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Great reads from around the web on April 14th

Amy Sample Ward

PHILANTHROPY 2173: Mapping the social economy - Great blog post on using design for philanthropy. " The DigiActive Guide to Twitter for Activism | DigiActive.org - "Following the recent protests in Moldova, the value of Twitter as a tool for digital activism is more prominent than ever.

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Twitter for Activism Tool VS Strategy Debate and A New Twitter Activism Guide

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Twitter has been used during the G20 protests , election monitoring and crowd-sourcing the location of a torch when it was passing through San Francisco. The recently published The DigiActive Guide to Twitter for Activism (Click here to download the PDF version) offers some mini-case studies organized by objective. The objectives: 1.

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Guest Post by Ivan Boothe: Social change takes more than social media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Submitted by Ivan Boothe, publisher of the Rootwork Blog Over at the NetSquared blog, Joe Solomon provided a great roundup of reasons people might be "jaded about social media for change" and ways they overcome it. One of the comments on Joe's blog post was from Texans Against Hunger. Mad props to them.)

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Mark Pesce at CUA09 - Think Like a Cloud, Make a Storm, Kill the Tower!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He talks about the "Cloud" a word to describe how we're all more closely connected through social networks like Twitter, Facebook, and etc. I came across a study of "hyperconnectedness" about six months, blogged it here. If you want to dive into more details into this condition, see the hyper connectivity blog.

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