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Habitat for Humanity focuses on periodically posting curated content relevant to the cause of homelessness and housing. Over the decade that followed, most groups became overrun with spam and tech glitches, and as a result, LinkedIn Groups almost became obsolete. Curated content relevant to your mission.
Jared Paul, the co-founder of a new nonprofit that has a focus on homeless youth and one of the winners of the $25,000 in the first phase of Chase's Giving Community Contest offered to share his thoughts. Earlier this month, I sent out a few tweets asking for the counterpoint to Hildy's view.
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We tune into causes through our relationships with others, whether its a kid from our neighborhood in a youth group, our sister doing a breast cancer run, or our friend organizing a reading night at a homeless shelter. The reality is, we're all bombarded with digital messages and shares and likes and spam.
Not surprisingly, a different focus group of social service providers and homeless adults had a very different set of concerns about downtown. Part of this is rooted in a legitimate desire not to spam people. When I've talked with those same folks in bridged groups, they use more circumspect language (i.e. But those concerns are real.
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Rik wrote a great post this called Global Poverty Death Counter: good cause, @!#(*@() implementation (Rik used another word in the headline, but I don't any trackback spam). Today, I got a report via the TechSoup Second Life listserv about an awareness-raising campaign for homeless children in Second Life - reported here , here and here.
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