darfur. Share and Enjoy: One Comment comment » Why do people give charity? [.] For Good, Measure This article is about how foundations have found Jesus in metrics.

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AUGUST 16, 2008

YouTube has an incredibly diverse and engaged global community who not only post videos, but interact with each other through text comments, video responses, and messages. One example is 24HoursforDarfur who has collected over 800 videos from celebrities, elected officials, and citizens urging Congress to do more about the genocide in Darfur.

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JULY 14, 2008

YouTube has an incredibly diverse and engaged global community who not only post videos, but interact with each other through text comments, video responses, and messages. One example is 24HoursforDarfur who has collected over 800 videos from celebrities, elected officials, and citizens urging Congress to do more about the genocide in Darfur.

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JUNE 25, 2007

section about the genocide in Darfur, which includes information about direct action, as well as connection to a variety of social networks, blogs, and content about the situation. The US Holocaust Memorial Museum includes a Committee on Conscience , which advocates and educates about acts of genocide around the world.

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JANUARY 5, 2007

I’m not an expert on museums who can comment on why museums have websites and what they use that platform for. The Exploratorium did the solar eclipse, and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum is doing all kinds of programs around Darfur. That is its primary strength, whereas the web’s is efficiently communicating information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

I use a variety of tools for this analysis, including Google Analytics, Feedburner subscriber counts, and manually tracking comment to post ratios (typepad doesn't have a nifty plugin like wordpress to automate that grunge work) A tool that use to evlauate my content is PostRank. You can actually go back and review your entire feed.

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MAY 25, 2007

Share and Enjoy: One Comment comment See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » An Open API is the New Black [.] Their application is called Causes, and when you sign up you can pick from many causes, such as Save Darfur or One.org. See Read/Write Web coverage here.

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MAY 13, 2009

USHMM : Crisis in Darfur - Visualized destruction in Darfur that was being publicly refuted - 50% increase in traffic to site - International visits went from 23-52%. Drop me a line in the comments and I'll add you to the ongoing list of coverage! Women Who Tech (via the Sunlight Foundation).

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JANUARY 18, 2010

His comments for Martin Luther King Day are included below, and the link to his blog above will take you to the half dozen or so essays he does annually. We see the tragic consequences when fear and hatred win out over the Golden Rule in places like the Middle East, Iran, North Korea, Darfur, Zimbabwe, and Myanmar.

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