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Social Good Summit in NY

August 16, 2011 – 10:50 am

M4ID will also be attending the Social Good Summit held in New York 19-22 September, looking forward to seeing many of our partners and colleagues there.

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Social Media for #SocialGood

September 15, 2010 – 2:29 pm

During the coming UN Week, Mashable and 92Y will be hosting a Social Good Summit in partnership with the UN Foundation.  The aim is to bring  new media and social media worlds into the MDG-focused events, whether it be in person or via webcast,  and to help spread mass awareness and support for [...]

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Great social media use by World Malaria Day

April 26, 2010 – 1:26 pm

Yesterday was World Malaria Day and the campaign has this year been very effective in it’s use of social media.  This is partly due to the very smart move by the UN to establish a social media envoy group, which includes Twitter founder Biz Stone, Bill Gates, Mashable’s Pete Cashmore and many more prominent social [...]

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Innovative, social web ways to do good

April 19, 2010 – 12:16 pm

Mashable today has an excellent post about ‘9 ways to do good‘, it highlights great examples of new means for people to support causes using social media.  Examples range from location based apps through which one can ‘check-in’ and donate to a cause, outsourcing tasks to refugees and crowdsourced microtasks done through smartphones. These 9 [...]

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Social Good on Mashable

June 23, 2009 – 8:31 am

Our favourite social media site, Mashable, is this week profiling charitable initiatives that are maximising social media use .. their first post is about LIVESTRONG, the cancer Foundation founded by Lance Armstrong.
The organization has been using social media in a great manner, from a regularly updated blog, to MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter [...]

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