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Some Reflections About Civil Society 2.0 and Why I’m Not On A Plane To Tunisia Right Now

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Youtube blocked access to the offensive video in two of the countries in turmoil, Egypt and Libya , but did not remove the video from its Web site. It is also raising questions about censorship on the Internet. ” Simon Mainwaring also has an insightful post on this topic.

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Why Social Movements Need Stories

Tech Soup

The Arab Spring also demonstrated that storytelling doesn’t need a big budget or tons of editing time to be effective. For myself and other bloggers covering local accounts during that time, if we didn’t actually know someone there, it was stories like these that connected us to the people on the ground.

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