Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

Just yesterday I read a tweet that called the #nonprofit twitter tag a “cavernous echo chamber.” That dude John Burn [an earlier presenter] was up here saying that ‘Twitter makes it easy to find stuff that pertains to you.’ Now don’t get me wrong, I love you people. That is a huge mistake.” starts around 16:46). “I starts around 4:35).

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AFP Blog

AUGUST 17, 2009

Mobile Citizen Journalism: The Phone As Global Equalizer « MobileBehavior: "iran-mobile-citizenThe Iranian crisis put Twitter in the spotlight as an organizational tool showcasing how the online world could be used to communicate and unite people, despite government censorship.

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Forum One

MAY 27, 2009

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

Digital Protests This session will explore the role that social media plays in protests, through the lens of recent events like Iran and the American health care debate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Digital Protests This session will explore the role that social media plays in protests, through the lens of recent events like Iran and the American health care debate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

The venue, a historic theater with small table seating, made it feel more like a cafe except everyone in the audience had a laptop or hand held device for blogging, taking notes, and tweeting. Jill Foster who I met online first through her blog in 2006 and presented remotely at an event she was organizing along with Mariam Scoble.

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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. Tweets and highlights from this event on Twitter at #AITech.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 18, 2011

Blog: blog.witness.org. Twitter: twitter.com/witnessorg. WITNESS currently utilizes the following social media tools: YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and “Video for Change” (blog). Our most useful social media tool is our blog site, especially for discussing WITNESS’ campaigns and sharing many of our and others videos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

. · Randi Zuckerberg from Facebook, who talked about how social networks are being used for social change, particularly as an organizing tool for local revolutions such as those in Columbia and Iran. Everyone who has Twitter now has a global distribution network.” Tags: guest blogging.

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