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FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Since then, the platform (which is open source ) has been modified for use in South Africa (mapping xenophobic violence), DR Congo , Vote Report India (to monitor the recent local elections) and more. What we often think of as "social media" has given way to a larger movement, known as the Real-Time Web.

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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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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2007

The Congo Gorilla Forest , is a special exhibition produced by the Wildlife Conservation Society at the Bronx Zoo. 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.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 29, 2008

For example, most social networks are walled gardens. What I post on my Facebook page is only available to other people in the Facebook network. For example, the Holocaust Museum has a great Flash exhibition of Angelina Jolie’s trip to the Congo. I have a constant personal quandary about the social network ExhibitFiles.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 18, 2011

Of all the mass communications tools your organization is using (website e-newsletters, social networking sites, mobile), which is resulting in the most online dollars being raised (directly or indirectly)? Currently WITNESS’ e-newsletter helps raise the most online dollars.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Or maybe as more nonprofit explore the possibilities of location-based social networks and fundraising , the distinctions between online/offline fundraising will melt away. In 2007, WildlifeDirect had 7 blogs in the Democratic Republic of Congo written written about a specific animal by a conservation professional.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

In the next decades, we’ll see rapid adoption of social media for many nonprofit purposes, including fundraising and as gen y's come into their own as donors. Some of the new tools now being launched to create a single profile that can be used across social networks will as analysts predict make social networks like air.

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Care2

MAY 20, 2009

The first contest is "Come Clean 4 Congo" where Enough is asking the community to create a compelling video about the "conflict minerals" used in cell phones and the war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo –- the deadliest war since World War II. YouTube plans to launch the Video for Change campaigns four times a year.

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