Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 14, 2009

.)" 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. " Penguin Day Agenda - pd.aspirationtech.org - Are you heading to the NTC this month? ." Will you be in San Francisco on April 25th?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2009

The "is Twitter a strategy or tool debate" was fueled as Twitter got lots of attention (and hype ) as part of the coverage of last week's protests in Moldova. Ivan Boothe points out in his post " The Fire and Food: Why There's No Such Thing As A Twitter Revolution ," the real-time use of Twitter as an organizing tool is a not revolution.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2009

I won't try to speak for them, but I do think they aren't blindly following the latest tech hype and hoping it will change the world — many of them have clear social change strategies. Where it has been getting integrated into social justice organizing, it's largely been outside the United States, in places like Colombia and Egypt.

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