Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2009

The Save Darfur Coalition asks to organize events, vigils. They will carry your msg, enthusiasm back offline Mary_Joyce @ kanter , Obama campaign used MyBO to ask online supporters to host house parties to reach out to their offline social networks tomjd @ kanter Make it as easy and intuitive as possible. Create something to attend!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2006

In-world speakers from nonprofits who spoke about their work included Evonne Heyning from Camp Darfur, Barry Joseph from Global Kids , Lori Bell from the Library Alliance , and Marc Sirkin from LLS. I found it more engaging than participating in a hosted chat discussion and watching text stream across the screen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2007

Save Darfur. Jobs With Justice. Katrina Stories. National Farmers Union. National Wildlife Federation. Medecins Sans Frontieres. Mothers Acting Up. Planned Parenthood. Rafiki's Children. Saving Pets and Shelters. School of America's Watch. Priscilla describes her own organization's activity on MySpace.

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See3

OCTOBER 22, 2007

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. They ran their contest on YouTube, but See3 has a private label, fully customizable video contest hosting, management, and marketing solution.

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Museum 2.0

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. Clear way for me to quickly affect the situation (sign petition, give money, host an event, volunteer at a phone bank) right now.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 5, 2007

The Exploratorium did the solar eclipse, and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum is doing all kinds of programs around Darfur. It seems like the real world museums that are starting to work in Second Life are pursuing the social interaction element of the platform through events.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

East Coast Michael Stein who is based in DC is delighted he doesn't have to get on an airplane this year and is hosting a session on microformats. Zen of Technology blog grumbles about a different sort of micro. Here's a back to the future video from NTC back in 2000 when it was called the roundup. Check it out.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 22, 2015

For the first year ever, we’re hosting a social media lounge where the focus is going to be about taking all of the amazing conversations that are happening within the convention walls and sharing them online. And we’ll be hosting some killer pop-up sessions throughout the conference: Cause for Change with Derrick Feldmann.

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