Amy Sample Ward

JULY 16, 2009

Using Twitter search or other tools, you can watch news and updates about the election in Iran by using #IranElection; or, find interesting people to follow and connect with using #FollowFriday to peruse the recommendations that pile up on Fridays. What do those # mean? There are many opportunities to see hashtags in action!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

As our Industrial Institutions fail to cope and to help people, we are seeing a new model for coping where people are connecting to each other to find networked and personal solutions to problems. . Mission : To do this a new ‘Way-Out” story of self help, of community power and of networks has to become accepted as THE story. .

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Care2

OCTOBER 4, 2011

People have been silenced throughout time by media outlets, governments and authority figures who strive to keep minorities and protestors at bay. Women in Iran and protestors on Wall Street think so. Can social media actually save lives and create a voice? Social media may be changing that across the globe. In the U.S.,

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Tech Soup

JUNE 24, 2013

The leaders in adoption are China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Russia, Nigeria, the Philippines, Brazil, and Mexico. They’ll be voice- or gesture-controlled. FreedomPop is actually a reseller of Clear 4G network bandwidth, like TechSoup donor partner Mobile Beacon. There are now 2.4 The Chinese century is upon us.

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