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Great reads from around the web on October 28th

Amy Sample Ward

. "As “Government 2.0&# becomes more and more popular, especially here in the Washington area, there seem to be an increasing number of people calling themselves social media or “Gov 2.0″ "Hujambo from Tanzania! How will the Geoweb change and evolve as indigenous peoples begin to participate?

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Great reads from around the web on October 28th

Amy Sample Ward

. "As “Government 2.0&# becomes more and more popular, especially here in the Washington area, there seem to be an increasing number of people calling themselves social media or “Gov 2.0″ "Hujambo from Tanzania! How will the Geoweb change and evolve as indigenous peoples begin to participate?

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Technology & Community: Strategic Options for Building Movements

Amy Sample Ward

How many people hear that word and think it is just as generic as the word community? We have community groups, schools, local leaders and people at every age, interest, and skill level. All those people and groups have just as many different goals, small and large. Have people heard of 350.org What is a movement?

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Twitter As Charitable Giving Spreader: A Meta Analysis

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Right before Thanksgiving , the TweetsGiving effort and Avi Kaplan helped Epic Change raise over $10,000 in 48 hours to build a classroom in Tanzania. As Lucy Bernholz notes, this might be one more example of fundraising on Twitter is less marginal and moving to the middle. I wondered whether or not those results would be replicable ?

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Mapping funding for racial justice: A political imperative

Candid

In our past annual research, we have tracked eight population categories : 1) children and youth; 2) human rights defenders; 3) Indigenous peoples; 4) LGBTQI; 5) migrants and refugees; 6) people with disabilities; 7) sex workers; and 8) women and girls. We are also taking action in how we track and share data.

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Twestival: Here Comes Everyone To Raise Money On Twitter for Charity:Water

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Right before Thanksgiving, the TweetsGiving effort helped Epic Change raise over $10,000 in 48 hours to build a classroom in Tanzania seeking $10 donations. Back in November, I wrote a post " Twitter As Charitable Giving Spreader: A Brief History and Meta Analysis of Fundraising With Twitter." Micro donations using TipJoy.

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