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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. Once this is in place, it is important to understand how the tool can or can't be use to reach that goal, what the limitations are, and how to take a "multi-channel" approach.

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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. They use many more devices, channels, and tools then "regular" people. Ethan Zuckerman recently did an analysis of tweets from Moldova and found this to be true.

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