Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

Community Funded Reporting : The news industry is dying but in its wake are new business models to support investigative journalism. Where does it surpass the traditional advertising model? Will traditional nonprofits need to adopt new technologies and fundraising models as donors demand greater accountability for their funds?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Community Funded Reporting : The news industry is dying but in its wake are new business models to support investigative journalism. Where does it surpass the traditional advertising model? Will traditional nonprofits need to adopt new technologies and fundraising models as donors demand greater accountability for their funds?

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AUGUST 21, 2009

Community Funded Reporting : The news industry is dying but in its wake are new business models to support investigative journalism. Where does it surpass the traditional advertising model? Will traditional nonprofits need to adopt new technologies and fundraising models as donors demand greater accountability for their funds?

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 12, 2015

As The Daily Beast senior correspondent for national security and politics Josh Rogin put it : Movements.org "seeks to put activists in closed societies in touch with skilled people in the free world who can help them. It's crowdsourcing for human rights."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

As our Industrial Institutions fail to cope and to help people, we are seeing a new model for coping where people are connecting to each other to find networked and personal solutions to problems. . This new model is the antithesis of the model that it may replace. Clear signs of what this new model are all over the place.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

That ethos continued until the last three years or so with issues in Burma, Iran, and China. In Iran we’ve seen it used to get out information and resist censorship but have also seen it used by the government to alter a mobile phone system and monitoring calls. It’s very different than your traditional model.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 6, 2007

There are two models of growth. Britt: You've used entrepreneurial models in combination with nonprofits, with Global Exchange, and now the Global Citizen Center. Some people are saying that the nonprofit model is fading out, and that we need more social entrepreneurship. How do we grow the organization?

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