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The Revolution is Twitterfied

Forum One

Concurrently the Obama campaign leveraged every social media tool in the book to engage US citizens, empower them with ways they could help, and ultimately contributed to winning the next presidency. Right now the world is watching the next level of emergent social media and citizen engagement. Protest Iran Election.

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Great reads from around the web on June 16th

Amy Sample Ward

Summer of Social Good by Mashable - "Summer of Social Good is the first large scale online charitable campaign to raise funds strictly online through the power of Social Media and the Internet. Here's a story from the NYTimes addressing just that. Association Jam | Association Management News :: Submit.

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SXSW Nonprofit Picks

Care2

For five days nonprofit campaigners, techies, and social media enthusiasts will gather for one of the largest and most anticipated conferences of the year. Debunking the Myth of Social Media Fundraising March 13 at 12:30 PM. 2009 Iran Election: Women's Revolution? SXSW is just around the corner. No worries though.

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MCON13 Live Blog: Connecting with Millennials (Azita Ardakani, Lovesocial)

NTEN

Azita didn''t grow up thinking she would start a digital media agency (because that didn''t exist). Born in Iran and at age 3 moved to Canada; now in NYC. "I Serendipity, timing, opportunity --> social media happened! Challenges and campaigns "When we came to market, there were 76 causes on Facebook.

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Influence | Forum One: Internet Strategy, Social Media, User Experience and Web Site Development

Forum One

Read More » Online Approaches for Inviting and Collecting Public Input Joe Pringle in Influence 4 Jun 2010 I was invited to present last week at the University of Marylands Human Computer Interaction Labs workshop on Government and Social Media. We also saw some.

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Vote and Comment for ALL these Awesome Nonprofit Panels at SXSW!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March 12-16, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. These ideas inspired the SXSW panel proposal I submitted: Crowdsourcing for Innovative Social Change Social media builds buzz and raises money, but what about real, on-the-ground change?

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Last Chance to Vote for Nonprofit SXSW Panels: Closes September 4th

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

scheduled March 12-16, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. Last year, there was an event called "Social Media for Social Good" organized by Jeff Pulver that prompted quite a rich discussion. on whether social media for fundraising and marketing can effect real on the ground change. .